Silicon Valley Executives Join the Army as Officers. The men will get to skip the usual process of taking a Direct Commissioning Course and won’t need to complete the Army Fitness Test.

@Davriellelouna@lemmy.world · edit-2 2 days ago

Silicon Valley Executives Join the Army as Officers. The men will get to skip the usual process of taking a Direct Commissioning Course and won’t need to complete the Army Fitness Test.

@Botzo@lemmy.world · 2 days ago

The Army said in a press release that the four executives are Shyam Sankar, CTO at Palantir; Andrew Bosworth, CTO at Meta; Kevin Weil, Chief Product Officer of OpenAI; and Bob McGrew, an advisor at Thinking Machines Lab and former Chief Research Officer for OpenAI.

The four men are being commissioned at the high rank of lieutenant colonel as part of a program called Detachment 201: The Army’s Executive Innovation Corps.

This feels like cosplay + “you could just do …” energy that will undoubtedly funnel money straight back to these companies.

Bonus bosworth points

Silicon Valley Executives Join the Army as Officers. The men will get to skip the usual process of taking a Direct Commissioning Course and won’t need to complete the Army Fitness Test.

Silicon Valley Executives Join the Army as Officers. The men will get to skip the usual process of taking a Direct Commissioning Course and won’t need to complete the Army Fitness Test.

Silicon Valley Execs Join the Army as Officers (But Won't Have to Attend Boot Camp)