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Optional to politics @lemmy.world • 1 day 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.

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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.

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Optional to politics @lemmy.world • 1 day ago
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Silicon Valley Execs Join the Army as Officers (But Won't Have to Attend Boot Camp)
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The tech industry is fully on board, but the rank and file won't have to do time as grunts.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/31656164

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  • @bieren@lemmy.zip
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    5•3 hours ago

    Ok. So here’s your new CO. His name is musk. Elon musk. He has 0 military experience or training. And you are being deployed next week. Go get em tiger.

  • @corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca
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    8•4 hours ago

    so the guy who hates soldiers and avoided obligatory service with a shameless medical issue is now injecting suits into it in a further act of denigration.

    Sad expectation, unfortunately.

  • @phutatorius@lemmy.zip
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    Great, more PowerPoint soldiering, that’ll help.

    • @InternetCitizen2@lemmy.world
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      Well, on the plus side, if you do get conscripted you might be able to intimidate your officer, as they will be an unfit nerd and not a warrior. Fragging no longer needed.

  • @Srh@lemmy.world
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    I assume they are going to be given the rank of commissar.

    • OptionalOP
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      All ist klar?

  • @SnarkoPolo@lemmy.world
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    Get used to it. The United States of America has become something we won’t recognize.

  • @WizardofFrobozz@lemmy.ca
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    Great, so they’re legitimate non-civilian targets.

  • @crystalmerchant@lemmy.world
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    I don’t get it. Why?

    • OptionalOP
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      their bribes were successful, this is their payback.

  • TachyonTele
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    63•1 day ago

    All quiet on the frontal lobe.

  • @GuyFawkes@midwest.social
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    16•23 hours ago

    FUCK THIS TIMELINE

  • @Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world
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    "They’ll work on helping the Army acquire more commercial tech, though it’s not clear how conflict-of-interest issues will be enforced, given the fact that the people all work for companies that would conceivably be selling their wares to the military. "

    They’re doing it for the corruption. Instead of the Army picking the best technology, the CTO of Palantir will be ordering the Palantir contracts.

    Next step is for Trump to fire the Generals and replace them with Maga CEO’s.

    • OptionalOP
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      Today’s joke, tomorrow’s realit- wait, that’s basically what they’re doing now. I’m sure when the Palantir slug disagrees with the General, it’s going to the slug.

  • @meme_historian@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    Imagine having seen combat and suddenly having to take orders from some coddled millionaire man-child that’s cosplaying as commissioned officer

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      2•5 hours ago

    • @Tetragrade@leminal.space
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      Throwback…

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      deleted by creator

  • @dhork@lemmy.world
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    As Task & Purpose notes, the men will get to skip the usual process of taking a Direct Commissioning Course at Fort Benning, Georgia, and they won’t need to complete the Army Fitness Test.

    Isn’t one of the stated reasons behind restricting trans people and women in certain roles that they would have to change the fitness standards (even though that’s a lie)?

    • OptionalOP
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      Are you suggesting this administration gives a sweet flying fuck about rules, logic, or law?

  • theprogressivist
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    32•1 day ago

    Nothing can go wrong when your military is corporate sponsored. /s

    • @Snowclone@lemmy.world
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      13•1 day ago

      Catch -22 enters the chat

    • @AnarchoEngineer@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      8•1 day ago

      Cyberpunk 2077 enters the chat

  • @PunkRockSportsFan
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    31•1 day ago

    Nazis following the playbook.

    All those men are now enemy combatants

  • @Revan343@lemmy.ca
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    Hey Grok, what is fragging?

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