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.
https://gizmodo.com/silicon-valley-execs-join-the-army-as-officers-but-wont-have-to-attend-boot-camp-2000617223
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Pandantic@midwest.social · 64 pts · 1y
Anyone else find this extremely worrying?
Montagge@lemmy.zip · 25 pts · 1y
You definitely should be
homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world · 20 pts · 1y
It’s fucking terrifying
Someonelol@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 5 pts · 1y
Sounds like those people are swearing fealty to their respective corporations and not the Constitution.
solsangraal@lemmy.zip · 52 pts · 1y
WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.world · 42 pts · 1y
This Is the fascist fusion of corporation and state.
Technofascist oligarchs are being given military positions to convert the military and surveillance state into a big brother grade domestic secret police. I'm sure they'll be given command over ICE and DOGE by end of year.
solsangraal@lemmy.zip · 10 pts · 1y
Botzo@lemmy.world · 34 pts · 1y
This feels like cosplay + "you could just do ..." energy that will undoubtedly funnel money straight back to these companies.
Bonus bosworth points
tomatolung@sopuli.xyz · 11 pts · 1y
For those who have read the Galaxy's Edge series, I can only think of the appointees (aka 'Points). Political appointed officer who often end up getting the legionaries killed and lack the combat prowess/skill to be in the officer position they exercise.
Realistically we have many other direct commission officers such as the medical, engineers, legal, etc. What's really different here is they are not requiring the full 5 week Direct commission officer basic course .
grue@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 1y
I'm just thinking about how various European militaries used to give dipshit aristocrats officer commissions back in the day, until they got curb-stomped by Napoleon or whoever and figured out it wasn't such a great idea.
Madison420@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 1y
Not generally given, bought. You used to buy your commission in the military, and yes it went exactly as you'd think buying merit goes.
AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 1y
Us Army Inc.
sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 10 pts · 1y
Get ready for 90-10 style reviews every month or quarter, and then these idiot tech bros being confused they can't just fire people in the military for no goddamned reason.
atomicbocks@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 1y
I am sure they can find a reason to discharge people.
Awkwardly_Frank@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 1y
They are the very model of modern major generals!
Saganaki@lemmy.zip · -10 pts · 1y
I find this worrying, yet—I’ll play devil’s advocate:
Having CEO-like people in charge of others is not necessarily bad, assuming they’re not in charge of front-line people. The vast majority of military work is logistics and intel. Having some that knows how to accomplish that efficiently isn’t a bad idea.
They 100% will be put in charge of front liners, though.
Madison420@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 1y
Executives aren't the ones making companies successful they're usually more hindrance than anything else..
Saganaki@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 1y
No real disagreement from me. Again, just playing devil’s advocate and assuming an “ideal.” It’s 100% a good boys’ club hire.