All quiet on the frontal lobe.
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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)?
Are you suggesting this administration gives a sweet flying fuck about rules, logic, or law?
"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.
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.
Nazis following the playbook.
All those men are now enemy combatants
Nothing can go wrong when your military is corporate sponsored. /s
Catch -22 enters the chat
Cyberpunk 2077 enters the chat
Imagine having seen combat and suddenly having to take orders from some coddled millionaire man-child that's cosplaying as commissioned officer
Throwback...
The new reservists will serve for about 120 hours a year, according to the Wall Street Journal, and will have a lot of flexibility to work remotely.
The comments on that page are also good.
FUCK THIS TIMELINE
Great, more PowerPoint soldiering, that'll help.
Edit: And more clueless REMFs.
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.
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.
The worst boot louies brought to you by right-wing DEI
It's always projection with those knobheads.
America gets one step closer to a service aristocracy.
Work hard for 10 years, do a great job, "Sorry, no promotion to Lt Colonel for you, we gave it to Trump's friend."
This is an abomination.
Put it in the pile with the others.
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.
Hey Grok, what is fragging?
Oof.
Ew
I assume they are going to be given the rank of commissar.
Соси хуй, читай газеты, будешь комиссаром.
Suck cock, read the papers, you'll become a commissar.
All ist klar?
Oh-ho!
In another thread about this, people were calling this fake because of the source.
Edit: The source wasn't Gizmodo.
Wired, nypost, and some others in a quick search.
Yeah, not in the sewer mains yet. https://www.wired.com/story/what-lt-col-boz-and-big-techs-enlisted-execs-will-do-in-the-army/
Get used to it. The United States of America has become something we won't recognize.
I don't get it. Why?
their bribes were successful, this is their payback.
Great, so they’re legitimate non-civilian targets.