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Isn't That...Interesting? [1]
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Date: 2025-06-23
Four tech executives have been sworn into the US Army.
As Lieutenant Colonels.
No boot Camp. No training. Nothing to reinforce that the oath they just took is, you know, AN OATH. As if anyone in this admin cared anyway.
Instead, they'll be ushered in through express training that Army leaders are still hashing out, Col. Dave Butler, a spokesman for the chief of staff of the Army, said in a phone interview with Business Insider.
So the Army is still working out what training they will get, but meanwhile they have rank and presumably pay? And are in the chain of command? They will serve two weeks a year like reservists?
The execs — Shyam Sankar, the chief technology officer of Palantir; Andrew Bosworth, the chief technology officer of Meta; Kevin Weil, the chief product officer at OpenAI; and Bob McGrew, an advisor at Thinking Machines Lab who was formerly the chief research officer for OpenAI — are joining the Army as lieutenant colonels as part of an effort to turbocharge tech innovation and adoption, according to an Army press statement.
Consultancy wasn't good enough?
Apparently not, and this isn't Trump's idea. Even if it does focus on "leaner, meaner, more lethal". And will put a lot more AI into our decision-making.
Don’t blame Donald Trump for this. The program has been in the works for over a year, the brainchild of Brynt Parmeter, the Pentagon’s first chief talent management officer. Parmeter, a former combat soldier who headed veteran support at Walmart before joining the Department of Defense in 2023, had been pondering how to bring experienced technologists into service to update an insufficiently tech-savvy militia when he met Sankar at a conference early last year. The idea, he says, was to create “an Oppenheimer-like situation” where senior executives could serve right away, while keeping their current jobs.
The military-industrial complex is fully complexed.
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