All quiet on the frontal lobe.

FUCK THIS TIMELINE

Imagine having seen combat and suddenly having to take orders from some coddled millionaire man-child that’s cosplaying as commissioned officer

"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.

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)?

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

Nazis following the playbook.

All those men are now enemy combatants

Oof.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fragging

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.

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The comments on that page are also good.

So the Roman Empire is selling military appointments to the highest bidder again. Oh joy of joys.

The worst boot louies brought to you by right-wing DEI

America gets one step closer to a service aristocracy.

This is an abomination.

Put it in the pile with the others.

Hey Grok, what is fragging?