Should make them go through basic.
Make them go through BUD/S.
BUD/S /s.
US Army Appoints Palantir, Meta, OpenAI Execs as Lt. Colonels
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#12> The Palantir executive pointed to “exploding pagers and long-distance drone strikes from shipping containers” as attacks which “prove that technology has once again changed the battlefield,” and that “our military has to change with it.” That's not Palantir's market segment.
Whenever I see that guy in the headlines, he's trying to pump the stock by making nebulous threatening statements. Can't wait for this era of public persona CEOs to be over, with the most egregious examples of them stuck in prison for fraud.
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#13Maybe they'll get shipped to Iran.
They’ll be shipping the drone swarm strategy against Iran from safely under a mountain in CONUS.
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#14Genuinely curious what legal waivers they’ve been afforded, since generally speaking “holding a decision-making position in the part of the uniformed services you also sell to” is very much adjacent to profiteering and disturbingly in the vicinity to honest services fraud. How do you disentangle private interests from the public good, even if these guys are operating in good faith?
Also, give a brief thought to those troops who signed on for their full hitch to defend their country and get to watch a handful of politically-connected billionaires leapfrog their way into custom-built field grade slots without having to attend basic or OCS, or even pass APFT.
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#15Grayzone is an extremely unreliable source which frequently publishes false stories with an anti-US bent [1][2]. The past discussion [3] has a WSJ link which should be preferred over this.
[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Grayzone
[2]: https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2024/06/02/grayzon...
Re: US Army Appoints Palantir, Meta, OpenAI Execs as Lt. Colonels
#16This seems a little weird to me, but direct commissions like this are pretty common for professionals like lawyers, clergy, and doctors.
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#17I had to check if this was an April Fools joke
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#18"If you are not a libertarian at twenty, you have no heart, and if you’re not a state nationalist at forty, you have no brain"
- Benito Friedman
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#19Does this mean if you’re under them in the org chart you are a troop?
Re: US Army Appoints Palantir, Meta, OpenAI Execs as Lt. Colonels
#20Should make them go through basic.
My understanding is that there's a much shorter, simpler form of "basic training" for folks like this. The military bands, for instance, use it. I think the idea is that they can say that they "went through basic just like everyone else." But there might only be one early morning hike.