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The Army’s not sure what its new ‘Executive Innovation Corps’ will actually do

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- Executive Producers: Wha... Hey!
- I’m an executive husband in my household. As a matter of fact, I’m the CEO of husbands at home. There isn’t a higher ranking husband than me in my place of residence.
About 18 months ago, the defense secretary’s office floated the idea to the services
Presumably Hegseth had some idea, since it's his office that pushed the idea. Also, since he personally has been an Army reservist, I kind of imagine that this is a personal Pete Hegseth idea.
We have a term here in Brazil, for appointed "job" positions that seem to have no responsibilities and are basically a way for rich people to place their relatives and such in places close to power:
Aspone. Assessor de Porra Nenhuma. Translates to like "Advisor of Fucking Nothing"
- In argentina we call them ñoquis. Which is a food that we traditionally ate on the 29th of each month. The joke being that these people show up once per month at the end for their paycheck and do nothing the rest of the days
It literally just sounds like a department for nepo hires and fake promotions.
you'd think they would know this before they start minting FUCKING LT COL's OUT OF TECHBROS.
What in the actual fuck.
Probably to grant contracts as rewards to trump donor companies?
Corporate military, For their new towns.
One thing that makes Western militaries so deadly is their usage of merit vs social position to gain leadership. Oops. I mean "was."
"The new members of Detachment 201: The Army’s Executive Innovation Corps include Shyam Shankar, Palantir’s chief technology officer; Andrew Bosworth, Meta’s CTO; Kevin Weil, OpenAI’s chief product officer; and Bob McGrew, an advisor at Thinking Machines Lab and OpenAI’s former chief research officer. "
Dream team
Probably help more "efficiently" surveil and bomb more Gazans and Iranians. Genocide is big business and now they get medals and free healthcare for it.

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