United States | News & Politics

3119 readers

438 users here now

Welcome to [email protected], where you can share and converse about the different things happening all over/about the United States.

If you’re interested in participating, please subscribe.

Rules

Be respectful and civil. No racism/bigotry/hateful speech.

Post anything related to the United States.

founded 2 years ago

MODERATORS

[email protected]

146

Silicon Valley Executives Join the Army as Officers. The men will get to skip the usual process of taking a Direct Commissioning Course and won’t need to complete the Army Fitness Test. (gizmodo.com)

submitted 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

19 comments fedilink hide all child comments

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I find this worrying, yet—I’ll play devil’s advocate:

Having CEO-like people in charge of others is not necessarily bad, assuming they’re not in charge of front-line people. The vast majority of military work is logistics and intel. Having some that knows how to accomplish that efficiently isn’t a bad idea.

They 100% will be put in charge of front liners, though.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Executives aren't the ones making companies successful they're usually more hindrance than anything else..

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago

No real disagreement from me. Again, just playing devil’s advocate and assuming an “ideal.” It’s 100% a good boys’ club hire.