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>>amrrs+(OP)
Just jumping right in as a Lt Col? Is there a lot of precedent for that? I know that the armed forces have worked with a lot of scientists before, like in the Manhattan Project, but my understanding is that most of them remained civilians.

>>LargeW+S2
There is a long history of direct commission officers <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Direct_commission_officer> in the military.