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>>aspenm+(OP)
They are part time and this is just another revolving door between the military and industry. They are literally there to sell their products (and brag about "having served").

What are other nepotistic initiatives?

https://www.nationaldefensemagazine.org/articles/2024/10/10/...

"The Army in March 2021 awarded Microsoft a 10-year contract worth up to $21.9 billion for IVAS, but the initial version of the system experienced technical difficulties with a number of soldiers experiencing dizziness, headaches or nausea after wearing the goggles."

>>bgwalt+Bf1
Long ago the British Army used to sell commissions. A form of highly institutionalalized corruption. Mostly about social status.

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

Maybe it's going to be a system for allowing tech companies to deploy their personal defense battalion against riots?

>>pjc50+3f2
Notably, it was not formally possible to buy a commission in the British Navy. This is because the British Empire was an island and so their Navy actually mattered and couldn’t be lead by a bunch of idiots with vanity titles.

>>bee_ri+Vl2
Before the Royal Navy was professionalized, there were plenty of officers who were mostly useless. Rich people in high society used connections and favors to get the role, and this gave them higher standing in society. In fact, it was kind of the point: "gentlemen" were expected not to have a profession, as that would lower their social standing. They were just supposed to sit around being wealthy, and at some point lead troops into battle.

It was only at the end of the 17th century that Samuel Pepys introduced the officers apprenticeship, which of course, was mostly open to (again) high-born kids and people who got favors from the crown, but at least they had to have years of experience first and pass an exam. So the Royal Navy Officers were still literally nepo babies.