You can read it a tweet Four notable Silicon Valley executives were inducted by a United States Army Reserve special detachment, including Meta’s CTO Andrew “Boz” Bosworth, it was a question of veracity. Due to social media websites owned by Bosworth, it is difficult in 2025 to tell the difference between truth and satire. However, it was actually true. It is true that official press releaseNow they are in the Army. Specifically, the Executive Innovation Corps Detachment. Boz is now lieutenant colonel Bosworth.
Kevin Weil is OpenAI’s Head of Product; Bob McGrew was a former OpenAI Research head. now advising Mira Murati’s company Thinking Machines LabShyam, Sankar was the CTO for Palantir. The middle-aged technologists were inducted into their positions wearing camo, like they’d just walked off an Army base from Kandahar. Their corps is named for the HTTP status code. The dress uniforms are not ready, according to Colonel David Butler. In a recent press release the Army said that Detachment-201 is a part of military-wide initiative for transformation. “aims to make the force leaner, smarter, and more lethal.”
Donald Trump shouldn’t be blamed for it. The idea for the program began over a month ago, and was the creation of Brynt ParmeterThe Pentagon has appointed its first Chief Talent Management Officer. Parmeter was pondering ways to recruit experienced technologists to help update a militia that was not sufficiently tech-savvy when he first met Sankar, at an early year conference. Sankar says that the goal was to build a team of experienced technologists who could update an insufficiently tech-savvy militia. “an Oppenheimer-like situation” Where senior executives are able to serve as soon as possible, and still keep their job.
They both worked on a plan that would bring people in like Sankar. Sankar is a loud advocate of Valley’s new embrace of the Military, declaring the US to be in “undeclared state of emergencyIt is this “that requires a technology-led military revamp.” The Wall Street Journal wrote about Sankar, in his October 2010 program announcement, vowed that he would be a part of the program. “first in line.”
The program has been accelerated and now is in operation. This shows that the Valley no longer views it as taboo to admit that the creations of the Valley go along with increasing the deadly force within the military. “Ten years ago this probably would have gotten me canceled,” Weil told me. “It’s a much better state of the world where people look at this and go, ‘Oh, wow, this is important. Freedom is not free.'”
Four new officers have been inducted into the Army Reserve. They will, unlike other reservists however, not have to go through basic training. However, after their induction, they may be subjected to less intensive fitness and shooting instruction. Other reservists are not allowed to use some of their approximately 120 annual working hours remotely.
They will also not risk their lives on potential battlefields in Iran or Greenland. Or in downtown Los Angeles. The mission of these men is to share their expertise with their military colleagues to help them use the latest technologies efficiently. deadly force.
You would think that the Army had done a thorough study on the talents needed for this program, and then selected the most qualified candidates from an open recruitment call. This did not occur. Sankar helped recruit the other three future officers—all male, which by intention or coincidence seems to satisfy the anti-DEI bent of today’s military—and they all accepted. Butler says that. “Lieutenant colonel Sankar said ‘I want to wear the uniform. And I have three other guys willing to go with me.'” Weil confirms he was asked to join by Sankar. Parmeter told me that a closed procedure was necessary because this program is a test with unknown outcomes.
