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As former enlisted myself, I don't understand why they need to be in the military to serve as advisors. No one's going to treat them like real LTCs anyway (outw
by djeastm 1y ago
As former enlisted myself, I don't understand why they need to be in the military to serve as advisors. No one's going to treat them like real LTCs anyway (outwardly they will, of course, but not with the same respect).
- snerbles 1y agoThat also strikes me as odd. When I was deployed, we had plenty of contractors/DOD civilians to handle various technical things, and to help maintain continuity while the rest of us rotated in and out of the theater. They didn't need to be commissioned. If these execs were experienced engineers that needed to be embedded in a unit in the field, maybe, and definitely not at O-5. Usually these sorts of urgently-needed experts become instructors and teach troops the specific technical skills without the need for being enlisted/commissioned/warrant themselves. Someone more familiar with the political games inside the Pentagon will better understand this decision.
- ericrosedev 1y agoContractors down range used to have something like a company logo or something as their rank, you could always tell because it would be some guy with a gut and long hair in fatigues with a weird rank. Give them that and let them feel like soldiers, not an oak leaf
- UncleEntity 1y agoI was a contractor "down range" and the only dress code we had was no shorts, no open-toed shoes. The only time anyone would mess with us was at the chow hall if we didn't take off our hats or didn't have our helemts/flak jackets during alerts and then they just wouldn't let us inside unless we went to get them. Other than that they wouldn't bother us unless we were blatantly ignoring air raid sirens or smoking somewhere we shouldn't be. When outside the wire we would, of course, follow the directions of the army escorts because they were unequivocally in charge. The only time I can remember anyone chastising us was because we were getting overly aggressive in traffic up in the Kurdish region and there was an incident the previous day where some mayor's son had his engine block shot out so they were like, "you guys need to cut that shit out, these are our allies up here".
- lazyasciiart 1y agoIt’s probably a fun ego boost for the execs involved. And it makes them subject to following orders, to military jail for not obeying, etc, which is presumably a nice thing to have in your back pocket when managing egostistic jerks.
- snerbles 1y agoA Lieutenant Colonel in an advisory role would have to engage in an astoundingly epic screwup to court-martialed under the UCMJ. They'll be counseled behind closed doors long before getting formally charged with Article 90 or 92. An Article 88 (or 133!) case involving these guys would be a really funny scandal, though.
- bee_rider 1y agoIs this just aristocrats buying commissions, but for tech nerds?
- sieabahlpark 1y ago[dead]
- VectorLock 1y agoGet those sweet "Veteran" plates.
- Bender 1y agoGet those sweet "Veteran" plates. In my state that only requires a DD-214 with honorable discharge and $50.
- EPWN3D 1y agoIt's an ego trip. That's all.
- scotty79 1y agoIt's kind of weird how getting owned by the state might be ego boost for those people.
- krapp 1y agoThese are probably the kind of tacticool dork-ass losers who worship ancient Sparta and Rome. They want to be strong men created by hard times. They won't actually suffer so much as a hangnail, of course, but inside their heads they're kicking Persians down the well all day every day.
- CoastalCoder 1y agoI'm guessing it's vaguely related to the "stolen valor" dynamic.
- KaiserPro 1y agoIn Boz I can't think of anyone less suited to the task. At every stage of the RL expansion there has been a stunning lack of both solid direction and attention to detail. Not to mention piss poor logistics. The default position for anything in meta/facebook is to just throw people at the problem. Which I suppose is a good match for a stereotypical view of the army.
- 1oooqooq 1y ago> The default position for anything in meta/facebook is to just throw people at the problem sounds like a perfect match for the military
- closewith 1y agoPossibly to subject them to military law and therefore exert significantly more control over their commissioned period.
- ludicrousdispla 1y agoI wonder which vaccines they'll be required to take and whether they'll be subjected to drug testing :)
- tclancy 1y agoBecause this is a different country now. I imagine someone who lived under a military dictatorship would not be shocked by this new approach.
- paulddraper 1y agoYour comment doesn’t really make sense. It’s too late to edit, but it could use significantly improve clarity/elaboration.