When I read Tweet About four well -known directors of the Silicon Valley were introduced into the special united army reserve branch, including Meta CTO Andrew “BOZ” Bosworth, I questioned his truth. It is very tough to recognize the truth from satire in 2025, partly due to the social media parties belonging to Bosworth. But it was true. According to Official press releaseThey are now in the army, in particular the 201 unit: Executive Innovation Corps. Boz is now a colonel of Bosworth.
Other modern officials are Kevin Weil, head of the OpenAI product; Bob McGrew, former head of the OPENAI research, who is now advising Miry Murati Thoughtful machine laboratory; And Shyam Sankar, Cto Palantira. These middle -aged technical directors were sworn in their positions wearing camouflage fatigue, as if they just left the military base in Kandahar to join the body that was called in honor of the HTTP status code. (Colonel David Butler, communication advisor to the Chief of Army Staff, told me that their uniforms of clothing were not ready yet.) Branch 201, wrote the army in a press release, is part of the entire military transformation initiative, which “aims to make a slim, smarter and more deadly force.”
Do not blame Donald Trump. The program has been working for over a year, an idea Brown pair metersThe first Pentagon talent management director. Parmeter, a former combat soldier who managed a Walmart support veteran before joining the Defense Department in 2023, wondered how to introduce experienced technologists to service to update the insufficiently knowingly knowing militia technology when he met Sankar at the conference at the beginning of last year. He says that the idea was to create a “situation similar to Oppenheimer”, in which senior management could serve immediately, maintaining their current work.
Both men collaborated with a plan to bring people like, well, Sankar, who was a thunderous cheerleader of the recent army over the valley, saying that the USA is in “”Undeclared emergency“It requires military rehaul. he wrote about The upcoming program in October last year Sankar swore “first in the queue”.
In the sign that there is no longer taboo in the valley to face the fact that his works go hand in hand with strengthening of mortal strength in the army, the program was fast and is working now. “Ten years ago it would probably cancel me,” Weil told me. “This is a much better state of the world in which people look at it and go away:” Oh, wow, it is important. Freedom is not free. “
Four modern officers are full members of the army reserve. However, unlike other reservists, they will not be obliged to undergo basic training, although after the introduction they will undergo less addictive condition and shooting training. They will also have flexibility to spend some of the about 120 annual hours to remotely, and the advantages not offered to other reservists.
The army also says that these people will not be sent to the battle, so they will not risk their lives in potential theaters of the war in Iran, Greenland or the center of Los Angeles in California. Their mission is to exploit their undeniable specialist knowledge to learn their colleagues and superiors in the army, how to exploit the latest technologies for performance and fatal strength.
It can be assumed that the army would conduct a broadly extensive study of specific talents required for this pilot program and pulled these people out of an open call for the best candidates. It didn’t happen. Sankar helped recruit the other three future officers – all the man who seems to satisfy with the intention or coincidence Anti-Dei Bent Today’s army – and everyone accepted. According to Butler: “Colonel Sankar said:” I want to wear a uniform. And I have three other guys ready to go with me. ” Weil confirms that he joined Sankar. (Parmeter told me that because it is a pilot program with an unknown result, the appropriate process was appropriate).