Couple things...

The nerd brigade is reporting for duty. They probably won’t win any push-up contests and might not be sharpshooters.

I've been a nerd since the 80s and I'll have you know I'm a great shot even with my eyes being fucked. Fuck your stereotyping bullshit.

Bosworth said Meta Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg supported his decision to join the Reserve. “There’s a lot of patriotism that has been under the covers that I think is coming to light in the Valley,” he said.

That's not patriotism, that's oligarchs who are utterly dependent upon deregulation to stay oligarchs eagerly kowtowing to the fascist regime in order to curry favor.

The tech reservists will serve for around 120 hours a year. Because of their private-sector status, each will carry the rank of lieutenant colonel.

There will be other dispensations for the technology officers. They will have more flexibility than the average reservist to work remotely and asynchronously, and will be spared basic training.

This pisses me off so much and I hope it makes the military livid too. Most people put their heart and soul into the work they do in basic training and officer training and even break into tears when they receive their new rank. These assholes are gonna take a fitness test and become officers?!?

This type of program has existed for forever in the military. Some other careers that skip basic and get promoted to high ranks on joining are specialized doctors and lawyers. The military needs those types of specialists and they have to compete with the civilian compensation packages to attract people. Colonel pay is really high. Private First class, not so much.

I've been a nerd since the 80s and I'll have you know I'm a great shot even with my eyes being fucked. Fuck your stereotyping bullshit.

They probably meant outside of CS and Battlefield.

So did I.

I took a concealed carry class about 10 years ago with ~30 other people and all 4 instructors made a point of complimenting me on my shooting accuracy, and the guy who ran the class said I was the best shot he'd seen. I used to go shooting with my buddy and his dad out in the back woods, they had an old swing-set frame set up with some bowling pins hung with twine that they would shoot. I got bored shooting the pins so I started shooting the string where it tied around the neck instead. After 8 or 10 of those they got tired of stringing them back up, but what really frustrated them is when I told them I couldn't even see the string, I was just shooting where the it ought to be based on how the pin was hanging. And I was still dropping a pin with every shot.

The funny thing is I can't shoot very well in video games at all, it's just a different skillset and I never played much in the way of shooters (except early stuff like Wolfenstein 3D, Doom, Quake, etc.)

What's the point of that? Don't soldiers work alongside civilian contractors all the time?

Maybe the ability to court-martial them for things non-criminal for civilians.

How much you want to bet they will immediately leverage for their profits before military.