Mission Creeps: The Sinister Rise of US Army Detachment 201
The United States Army has officially launched “Detachment 201,” a first-of-its-kind ‘partnership’ with executives from Big Tech firms Palantir, Meta, and OpenAI.
This is the logical evolution of those ‘Civil Affairs’ Battalions that have been meddling with impunity on US soil since the early 1980’s practicing not only their propaganda but political control. Most of us who’ve had dealings with these kind of kool-aid peddling spooks are not fond of the experience. - DD
The day before Donald Trump’s 250th anniversary parade for the U.S. Army, the Army swore in four Silicon Valley executives as Army Reserve lieutenant colonels as part of their new “Detachment 201: The Army’s Executive Innovation Corps.” The Army said the program was “designed to fuse cutting-edge tech expertise with military innovation.”
The new Army Reserve lieutenant colonels are Shyam Sankar, chief technology officer for Palantir; Andrew Bosworth, chief technology officer for Meta; Kevin Weil, chief product officer for OpenAI; and Bob McGrew, advisor at Thinking Machines Lab and former chief research officer for OpenAI.
The rank of lieutenant colonel is generally awarded to officers in their second decade of military service. The position typically commands between several hundred soldiers, but the tech executives are not expected to command traditional formations.
The Army has said Detachment 201 is focused on recruiting Big Tech executives to serve part-time in the Army Reserve as advisors on “targeted projects” to help “guide rapid and scalable tech solutions to complex problems.” Detachment 201 is itself part of a broader effort known as the Army Transformation Initiative, which seeks to make the Army “leaner, smarter, and more lethal.”
Col. Dave Butler said the four executives will receive two weeks of online and in-person training at Fort Benning, Georgia. Their training will focus on physical fitness, marksmanship, and basic soldier tasks. They will not participate in the Army’s traditional full six-week Direct Commissioning Course at Fort Benning.
While Andrew Bosworth claimed 201 was a reference to an HTTP coding command that indicates the creation of…
Back in the 1980's I had to attend a required Ethics Lecture given by a chaplain. Never had seen the guy before and I knew all the chaplains in our brigade. They said he was from a reserve Civil Affairs BN. Didn't think much of it. Stuffy barely air-conditioned hall with a rumbling air handler. The kind that lulls you to sleep instantly, but I had a lot of coffee on board.
Two minutes in he starts in on the evils of the NRA and how it is a 'neo-nazi' organization. How we are expected to assist disarming the public if required, etc. I look around to see others reactions. Most of the hundred or so NCOs and officers there are indeed lulled, nodding and trying to stay awake. Only one or two were reacting like I was to this garbage. And this was the REAGAN army. That was the day I awakened.
Two weeks later I ran into this captain at a 7-11 off post. Only because obligated I gave a, "Good morning sir."
He turned around and glared. Not wearing Cross or Captain's bars but SFC stripes. The whole thing was a psyop. This was when I learned what the Civ Aff spook shop was. And they are just the tip of the iceberg of scary.
Getting closer for this administration to actually deserve the “fascist” title. Maybe under an honest administration in the future these new officers could be court-martialed and tried under UCMJ rules. Treason gets you hung. Keep em honorable