So the US government already had backdoors to all these companies.

This is just the Trump admin giving some bourgeoisie a military pension and benefits without actually having to do anything.

Oh cool, we’re at that stage of open fascism where the state and private industry amalgamate into an unholy blob.

Not even full colonels? Guess money can’t buy everything

In a slightly more just society, they’d be appointed to the military and immediately court marshalled.

Calling your private military Detachment 201 is pretty good at least

Literally stolen valor lmao

private-sector know-how

Lmao know how to what, lay off a bunch of people and collect a fat bonus? Read someone else’s slide deck? Get Luigi’d?

President Trump, we must let private equity get involved in the US army.

legitimate targets the lot of them

I had to do a double take to see if this was The Onion

Just helping

Ah, the old Reverse-McNamara