January 26, 2015
“We didn’t even really know who we were firing at.”
The traumatic nature of their work is leading drone operators to quit the Air Force by the hundreds.
In the following video, former senior drone operator Brandon Bryant expresses deep regret for the six years he spent with the US drone program between 2005 and 2011. It especially bothered him that he was expected to fire on targets without being clear of their identifies: “We didn’t even really know who we were firing at.”
Last November the human rights group Reprieve published a study indicating attempts to kill 41 alleged terrorists in Pakistan and Yemen resulted in more than 1100 civilian deaths.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lQOv7xabARA
Source: http://www.veteranstoday.com/2015/01/26/hundreds-of-drone-operators-quit-air-force/
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This is good news, because I've been thinking of applying for a job there. Seems like they have plenty of vacant slots now. ;)
I can't sit here and wait for fictious aliens to save this planet from the fascists. I have to do something as well!
Or, as they used to say: What if they gave a war and nobody came?
"..............as long as man continues to be ruthless destroyer of all lower living beings , he will never know health and peace. For as long as men massacre animals , they will kill each other "............Pythagoras
This is so sad. Isn't droning people illegal?
It should be, but I think it depends on country....Americans should share this awareness, most of ordinary people don't know that this is done in their and their's country name