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| Subject: 'It took him a long time to die': drone operator traumatised by killing missions Sun Oct 27, 2013 2:17 am | |
| A former US Air Force drone operator has described how he is haunted by his time as a ''remote killer'' functioning in ''zombie mode'' in missions over Afghanistan and Iraq that claimed more than 1600 lives.
Brandon Bryant, a retired airman who operated remote-controlled Predator aircraft from US bases in Nevada and New Mexico, offered a rare military insider's perspective on the US drone program in GQ magazine.
He described monitoring a drone strike on a mud compound in Afghanistan and seeing the figure of what he was certain was a child just before it was struck by a Hellfire missile.
When he expressed those concerns to an intelligence observer overseeing the operation, the response came back: ''Per the review, it's a dog.''
Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/world/it-took-him-a-long-time-to-die-drone-operator-traumatised-by-killing-missions-20131025-2w75x.html#ixzz2ittWR4w8 |
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