HUNDREDS OF DRONE OPERATORS QUIT AIR FORCE
HUNDREDS OF DRONE OPERATORS QUIT AIR FORCE
“We didn’t even really know who we were firing at.”
Posted by Dr Stuart Jeanne Bramhall on January 26, 2015
“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.”
http://https://www.youtube.com/watch?x-yt-ts=1421914688&v=lQOv7xabARA&x-yt-cl=84503534
