Drone Pilots Rewarded With Bravery Medals -- TYT

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"The Pentagon is considering awarding a Distinguished Warfare Medal to drone pilots who work on military bases often far removed from the battlefield. . . ." Cenk Uygur discusses this story and why he disagrees with the idea of giving drone pilots bravery medals.
Glenn Greenwald's Article on Salon:
http://www.salon.com/2012/07/10/bravery_and_drone_pilots/
deathcowsays...

I have no doubt that killing people like this and watching their glowing white (infrared cam) body parts get spread over a 400 sq ft area will mess (some of) these pilots up for life!! Just watching the videos alone is enough to make me freaked out.

Yogisays...

>> ^deathcow:

I have no doubt that killing people like this and watching their glowing white (infrared cam) body parts get spread over a 400 sq ft area will mess (some of) these pilots up for life!! Just watching the videos alone is enough to make me freaked out.


I was thinking about this the other day. You've of course heard stories of the complete separation from their victims when you talk about bombadiers. I was wondering if stationing Drone pilots thousands of miles from their targets does the same thing. Does it become a video game, just sprites on a screen that don't hold any meaning. It's something to think about but I'm not so sure because as our technology has advanced to keep the "pilots" away from the entire battlefield, the optics has advanced to bring the close up images of the battlefield right to them. It must be an odd feeling, I can't imagine.

Also the people who flew those planes into the World Trade Center are braver than these Drone Pilots. So what the fuck does that say about bravery?

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