U.S. Drone Pilot: 'Did We Just Kill A Kid?'
Drone pilots at Holloman Air Force Base in New Mexico.
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'Did We Just Kill A Kid?' — Six Words That Ended A US Drone Pilot's Career
Der Spiegel
The New Mexico desert gets blistering hot, but inside the small windowless container where Brandon Bryant worked as a drone operator for the U.S. Air Force it stays a cool 63 degrees all year long. Sixty-three finger numbing degrees and Bryant describes sitting with a group of other pilots looking at more than a dozen computer monitors. The crew are directing drones over Afghanistan 6,250 miles away and the screens jump with a two to five second delay, as infrared video sent from the UAVs whips through the air to New Mexico.
When the order to fire on a target arrives, Bryant paints the roof of a hut with the laser that will guide in a Hellfire missile fired by the pilot beside him.
"These moments are like in slow motion," he says to Abé. No doubt, because on this occasion Bryant says a child walked from behind the building at the last second.
Too late for him to do anything else but ask the other pilot, "Did we just kill a kid?"
"Yeah, I guess that was a kid," the pilot replied.
"Was that a kid?" they wrote into a chat window on the monitor.
Then, someone they didn't know answered, someone sitting in a military command center somewhere in the world who had observed their attack. "No. That was a dog," the person wrote.
They reviewed the scene on video. A dog on two legs?
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Reader Comments (18)
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"History They Don't Teach You In School Part 2"
I fiind it quite sickening that a good number of well intentioned Americans are now begging for their rights to be stolen from them by the very same people that screw them left right and center every chance they get.
Show any signs of morals or a conscience, and you're immediately deemed as being no longer of any use. The government doesn't need morally conscience people. It needs sociopathic monsters, willing to do anything they're told to do, or kill anyone they're told to kill. Especially now, since they're ramping up the whole gun ban deal, they'll need plenty of foot soldiers who are willing to make examples out of those that refuse to hand over their firearms.
http://www.peterjamesx.com/Docs%202013/Liverpool%20Pathway.htm
The same people whom are we think fighting for democracy, committing the same horrific crime against innocent people of North Pakistan/South Afghanistan. As you can see the terrorist are operating exactly the same on the ground (Taliban) on the air. According to this video, (double tapping) mentioned at 4:00 where Taliban uses the same tactics against innocent people. 1st blast and then when people try to help the injured from the blast another one occur in the same area.
Do remember that the same people were supported by US and Pakistan Government in the 80s against Russian Red Army invasion.
deja vu all over again in Syria is now where Afghanistan was in 80s. Turkey is where Pakistan was in 80s and the US gov. is the same BIG Zionist Satan.
Not that it isn't a tragedy, but those 20 kids in Sandy Hook are an excellent excuse for adjusting the 2nd Amendment.
See the Hypocrisy?
Source: militarytimes. com/news/2012/12/marine-taliban-kids-120312w/
We are TOLD we are hated for OUR Freedom's, Remember that when a U.S. Soldier returns and is Arrested and Forced into a Mental Evaluation because of sometime he said on the Internet. Sure he fought for His and Your Freedom's? Unless American's review how Nazi Germany came to power and each step that was taken. That it is running parallel with Modern Day event's. Including the Israeli trained POLICE STATE.
American's are SUCKERS. Why should Obama care about American Children when he Murdered over 200 in Afghanistan last year alone. This is the Fool they gave a Peace Award to. We aren't hated for our Freedoms because we aren't free to bomb 7-8 We aren't even at war with let alone to use CHILDREN as a Target. Where are the WAR CRIMES CHARGES!
Congress Sucks!
Except in violation of the Geneva "Rules of War" Obama's Drone Teams also bomb Emergency Aid Workers and Funeral's too! According to the Geneva Rules of War, an Injured Soldier or Combatant is considered "Out of the Conflict." Not a continued target. Imagine the horror of Bombing Funeral's where in the first place the CIA said that they couldn't readily ID who was the Target, but if they MISSED then then Bomb the Funeral's taking out FAMILY, FRIENDS, RELIGIOUS Person's conducting the Funeral and of course More Children.
This is like when they Obama, Murdered an American Citizen with (ZERO PROOF OF GUILT) Then 2 Weeks later they Murdered his Son in yet another Drone Attack. These are WAR CRIMES! This is also TREASON too.
In fact, Today it is Tantamount to Treason as the U.S. Government in both Arming and Supplying all AID to the very Al Qaeda they have USED in this FAKE (WAR ON TERROR) while protecting their Opium Field's in Afghanistan where in 2001 the Taliban had all but eradicated the entire Opium fields by fire. But in Syria today, They are Arming and Paying and supplying the Electronics needed for these Al Qaeda FSA/Rebel Terrorist the equipment to Film their War Crimes.
This is also why the Internet went down in Syria to stop their videos from coming out then suddenly the U.S. Government then wanted to distance themselves from their OWN paid terrorist's. Of course how else defeat someone, Hire Arab's and Muslim's to kill Arab's and Muslim's.. Right? After all, If Congress wont declare War then Obama will find a way around our U.S. Constitution. I wish people could see what a Dictator he is. Sadly he is my cousin too. FAIL!
As Obama build's his legacy, He will not be known for the Peace Award he was given, no... He will be remembered as worse then Bush. Sure Bush killed a 1,000,000 in Iraq over a Lie, but Obama is bombing people in 7 to 8 Countries now and soon will have U.S. Troop's in 35 African countries too.
The only good new's is that FINALLY, yes FINALLY Russia is steeping up to the plate in Syria and has repeated 3 times that Syria is NOT going to be another Libya. Look at all the countries the U.S. has sent Billions of dollars to and not one of them is the thriving Democracy they said it would be. In fact it is just the Opposite Today.
People in Iraq still don't have Water, Power or Sewer out of all the infrastructure the U.S. Blew up in Obama's War there. Trying to extend the deadline of the SOFA Agreement's pull-out and now has sent 3000 more US Soldiers back in. The Drones never left and the Iraqi Government has been pissed too. No wonder they are turning to Russia and Iran. Ya Think!
As a U.S. Citizen I demand that the War Crimes start and those GUILTY should HANG!
Nothing will happen, because our Presidenet is Half Black.
Sadly, there are not 10 sets of balls in Congress.
http://www.zerohedge.com/contributed/2013-01-27/obama-end-football
To which I say take away his basketball...
Now about that basketball...
Obama Needed 12 Stitches After Getting Whacked in the Lip
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/president-obama-injured-basketball-game-1...
And what about those video games he plays with drones?