Is there any videos on the experience and psychology of attack drone operators? Do they think of themselves as cowards? I think they represent a new type of disconnect in the modern world between the soldier and the war itself. They’re the first active combatants that have literally no risk whatsoever in war to my knowledge. Bizarre
they probably high five each other then go to lunch at the burger king trailer
Did the musketeers think they were cowards for REKTING other troops?
Did artillery troops think they were cowards for REKTING any other troops in their range?
Only russian trannies who know they are getting ACKED by aliexpress drones cope by saying "muh coward weapon!!!"
But those people have a chance to be killed. Drone people can be a billion trillion miles away. Basically no chance to die. Also this has nothing to do with any current events stop talking about that nonsense. I eat my finger at you!
*wag my
Don't eat your fingers man, I'm sure you can rob a convenience store or catch a mouse or something. Just dont eat your digits
>but they are cowards because they pretty much CANT die!
so the weapon works as intended
>this isn't like my heccin' honorable samurai!
no one cares, get droned, chud
>videos
ngmi
You might want to look into papers about stress and coping mechanisms in various combat detachments or similar stuff.
Until one of the operators channels his inner SEAL and writes a book about his experiences in the crueling environment of the air conditioned container those are your best bet imho
(me)
Spoonfeeding time, two results I found with google scholar that look promising:
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1037/mil0000149
https://academic.oup.com/milmed/article/179/suppl_8/63/4210169
You might need to visit your favouriteshadow library to access the full text.
I just thought watching a vid would be more fun, but I’ll read these
Probably more mentally healthy than this guy who thought that he was the main character.
Wired did a piece during -- the early days of Predator and Reaper -- on the life of drone pilots. The piece talked about the drone pilots at Creech and their bizarro life of:
> wake up,
> drive to work,
> pilot a drone half way around the world
> Maverick somebody
> gotta pee, tag out
> walk down the hall
> lather, rinse repeat
> drive home
I can't find that piece, but here's one from the LA Times.
https://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-drone-pilots-20150617-story.html
Hellfire, not Mavericks
>Hellfire, not Mavericks
Thank you.
I feel tremendous shame. My donkey and I shall leave the village before sundown.
>My donkey and I shall leave the village before sundown.
No biggie anon, we all make mistakes
I just read the piece and wow they sound kinda pathetic. They keep hyping themselves up for no reason. Kinda silly
>read the piece
Read with your "it's the Los Angeles Times" glasses on.
> the Times is a shit newspapaer
> heavily pozzed
> stories written to support a pre-ordained conclusion
> not "reporting"
> but "advocating"
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I posted before reading your post, but this is what I recall back in the day when reports about this first started coming out.
Is there a separate flight school for drone pilots, or are they fully fledged pilots?
Do drone pilots go to flight school on the short bus?
>Do they think of themselves as cowards
Probably not, but I'm sure the folks on the receiving end probably do. That's pretty much true throughout much of history.
>Club grug thinks rock-slinger grug is a pussy
>Archers/crossbowmen/musketeers have no honor, says the knight
>Pilots and snipers better hope they don't get captured by infantry
I want to be club grug
No, I would not care. Drone operators should have pride in their work and be happy to have some distance to the frontline. There is no "fair" combat and I really could not care less about it ^_^
I would be much more terrified about trench combat.
>drone operators essentially watch snuff films all day where they stalk someone for 8-10 hours before finally picking the moment to kill them
>suffer PTSD from doing this hundreds of times all while looking at a screen and viewing the carnage from thousands of feet up
>FPV drone operators experience seeing their victims up close and personal AND then have to go do BDA
The PTSD those guys are going to experience in a few years is going to be insane.
It's like this but probably not as fun.
Gaminification of war. It's been a thing for a while now. Gulf war perhaps? With aircraft pilots dropping guided munitions onto targets and whatnot. You're several decades late.
Like ten years ago there were some news reports about the stress/ptsd of the drone pilots because there were forced to work seven days per week, they sat in makeshift combat centers built inside shipping containers in the desert, and because of the good optics they could see very well the people they were going to kill, and killing them. During Obama's more professional approach to drone warfare (which he preferred instead of boots on the battlefield) drone operators blasted 'bad guys' then the ambulance crew and crowds that gathered around. I recall one report where the drone operator was claimed to have been yelling at th screen for the 'bad guy' to run because the missile was coming for him. After a few of those reports it got really quiet.
Sounds like over dramatized bullshit
>yelling at screen for the bad guy
>RUN, BITCH! RUN!
>maniacal cackle after the hit
Are they still sending failed pilots to that MOS? Last I heard they were having recruitment difficulty and some were arguing to let enlisted do the job.
i dont see how it has to do with cowardice since fear is not involved in the job
its a very tough job