Posted on Aug 17, 2015
Is This A Waste Of Tax Payers Dollars? Army, SOCOM to take on daily drone missions.
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The Pentagon will significantly expand the number of daily drone sorties conducted around the globe during the next several years and will for the first time expand the mission beyond the Air Force, a defense official said.
The plan reflects a high-level recognition that the Air Force's remotely piloted vehicle fleet can no longer meet the forcewide demand for combat air patrols flown by drone pilots, mainly due to severe pilot shortages.
"Demand exceeds supply in this type of mission," Navy Capt. Jeff Davis, a Pentagon spokesman, said Monday.
Check out this article from Army Times:
Army, SOCOM to take on daily drone missions
http://www.militarytimes.com/story/military/pentagon/2015/08/17/daily-drone-expansion/31855831/
The plan reflects a high-level recognition that the Air Force's remotely piloted vehicle fleet can no longer meet the forcewide demand for combat air patrols flown by drone pilots, mainly due to severe pilot shortages.
"Demand exceeds supply in this type of mission," Navy Capt. Jeff Davis, a Pentagon spokesman, said Monday.
Check out this article from Army Times:
Army, SOCOM to take on daily drone missions
http://www.militarytimes.com/story/military/pentagon/2015/08/17/daily-drone-expansion/31855831/
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SGT Keith Bodine, No
mention was made of the USAF's need for drone pilots! Nuf said!
mention was made of the USAF's need for drone pilots! Nuf said!
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This is a bad sign.
Increasing mission requirement without increasing support is a recipe for failure, if not disaster.
It is important to note WHY there are such pilot shortages.
The biggest reason is a disproportionately high attrition rate among the drone pilots due to conscientious objection. The pilots simply can't get behind blowing up innocent people anymore and are dropping off at an alarming rate.
By the way, someone show me a Declaration of War.
Increasing mission requirement without increasing support is a recipe for failure, if not disaster.
It is important to note WHY there are such pilot shortages.
The biggest reason is a disproportionately high attrition rate among the drone pilots due to conscientious objection. The pilots simply can't get behind blowing up innocent people anymore and are dropping off at an alarming rate.
By the way, someone show me a Declaration of War.
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COL Ted Mc
SrA Erin Hood - Airman; A possible solution would be to "process" the video that the ARMED drone operators are viewing so that it is the same quality as a video game (in fact, you could even have some of the drone pilots flying fictitious missions and "shooting" at fictitious targets so that none of the pilots would ever know if they had actually been the one who shot the real person [sort of like the one blank round in the firing squad {which is really dumb because if you can't tell that you have fired a live round or a blank you shouldn't be messing around with guns}]).
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