Not A Bug Splat, Drone Pilot

"How many women and children have you seen incinerated by a Hellfire missile? How many men have you seen crawl across a field, trying to make it to the nearest compound for help while bleeding out from severed legs?" She added, "When you are exposed to it over and over again it becomes like a small video, embedded in your head, forever on repeat, causing psychological pain and suffering that many people will hopefully never experience." Heather Linebaugh, former drone intelligence analyst, writing in The Guardian, December 2013, quoted by Pratap Chatterjee, in Tomgram.com.

Soccer field-sized enlargement of an image of a girl orphaned by a drone strike stretched out over  farmland because the images drone pilots see on their computer screens at Creech Air Force Base in Nevada aren't large enough or clear enough to distinguish who their victims really are.

Ground level view of the image placed in the hope of instilling empathy for victims among the  drone pilots.

"After six years, Bryant couldn’t take it any more. He saw a therapist who diagnosed him with post-traumatic stress disorder. This was a novel, even shocking development for an airman who had hardly ever come close to a battlefield. Bryant was suitably taken aback and, as a result, began speaking out against the system of killing he had been enmeshed in and what it does both to the killers and those killed. "Combat is combat. Killing is killing. This isn't a video game," he wrote in an angry tirade on Facebook. "How many of you have killed a group of people, watched as their bodies are picked up, watched the funeral, then killed them, too?" from Pratap Chatterjee,  The True Costs of Remote Control War, Tomgram.Com.

There's nothing I can add. Read the links.

http://www.tomdispatch.com/post/175842/tomgram%3A_pratap_chatterjee%2C_the_true_costs_of_remote_control_war/

http://notabugsplat.com