Drone Operator Admits He Was Ordered To Kill Countless Innocent Civilians, Including Children
After six years in the U.S. Air Force, a former drone operator has started opening up about the psychological toll of killing large numbers of innocent people.
Brandon Bryant, 27, from Missoula, Montana, killed scores of
innocents – by his own admission – simply by pressing a button from a
control room in New Mexico.
Bryant couldn’t take any more after following orders to shoot and
kill a child in Afghanistan. He knew that following the orders was
wrong, but the very fact that he had been ordered to murder people who
it was clear to all were innocent, told him that he was fighting for
some very bad people.
“I saw men, women and children die during that time,” he said in
an interview with Spiegel Online. “I never thought I would kill that
many people. In fact, I thought I couldn’t kill anyone at all.”
Bryant joined the military when he was told that he could go to
college for “free” if he enlisted. It was shortly thereafter that he
found himself shooting innocent people by remote.
The very first time he fired a drone missile, Bryant killed two men instantly and cried all the way home.“I felt disconnected from humanity for almost a week,” he explained.
“I saw men, women and children die.”
“These moments are like in slow motion,” he said further.
After seeing a flash on the screen – an explosion – and a building collapsing on a child right next to it, he had a sick feeling in his stomach.
“Did we just kill a kid?” he asked the drone operator who was sitting next to him.
“Yeah, I guess that was a kid,” the more seasoned operator coldly replied.
Now, he says, he “can’t just switch and go back to normal life.”
Bryant has left the military and is living back at home in Montana, and has been diagnosed with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder.
(Article by M.B. David)
http://republicbroadcasting.org/drone-operator-admits-he-was-ordered-to-kill-countless-innocent-civilians-including-children/
2 comments:
Brandon,
I'll pray for you.
At least you walked away from it.
Now it's time for you to reconcile you, with yourself...
It will be hard and uncomfortable.
Go easy on yourself.
I'll pray that your personal pain is bearable.
Know that it's not all your fault.
an understanding stranger...
Brandon, see PTSD section @ americannationalmilitia.com stay strong- prayers for you.
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