"Armchair pilots striking Afghanistan by remote control
"never leave the air-conditioned comfort of their command center.... the future of aerial combat."
CREECH AIR FORCE BASE, Nevada (CNN) -- From a desert outpost northwest of Las Vegas, elite fighter pilots journey to a war zone in Afghanistan, some 7,500 miles away.
It might be the world's longest commute, except that these armchair pilots at Creech Air Force Base in Nevada never leave the air-conditioned comfort of their command center.
Air Force pilots are employing remotely controlled fighter-bomber aircraft -- known in military parlance as unmanned aerial vehicles, or UAVs -- to fly combat missions over Afghanistan, hunting for insurgents bent on undermining Afghan President Hamid Karzai's fragile government.
This is the future of aerial combat.
"Seeing bad guys on the screen and watching them possibly get dispatched, and then going down to the Taco Bell for lunch, it's kind of surreal," says Captain Matt Dean.
The original drone was the "Predator," armed with a pair of Hellfire missiles. It was followed by its bigger and far more lethal cousin, "the Reaper," which carries four times as much firepower. Reaper pilots so far this year have launched 64 missiles and dropped seven 500-pound bombs in Afghanistan.
And the MSM reported how many?
Originally a spy plane, the Predator was converted to a strike aircraft shortly after the September 11, 2001, attacks on the Pentagon and World Trade Center.
Some would say that they were used against the Pentagon that fateful day?
A remote-controlled killing machine fleet of armed, unmanned aircraft. The pilots stay safe and rotate in shifts to prevent fatigue. The Air Force is shifting its budget toward buying dozens more remote-controlled killer Reapers."
We are not headed in the right direction, nor to a good place if this mass-murder based on lies keeps up.
Where are you, America?
