The Hand of God
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The Hand of God
I was just watching a movie about the unmanned aerial vehicles' (UAV) pilots
Quite interesting the psychological stress involved in living a normal life in the States, but everyday just down the road at work, you fly drones over areas targeted by the military (recorded)/ CIA (not recorded).
Wake up, eat breakfast, say goodbye to little Johnie and kiss your wife. Drive to the base. Go into a container and fly a plane thousands of miles away.
Blow-up an entire family then back home for tea. Modern warfare. Not so much Team America, as The Hand of God.
It struck me as being unusual in that normally, as a pilot, you would be more psyched into some kind of '"team kill" spirit. I mean your locally based thousands of miles away on an aircraft carrier/ base with all the camaraderie etc of flying active missions. With UAV pilots it seems more that your going to work in Dixens or something.
I was going to post this in the not Cambodia section, but who knows? Note what the armies nick name for the CIA is.
Your Sunday movie perhaps. Direct link to streaming movie below
Good Kill.
http://cinema.solarmovie.ph/link/play/5081231/
Quite interesting the psychological stress involved in living a normal life in the States, but everyday just down the road at work, you fly drones over areas targeted by the military (recorded)/ CIA (not recorded).
Wake up, eat breakfast, say goodbye to little Johnie and kiss your wife. Drive to the base. Go into a container and fly a plane thousands of miles away.
Blow-up an entire family then back home for tea. Modern warfare. Not so much Team America, as The Hand of God.
It struck me as being unusual in that normally, as a pilot, you would be more psyched into some kind of '"team kill" spirit. I mean your locally based thousands of miles away on an aircraft carrier/ base with all the camaraderie etc of flying active missions. With UAV pilots it seems more that your going to work in Dixens or something.
I was going to post this in the not Cambodia section, but who knows? Note what the armies nick name for the CIA is.
Your Sunday movie perhaps. Direct link to streaming movie below
Good Kill.
http://cinema.solarmovie.ph/link/play/5081231/
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Videos and entertainment ?
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i wasted 6 years of my life as a UAV pilot in singapore armed forces
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I thought I made it fairly clear that we may be next. Therefore Cambodian relevant. Maybe that's OD's new job that's keeping him so busy.Anchor Moy wrote:Videos and entertainment ?
I can't see Cambodia siding with the US if the China/US thing ever kicks off. But they both got em.
China's Drone Program Appears To Be Moving Into Overdrive
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/05/0 ... 07392.html
BEIJING -- Determined to kill or capture a murderous Mekong River drug lord, China's security forces considered a tactic they'd never tried before: calling a drone strike on his remote hideaway deep in the hills of Myanmar.
The attack didn't happen – the man was later captured and brought to China for trial – but the fact that authorities were considering such an option cast new light on China's unmanned aerial vehicle program, which has been quietly percolating for years and now appears to be moving into overdrive.
Chinese aerospace firms have developed dozens of drones, known also as unmanned aerial vehicles, or UAVs. Many have appeared at air shows and military parades, including some that bear an uncanny resemblance to the Predator, Global Hawk and Reaper models used with deadly effect by the U.S. Air Force and CIA. Analysts say that although China still trails the U.S. and Israel, the industry leaders, its technology is maturing rapidly and on the cusp of widespread use for surveillance and combat strikes.
"My sense is that China is moving in
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i thought that the actual killer drone pilots were based out where the action is, iraq, syria etc, not at a military base in the U.S?
the drones don't work that far away do they?
the drones don't work that far away do they?
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world number 1 UAV developer are israelis, when i was there in early 90s, US and israelis just started working on the hunter, global hawk programs, the israelis build their UAVs from scratch, program codes, airframe, etc china, india just copy.
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some are based near where action is, some are based very far away, now they can be linked by satelites depend on the systemsSinnSisamouth wrote:i thought that the actual killer drone pilots were based out where the action is, iraq, syria etc, not at a military base in the U.S?
the drones don't work that far away do they?
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i think the hunter killer pilots (raptors) are always based near the action and the non combatant pilots are based in the U.S?
i know they have recruitment issues but I thought it as because of better money in the private sector , plus you don't have to kill people
i know they have recruitment issues but I thought it as because of better money in the private sector , plus you don't have to kill people
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Why was your time wasted...did you not learn anything, did you not make any friends, save money, learn any skills for future employment, have ethos instilled in you, etc...?bolueeleh wrote:i wasted 6 years of my life as a UAV pilot in singapore armed forces
I don’t believe that any time spent in the armed forces are wasted.
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i thought i served a country that will take care of me but it turned out singapore is "made" for big corporations to do business in, that is why recent years there have been lots of resentment and exodus.PSD-Kiwi wrote:I don’t believe that any time spent in the armed forces are wasted.
wasted in terms of i served with a wrong conviction but i learned discipline and camaraderie, so in that sense i learned something.
like a lot of statements i read on FB or on internet by US servicemen, they would die for their brothers in arm but not for their country, that is exactly how i feel.
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