[river rat]

And, in this grunt’s personal opinion - LONG OVERDUE.

[Brucifer]

“The Army has found young soldiers familiar with video games can fly UAVs.”

That's gotta hurt.

[Tallguy]

I'm willing to concede that the USAF may have a point about preferring rated pilots at the controls of their UAV's. Mostly the USAF drones are flying long (strategic) missions at higher altitudes. I don't know what the flight charactaristics are of some of these aircraft, but it may well be that a trained pilot will cope better.

It's obvious that the Army/Marines will go with NCO operators. I wonder what the Navy will do when they get their hands on a shipboard UCAV?

[Brucifer]

A couple of days ago a friend of mine who is soon to a retire as an Army First Sergeant asked me this, “Why does the Army love the Air Force?”

“Because they fly us to where the wars are.”

[vpintheak]

Personally if I was an Officer I would feel pretty gay telling people I was a UAV pilot. That’s pretty lame, and yes plenty of people can do it. Pilots can and should stick to the real things.

[indthkr]

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