“Colonel Brenton acknowledges the peculiar new disconnect of fighting a telewar with a joystick and a throttle from his padded seat in American suburbia. When he was deployed in Iraq, “you land and there’s no more weapons on your F-16, people have an idea of what you were just involved with.” Now he steps out of a dark room of video screens, his adrenaline still surging after squeezing the trigger, and commutes home past fast-food restaurants and convenience stores to help with homework — but always alone with what he has done. “It’s a strange feeling,” he said. “No one in my immediate environment is aware of anything that occurred.”
Drone Pilots, Waiting for a Kill Shot 7,000 Miles Away - NYTimes.com
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