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In the latest issue of GQ magazine, a great article featuring Airman First Class Brandon
Bryant exposes the brutality of a new kind of warfare, where man merges with machine
and goes on terrifying mass killing sprees all from the comfort of a smoky control room
deep in the Nevada desert. Brandon, who since has gone rogue with his story, controversially
after he's already murdered thousands of people including women and children, has nonetheless
decided to tell his tale. What he details, provides a shocking sneak peek into the largely
hidden and top-secret drone program in the United States. In one scene, Brandon describes
the horror of watching the aftermath of a drone strike he perpetrated in Afghanistan's
Kunar Province, thousands of miles away from the victims:
"Airman First Class Brandon Bryant stared at the scene, unblinking in the white-hot
clarity of infrared. He recalls it even now, years later, burned into his memory like a
photo negative: "The smoke clears, and there's pieces of the two guys around the crater.
And there's this guy over here, and he's missing his right leg above his knee. He's holding
it, and he's rolling around, and the blood is squirting out of his leg, and it's hitting
the ground, and it's hot. His blood is hot. But when it hits the ground, it starts to
cool off; the pool cools fast. It took him a long time to die. I just watched him. I
watched him become the same color as the ground he was lying on."
After years in the hot seat, struggling with PTSD and probable suicide, Brandon decided
to tell his story. He's decided to share exactly what Obama's drone strike program looked like
from within the underbelly of the Pentagon. According to the Washington Times, a new book
claims that President Barack Obama was overheard telling aides during the 2012 campaign about
killing people with drones, saying that he's "really good at killing people," a shocking
statement coming from a Nobel Peace Prize winning President. Since taking office, Obama
has taken credit for the *** of hundreds of people on his kill list, most notably the
US born citizen Anwar al-Awlaki and his 16-year old son Abdurrahman. The drone strike in Yemen
of al-Awlaki, an American born citizen who was never tried or convicted of a crime is
unprecedented.
Brandon started his service in the drone program under the guidance of military supervision
just months after his twenty-first birthday. It was Brandon's job as a "sensor" operator
to help guide the heat-seeking missiles to their target with his Predator drone co-pilot
sitting next to him. Long hours at the keyboard and the light flicker of monitors seemed to
merge time, Brandon recalls. Boredom mixed with fear and short bursts of strikes on victims'
pixelated in infrared. Ultimately, Brandon was responsible for the success of the kill;
the impact of the strike and to this day its still haunts him.
"'In another flashback, Brandon recalls unloading a heat-seeking missile on an insurgent compound:
"Bryant's laser hovered on the corner of the building. "Missile off the rail." Nothing
moved inside the compound but the eerily glowing cows and goats. Bryant zoned out at the pixels.
Then, about six seconds before impact, he saw a hurried movement in the compound. "This
figure runs around the corner, the outside, toward the front of the building. And it looked
like a little kid to me. Like a little human person." Brandon's superiors assured him later
that "the little human person" that disappeared in a white flash wasn't a child per the review
but was a "dog."'
Brandon's story is filled with accounts like these, the physical detachment from the "kill"
and also the emotional toll on his psyche and personal ridicule he suffered that ultimately
led him to break rank and turn down a six-figure incentive package to continue flying. Brandon,
as any normal person would be, is deeply conflicted and traumatized by the experience, a deep
sense of guilt and feeling of betrayal of his fellow man after taking "kill" orders
from his commandeers and as a result wasting thousands of people he didn't even know. Brandon's
total kills in action according to his list of achievements: 1,626 people.
Brandon story isn't unique; he's just the first to shed light on an emerging multi-billion
dollar industry aimed at profiting from the assassination of ones enemies via drone strike.
It not only sheds light on the grim horrors of war, but also warns Americans of an emerging
trend in military enforcement and gives them a real glimpse into the US drone program paid
for by their tax dollars.
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