{"id":36053,"date":"2013-06-06T11:48:14","date_gmt":"2013-06-06T15:48:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=36053"},"modified":"2013-06-06T11:48:14","modified_gmt":"2013-06-06T15:48:14","slug":"brandon-bryant-drones-gave-me-ptsd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=36053","title":{"rendered":"Brandon Bryant: Drones gave me PTSD"},"content":{"rendered":"

Y’all have been sending us this link all day from NB<\/a>C about Brandon Bryant, the former drone operator from 2006 until 2011 when he left the service to be a media darling, apparently. He says that he killed 1,626 people from his desk chair in Nevada. I wonder if anyone, besides me, has bothered to do the math – that’s 325 people a year. Almost one a day for the entire time he was in the service, from day one at Basic Training. If it were true, and I doubt it, I’d say the drone program is doing a great job.<\/p>\n

But we discussed Bryant in December<\/a> and some of the folks who worked with him said that he was full of shit. His favorite story, he repeats in the NBC article – that he saw a child going into a goat shed just as he was blowing it up (because the US war machine hates goat sheds, for some reason) and he was wracked by the guilt of not aborting the Hellfire before impact. His mates said that there’s a delay in the video image, ya know, after going halfway around the world and all, so the missile had actually impacted on the goat shed by the time he saw the child on the video screen, if the story is even true.<\/p>\n

His mates said that Bryant was actually a drone operator, but that none of the things he is telling the media is true. Besides, in the same character as Breanna Manning, Bryant isn’t supposed to be talking about anything he does, so it stands to reason that he’d tell the media stuff like this because none of it is true and he can’t get in trouble with his chain of command (he’s still in the IRR).<\/p>\n

In the original post he told the Daily Mail that he “accidentally” joined the Air Force after the Army recruiter said he should join the Air Force. Yeah, I’m sure. I’m going to trust his mates on this one and file him under shitbag.<\/p>\n

When he told a woman he was seeing that he\u2019d been a drone operator, and contributed to the deaths of a large number of people, she cut him off. \u201cShe looked at me like I was a monster,\u201d he said. \u201cAnd she never wanted to touch me again.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

So why did he feel that he needed to tell this unknown woman that story? She probably knew he was lying, and a fan of TAH.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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