{"id":63599,"date":"2015-12-31T13:50:29","date_gmt":"2015-12-31T18:50:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=63599"},"modified":"2015-12-31T14:03:19","modified_gmt":"2015-12-31T19:03:19","slug":"brandon-bryant-star-of-drone-documentary-is-a-liar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=63599","title":{"rendered":"Brandon Bryant, Star of Drone Documentary, is a Liar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"500\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/DELuSOaXUoQ\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">\n<p><em>The views expressed here are personal and do not represent the Air Force, the Department of Defense, or the United States government.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve recently written about Brandon Bryant, ex-Air Force drone sensor operator (or as they apparently call them in Norway, a &#8220;pilot&#8221;) over on my blog, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pickyourbattles.net\/2015\/12\/brandon-bryant-by-day-malleable-man-by.html\" target=\"_blank\">PickYourBattles.Net<\/a>.\u00a0 Brandon is the star of a new Norwegian documentary called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt3801730\/\" target=\"_blank\">Drone<\/a>, where his personal story is apparently the meat of the flick.\u00a0 There is just one problem.\u00a0 Brandon Bryant is a liar.<\/p>\n<p>In the short video embedded above, at one point Brandon claims, to an audience in New York City, that the FBI called him to inform him that he was being targeted by ISIS.\u00a0 Then the video shows him telling that exact same story to an audience in Germany, where instead of ISIS he says that the FBI told him he was being targeted by a conservative right wing &#8220;Christian Patriot&#8221; group.\u00a0 This is par for the course.\u00a0 Sadly, most in the media seem to ignore Brandon&#8217;s utter lack of credibility.\u00a0 Or at least they don&#8217;t carefully research him.\u00a0 I guess I can&#8217;t really blame them.\u00a0 After watching more than forty videos of Brandon running his yap, I do not begrudge them for passing up on the experience.\u00a0 Still this charlatan needs to be exposed.<\/p>\n<p>I know Brandon hates him some TAH so I had to show up over here.\u00a0 And when asked to pile on as a guest blogger, I just couldn&#8217;t say no.\u00a0 Kind of like Bryant couldn&#8217;t say no to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=xI8UWFql10Y&amp;feature=youtu.be\" target=\"_blank\">violating his oath<\/a> of office because he was scared that he might be &#8220;ridiculed.&#8221;\u00a0 Yeah he said that.\u00a0 In public.<\/p>\n<p>To be fair, those of us in the defense business know that ridicule strikes fear into the hearts of even the most courageous soldiers, strike that, &#8220;warriors.&#8221;\u00a0 Mortars, rockets, small arms, and anti-aircraft artillery are one thing, but we&#8217;re talking about ridicule here.\u00a0 This ain&#8217;t X-box, ridicule is the real deal, it&#8217;s like being in &#8220;the shit.&#8221;\u00a0 In fact, I may have just now developed Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) simply from the thought of ridicule.\u00a0 I am viewing a computer screen right now, so there is a case to be made.\u00a0 If you&#8217;re Brandon Bryant, of course, or one of his Legion of Jerkoff superhero sidekicks.<\/p>\n<p>Not only does Brandon claim PTSD from being a drone operator with only a handful of lethal actions from ten thousand miles away from the battlefield, but he has also publicly stated that he&#8217;s waiting on his VA benefits so that he can have a place of his own.\u00a0 He&#8217;s too <strong><del>good<\/del><\/strong> traumatized to get a job and he claims to be homeless.\u00a0 Never mind that he lives with his mother in Missoula, or at least he did, and was using the generous GI Bill to go to school; a bounty that comes not just with full tuition, but also with more than $1000 a month in Basic Allowance for Housing (BAH).\u00a0 Still, Brandon will tell ya, he&#8217;s homeless and he&#8217;s a &#8220;disabled veteran&#8221; with no income.\u00a0 He says he has nothing.\u00a0 He touts a &#8220;physical injury&#8221; from his time in the service, but somehow that doesn&#8217;t keep him from literally doing back flips on internet video.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=xI8UWFql10Y&amp;feature=youtu.be\" target=\"_blank\">If you don&#8217;t watch this video<\/a> for any other reason, it&#8217;s worth watching just to see that.\u00a0 But to be fair, I can&#8217;t swing a stick without hitting a homeless disabled veteran doing gymnastic maneuvers.\u00a0 So there&#8217;s that.<\/p>\n<p>But show some compassion, dear reader.\u00a0 Brandon is too disabled to work.\u00a0 Especially not while also fitting in his globe trotting and fine foreign dining, and giving speeches and attending long Q&amp;As about his European film.\u00a0 That poor bastard really pulls on my heart strings.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve known Brandon online for some time now.\u00a0 When I first became acquainted with him, I thought he might have something of substance to offer to an important discussion.\u00a0 Turns out I was wrong.\u00a0 His story morphed over the years from wanting to be a voice for drone operators serving under bad leadership, to him later claiming that distance technology is cowardly and bad.\u00a0 Of course, there are many who agree with him on that point.\u00a0 We in the biz call them the enemy.\u00a0 They hate our distance warfare capability as much as Brandon does, and they prefer making hand-to-hand IEDs.\u00a0 You know, what Brandon would call honorable combat.\u00a0 Practically a fist fight.<\/p>\n<p>Now this self-proclaimed expert on war is writing letters to the President of the United States, as though he has some kind of moral authority despite the fact that he <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=xI8UWFql10Y&amp;feature=youtu.be\" target=\"_blank\">directly violated his oath<\/a> of office while he was serving.\u00a0 That doesn&#8217;t stop him from making lofty proclamations, though.<\/p>\n<p>Not only have I learned that Brandon will lie without a second thought, as the video above demonstrates, but his motivations are not pure.\u00a0 They weren&#8217;t pure when he was in the military, and they&#8217;re not pure now.\u00a0 It&#8217;s still all about him.\u00a0 He knows nothing of service despite his collection of Reader&#8217;s Digest quotes to the contrary.\u00a0 He admits that he&#8217;s always wanted to be a hero and that he grew up with comic books.\u00a0 I think it&#8217;s fair to say that him plagiarizing the words of Captain America from a Marvel comic both at his Tedx talk, as well as during his ramblings at the Drone documentary premiere in New York City, shows that he hasn&#8217;t lost that love of fiction.\u00a0 Brandon is all about spreading fictions.<\/p>\n<p>But public service and public discourse are not the stuff of fairy tales.\u00a0 And there is an important discussion to be had about our nation&#8217;s national security and how our military capabilities are utilized.\u00a0 Sadly, Brandon is hurting this discussion and the credibility of better people who inexplicably enable his shenanigans.\u00a0 For some reason, these more serious people are not relegating Brandon to the kid&#8217;s table where he belongs.\u00a0 Perhaps these journalists and lawyers are just taking their time, as I did, figuring out his lack of character.\u00a0 I suspect, however, that many of Brandon&#8217;s foreign friends, like Tonje Hessen Schei, are not too troubled by his character so long as he follows a particular script.<\/p>\n<p>And that script is infecting and hurting an important discussion all over the internet.\u00a0 Hopefully the fine folks at TAH can help foster and improve the discussion by continuing their fine tradition of exposing this guy for the fraud that he is.\u00a0 Brandon likes social media and a lot of people are eating up the piles of manure he&#8217;s feeding them.\u00a0 I hope that those who hate liars as much as myself, and who love their country and want our capability to remain strong while we debate the proper use of that capability, will help get the word out on Facebook and Twitter about this scoundrel.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks for your help.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The views expressed here are personal and do not represent the Air Force, the Department of &hellip; 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