Americans at risk to be unable to be soldiers, due to obesity

[Verbose]

But a drone operator can also suffer from psychological issues, and he is (in many respects) more of a horrible actor than a traditional soldier who fights on the ground, cause the former kills without any threat to his own self anyway, which since ancient times was regarded as very ignoble.

At the very least he can't rationalise his actions with the actually very persuasive (for being largely true in a great many situations): "Well, it was him or me". Because that empathically wasn't the situation.

Not even the immediacy of: "I did it to protect me mates", is going to work.

 

[Kyriakos]

At the very least he can't rationalise his actions with the actually very persuasive (for being largely true in a great many situations): "Well, it was him or me". Because that empathically wasn't the situation.

Not even the immediacy of: "I did it to protect me mates", is going to work.

Maybe he can use other lines, such as:

"Killing those targets was needed so as to unlock DLC for my other computer games.
Afterall we are still in the game. Right?"

 

[Gucumatz]

I have read the military struggles to retain UAV operators at much higher rates than most traditional forms of troops. I wonder if the psychological has anything to do with it

 

[Commodore]

I have read the military struggles to retain UAV operators at much higher rates than most traditional forms of troops. I wonder if the psychological has anything to do with it

I think it has more to do with how much money they can make in the private sector. A lot of the specialized work in the military is also done by defense contractors and the defense contractors pay a hell of a lot better than the military does. I knew UAV maintenance contractors over there who were pulling in over $200,000 a year just to work on the UAVs. Now a lot of that was uplift for hazard pay since they were in a warzone, but even without the uplift they would still be making significantly more than a soldier doing the same job.