The Woes of an American Drone Operator

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2. Indeed it has.

And the comments I read of the drone teacher Major Vanessa Meyer, is even more chilling. Especially when you consider she's a mother teaching others to fly these death-delivery systems, who then go out and end up killing more women and more kids and other innocents.

Meyer had her first child when she was working there. She was still sitting in the cockpit, her stomach pressing up against the keyboard, in her ninth month of pregnancy. "There was no time for feelings" when she was preparing for an attack, she says today. Of course, she says, she felt her heart beating faster and the adrenaline rushing through her body. But then she adhered strictly to the rules and focused on positioning the aircraft. "When the decision had been made, and they saw that this was an enemy, a hostile person, a legal target that was worthy of being destroyed, I had no problem with taking the shot."