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TwilightGardener

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1. Probably not a good thing. The military is more restricted legally in what it can do,

Reply to jakeXT (Original post)

Wed Nov 6, 2013, 03:13 PM

Nov 2013

from what I understand, which might serve as a built-in protection against abuse and overreach of secret drone operations. Odd that they put it as the DoD not having an "appetite" for taking on more drone responsibility--killing is their business, after all.

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Probably not a good thing. The military is more restricted legally in what it can do, TwilightGardener Nov 2013 #1

Protection against abuse and overreach is a good thing, but the soldiers suffer from PTSD jakeXT Nov 2013 #2