Former drone operator pretends to feel remorse for 1,600 deaths
A former Air Force drone operator who says he participated in missions that killed more than 1,600 people remembers watching one of the first victims bleed to death.
Brandon Bryant says he was sitting in a chair at a Nevada Air Force base operating the camera when his team fired two missiles from their drone at three men walking down a road halfway around the world in Afghanistan. The missiles hit all three targets, and Bryant says he could see the aftermath on his computer screen – including thermal images of a growing puddle of hot blood. “The guy that was running forward, he’s missing his right leg,” he recalled. “And I watch this guy bleed out and, I mean, the blood is hot.” As the man died his body grew cold, said Bryant, and his thermal image changed until he became the same color as the ground.
This soldiers's obviously unbelievably sick and not at all very sincere. He says after hitting a man and watching him "bleed out" that he felt like a sociopath: "I can almost see the agony on this guy's face...and eventually this guy becomes the same color as the ground that he bled upon. And..." - "So he looses his heat - you watch him die!" the interviewer says, interrupting him. - "Yeah!" the soldier says emphatically and smiles with apparent glee.