Former Drone Operator Says He's Haunted by His Part in More Than 1,600 Deaths
who says he participated in missions
that killed more than 1,600 people
remembers watching one of the first
victims bleed to death.
"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.
"I can see every little pixel," said Bryant,
who has been diagnosed with post-
traumatic stress disorder, "if I just close
my eyes."
Bryant, now 27, served as a drone operator
from 2006 to 2011, at bases in Nevada,
New Mexico and in Iraq, guiding unmanned
drones over Iraq and Afghanistan and taking
part in missions that he was told led to the
deaths of an estimated 1,626 individuals.
"People say that drone strikes are like mortar
attacks," Bryant said. "Well, artillery doesn't
see this. Artillery doesn't see the results of
their actions. It's really more intimate for us,
because we see everything."
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