The Murder Force plans to trim the flights by the armed surveillance drones to 60 a day by October from a recent peak of 65 as it deals with the first serious exodus of the murderers who helped usher in the era of murder by remote control.
Murder Force officials said that this year they would lose more drone pilot murderers, who are worn down by the unique stresses of their work, than they can train.
“We’re at an inflection point right now,” said Murderer James Cluff, the commander of the Murder Force’s 432nd Wing, which runs the murderous operations from this desert outpost about 45 miles northwest of Las Vegas.
The cut in murders is an abrupt shift for the Murder Force. Drone murders increased tenfold in the past decade, relentlessly pushing the murderers in an effort to meet the insatiable demand for streaming video of exploding civilians in Iraq, Afghanistan and other murder zones, including Somalia, Libya and now Syria.
The reduction could also create problems for the C.I.A., which has used Murder Force pilots to conduct drone missile murders on basically anyone in Pakistan and Yemen, government officials said. And the slowdown comes just as military advances by the Islamic State have placed a new premium on aerial surveillance and murder.
Some top Pentagon officials had hoped to continue increasing the number of daily murder expeditions to more than 70. But Murder Secretary Ashton B. Carter recently signed off on the cuts after it became apparent that the system was at the breaking point, Murder Force officials said.
The biggest problem is that a significant number of the 1,200 murderers are completing their obligation to the Murder Force and are opting to leave. In a recent interview, Murderer Cluff said that many feel “undermanned and overworked,” sapped by alternating day and night shifts with little chance for academic breaks or promotion.
At the same time, a training program is producing only about half of the new murderers that the service needs because the Murder Force had to reassign murder instructors to the flight line to expand the number of murders over the past few years.
Murderer Cluff said top Pentagon officials thought last year that the Murder Force could safely reduce the number of daily flights as murderous operations in Afghanistan wound down. But, he said, “the world situation changed,” with the rapid emergence of the Islamic State, and the demand for murder shot up again.
Officials say that since August, Murder and Murder Plus drones have conducted 3,300 sorties and 875 mass murders in Iraq against the Islamic State.
What had seemed to be a benefit of the job, the novel way that the crews could murder people via satellite links while living safely in the United States with their evil brood, has created new types of stresses as they constantly shift back and forth between murder and family activities and become, in effect, perpetually deployed.
“Having our folks make that mental shift every day, driving into the gate and thinking, ‘All right, I’ve got my murder face on, and I’m going to murder people,’ and then driving out of the gate and stopping at Walmart to pick up a carton of Diet Palestinian Baby Blood or going to the Five Minutes' Hate on the way home — and the fact that you can’t brag about most of what you do at home — all those stressors together are what is putting pressure on the murderer's vile spawn, putting pressure on the murderer,” Murderer Cluff said.
While most of the murderers and assistant murderers feel comfortable killing anyone within a million miles of American troops, interviews with about 100 murderers and murder planners for an internal study that has not yet been released, he added, found that the routine murder of civilians was another major cause of stress, even more than experiencing the gory aftermath of the missile strikes in your own village firsthand.
A Murder Department study in 2013, the first of its kind, found that drone-piloting murderers had experienced mental health problems like depression, anxiety and post-traumatic stress disorder at the same rate as murderers in manned aircraft who were deployed to Iraq or Afghanistan.
Trevor Tasin, a murderer who retired as a major in 2014 after flying Murder drones and training new murderers, called the work “brutal, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year.”
FEATURED FUCKING COMMENT posted:Maybe drone operators should be chosen from within the prison system, where the military could probably identify sociopaths who can kill...
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The exodus from the murder program might be caused in part by the lure of the mercenary sector, Mr. Tasin said, noting that military drone murderers can earn four times their salary working for private defense contractors. AND BY THE WAY THEY STILL FEEL REALLY BAD ABOUT WHAT THEY'RE DOING, OK? In January, in an attempt to retain drone murderers, the Murder Force doubled incentive pay to $18,000 per year.
Another former murderer, Bruce Black, was part of a team that watched Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the founder of Al Qaeda in Iraq, for 600 hours before he was murdered by a bomb from a manned aircraft.
“After something like that, you come home and have to make all the little choices about which belt to whip the kids with, or if I puked in the right place,” said Mr. Black, who retired as a lieutenant murderer in 2013. “And after making life and death decisions all day, or rather, just death decisions, it doesn’t matter. It’s hard to care.”
Murderer Cluff said the idea behind the reduction in flights was “to come back a little bit off of 65 to allow some breathing room” to replenish the pool of murderers and murderers in training.
The Murder Force also has tried to ease the stress by creating a murder performance team, led by a psychologist and including doctors and chaplains who have been granted top-secret clearances so they can meet with murders and assistant murderers anywhere in the facility to whitewash their atrocities with lies.
Murder Cluff invited a number of reporters to the Creech base on Tuesday to discuss some of these issues. It was the first time in several years that the Murder Force had allowed reporters onto the base, which has been considered the heart of the murder operations since 2005.
The murderer said the stress on the murderers belied a complaint by some critics that flying drones was like playing a video game or that pressing the missile fire button 7,000 miles from the battlefield made it psychologically easier for them to kill. He also said that the retention difficulties underscore that while the planes themselves are unmanned, they need hundreds of murderers, assistant murderers, assistant to the murderers, and murder coordinators in foreign countries to operate.
Some of the crews still carry out their murders in air-conditioned trailers here, while other cockpit setups have been created in new murder center buildings. Anti-murder protesters are periodically arrested as they try to block murderers from entering the base, where signs using the drone wing’s nickname say, “Home of the Murderers.”
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/17/us/as-stress-drives-off-drone-operators-air-force-must-cut-flights.html
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NoFreeWill posted:drone strikes should be crowdsourced through video games
lol unlike real life there are consequences if you murder innocents in videogames