Originally Posted by
ku commando
Alrighty folks....straight from the horses mouth here.
I wrote my 33 y/o son, an E-6 [senior airman] at a drone AFB....and asked him to vet or debunk the zero hedge article....here is what he had to say:
....As for the article, completely false. At least at my squadron. We get randomly selected for drug testing all the time. Besides that, the very nature of my job is to call out collateral damage (be it kids, a mosque, hospital, school, etc). I've called off strikes because women and children were in the area and I've seen stokes called off for the same. I've never heard of pilots refer to kids as fun size terrorists, although that is freaking hilarious! This article is off base and I think someone just wanted to write some ****.