Legal Niches

Time Spent Playing Videogames Pays Off for Drone Pilots

By pete_gallagher

Following last week's story in which a United Nations investigator called for a ban on the use of CIA drone strikes on suspected Islamic militants in response to fears that such activities could lead to a 'PlayStation mentality,' a reporter from the UK's channel 4 visited an Arizona army base where members of the military are trained to use the unmanned aircraft.

At Fort Huachuca, reporter Sara Smith initially noted that, 'You can teach almost anyone to use a joystick and fly these drones.' After stating that many young enlisted soldiers—as young as 18 years old—are being trained to pilot the drones, Smith talked to Staff Sergeant Brian Martin who said, 'We like to use the younger generation because they've been playing the videogames, so they kind of have that mental capacity and their brain is already setup to think that way.'
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Full post as published by GamePolitics.com on June 07, 2010 (boomark / email).