More on those Ukrainian drone operators that got overrun...

 Remember the post from yesterday about the Ukrainian drone operators that got overrun?

It got me thinking.

Everyone (myself included) thought that being a drone operator was a geek job.  They don't do the work that the gun bunnies do to get shells loaded and get rounds on target that they do.

Naw.  You don't see those guys sweating in the burning sun, living in mud or enduring so much rain you can barely see in front of you.

Drone operators were seen as living in luxury, working in climate controlled portable offices looking thru screens thousands of miles away.

Now?

Now that shit has gone tactical.  Now they do live in the bad stuff.  Now they do have to endure like everyone else.

But the Ukrainian dudes did something to add fuel to an already burning fire.  Think about it.  You can't reach out and touch them. They kill with impunity and the best you can do is hopefully knock down the drone before it could kill you.

They started posting those battlefield snuff videos.  Soldiers waving goodbye or begging for mercy or committing suicide to stop the pain (there is a vid up of a soldier waving goodbye to his mother before sticking a hand grenade inside his body armor and killing himself...don't know the details but that was the caption...I'll try and find it).

This war has made drone operators the most hated.

They better send those bubbas to the best SERE schools possible and they better make the current ones MUCH better.

That MOS just got off the ground and they're at the top of the food chain for getting kills on.

Drone operators started off as the geek squad.  They better morph into Rambo real quick or they're gonna get got.