Drone Aircraft

A retired U.S. Marine Colonel sent me an email that's been around since 2007. The email lists several U.S. Military drone aircraft. In the email the Colonel had some remarks attributed, without a source, to a Colonel Chris Chambliss, Commander of the 432nd (UAS)Wing at Creech AFB. "All of the Air Force's unmanned drones are now operated from Creech Air Force Base, 45 miles northwest of Las Vegas at Indian Springs. They used to run out of Nellis AFB and now have their own Wing at Creech AFB"
Some of his, Col Chambliss, comments: "It's the most deadly remote controlled plane in the world. Pilots fly it like a teenager playing a video game. Airmen at Creech AFB can control the Predator drone and the second generation Reaper anywhere in the world. "At least since 2001, Predator's have been airborne 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, primarily over Iraq and Afghanistan . There has never been a time when we haven't." The unmanned program is so successful it's now under the command of the Air Force. "We are going to increase the number of combat air patrols that we fly with it and the number of hours astronomically," Col. Chambliss said. This year the Predator drone will fly 75,000 hours -- up 20-percent from last year."

I did a search and found an article at Wired Magazine. The title is, "Flight of the Extreme UAVs, From Smallest to Deadliest" by David Hambling, October 10, 2007.

The adjectives given to name the drones were; Most Famous, Deadliest, Widest Range, Stealthiest, Most Welcome, Highest, Toughest, Most Modular, and Most Local. Those were the names given to our drones. The name given to the enemy drone, a single small suicide drone used by Hezbollah, is "Most Alarming." Most Alarming! It has not killed anyone. Notice the age old use of terms to describe our side as virtuous and the enemy as threatening and evil.

I wonder what terms the enemy uses to describe the U.S. drones that kill their innocent women and children?

“Why is propaganda so much more successful when it stirs up hatred than when it tries to stir up friendly feeling?” Bertrand Russell

Charles Tolleson