Air Force trains drone pilots by tracking civilian cars in US

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MARK MAZZETTI
New York Times
Saturday, July 7, 2012

Holloman Air Force Base, at the eastern edge of New Mexico’s White Sands Missile Range, 200 miles south of Albuquerque, was once famous for the daredevil maneuvers of those who trained there. In 1954, Col. John Paul Stapp rode a rocket-propelled sled across the desert, reaching 632 miles per hour, in an attempt to figure out the maximum speed at which jet pilots could safely eject. He slammed on the brakes and was thrust forward with such force that he had to be hauled away on a stretcher, his eyes bleeding from burst capillaries. Six years later, Capt. Joseph Kittinger Jr., testing the height at which pilots could safely bail out, rode a helium-powered balloon up to 102,800 feet. He muttered, “Lord, take care of me now,” dropped for 13 minutes 45 seconds and broke the record for the highest parachute jump.

Today many of the pilots at Holloman never get off the ground. The base has been converted into the U.S. Air Force’s primary training center for drone operators, where pilots spend their days in sand-colored trailers near a runway from which their planes take off without them. Inside each trailer, a pilot flies his plane from a padded chair, using a joystick and throttle, as his partner, the “sensor operator,” focuses on the grainy images moving across a video screen, directing missiles to their targets with a laser.

Holloman sits on almost 60,000 acres of desert badlands, near jagged hills that are frosted with snow for several months of the year — a perfect training ground for pilots who will fly Predators and Reapers over the similarly hostile terrain of Afghanistan. When I visited the base earlier this year with a small group of reporters, we were taken into a command post where a large flat-screen television was broadcasting a video feed from a drone flying overhead. It took a few seconds to figure out exactly what we were looking at. A white S.U.V. traveling along a highway adjacent to the base came into the cross hairs in the center of the screen and was tracked as it headed south along the desert road. When the S.U.V. drove out of the picture, the drone began following another car.

“Wait, you guys practice tracking enemies by using civilian cars?” a reporter asked. One Air Force officer responded that this was only a training mission, and then the group was quickly hustled out of the room.

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18 Responses to “Air Force trains drone pilots by tracking civilian cars in US”

  1. Shoot them down….it’s part of your duty to protect the Constitution

    Vic Reply:
    July 7th, 2012 at 8:31 am

    it’s too late.

    Did anyone empeach Bush father, son and or Obama?

    then how do you expect people will shoot them down?

    singularity Reply:
    July 7th, 2012 at 12:34 pm

    This story reminds me of a scene from the movie Syriana…

  2. Time to put the 50 cal on the roof of the car what else this is a big rights violation and the little clowns with there toys know it !!!!!!!

    Vic Reply:
    July 7th, 2012 at 8:32 am

    a big rights violation ? yes

    1991 BUsh dad announced this NWO that also was a serious violation and who did something about it?

  3. “Wait, you guys practice tracking enemies by using civilian cars?” a reporter asked. One Air Force officer responded that this was only a training mission, and then the group was quickly hustled out of the room.

    naaw, they dont KNOW its totally WRONG to do this crap.

    Vic Reply:
    July 7th, 2012 at 8:35 am

    It boils down to each human living on this planet. When a human cannot descern right from wrong anymore, it is a sign of the end times as we have all known it?

    right now as we read , all good military people should have acted and walked out of this military murdering org that has been taken over by order givers who abuse yhe naive military people making them do evil operations in the name of a NWO.

  4. screw the individual drones, the whole base needs to go

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    Vic Reply:
    July 7th, 2012 at 8:36 am

    Maybe your best friend can do something usefull about the drones?????

    The time is NOW Reply:
    July 7th, 2012 at 1:27 pm

    best reply so far

  6. You got to love how they are doing something like this, are too stupid to think that a reporter would notice, and when one does, they freak out because they know what they were doing is wrong. I just wish the people they were using as targets knew that they were being used as such. These drones are flying armed even on training exercises and it is a crime to point any weapon at a person or persons, hence the crime brandishing. These people could sue the military big time if they knew and should. I know I would if I found out and had proof they were using me as a target to practice by.

  7. The enemy of the USA is not overseas. The real enemy is subtle, unseen, and gradually metastasizing within government agencies, the military and private enterprise – just like a cancer grows and spreads.

    Untreated and unchallenged, that cancer will eventually kill the whole body.

    Not a Drill! Reply:
    July 7th, 2012 at 11:34 am

    The enemies of our country took over our government in a subtle coup d Etat almost fifty years ago. Every president since LBJ has been the corporate fascists occupier’s bought and paid for stooge ever since, and that includes Reagan whether unwittingly or not.

    The first Bush told us the New World Order was coming but no one listened. Clinton put the plans into effect and Dubya and now Obama are planning to finish off the Republic and replace it with the Global Plantation, which the US will be but a part of the global serfdom.

    If the Congress and the Whitehouse are not purged and this cancer as you call it excised we are doomed to become the banana republic police state that is the fate of all the countries under the diktat of the Global masters that now sit in Washington, London, Paris and Brussels.
    This must not happen.

  8. wonder what the goverment would do if we started to shoot down the drones?
    Citizen: well Sir it was hovering above my house i thought it was a terriorist spying on me and my family..
    1st Cop: your being arrested for destroying goverment property.
    Citizen: The Mainstream media said we dont’ have drones flying above peoples’s house and monitering us??
    1st Cop: see i told you people were dumb..
    2nd Cop: yeah, isn’t life grand??

  9. Quotation by jchance:

    “You got to love how they are doing something like this, are too stupid to think that a reporter would notice, and when one does, they freak out because they know what they were doing is wrong. I just wish the people they were using as targets knew that they were being used as such. These drones are flying armed even on training exercises and it is a crime to point any weapon at a person or persons, hence the crime brandishing. These people could sue the military big time if they knew and should. I know I would if I found out and had proof they were using me as a target to practice by.”

    Please post a cite for your declarative “These drones are flying armed even on training exercises.” You’re fabricating things or arguing from ignorance.

    You are an internet lawyer who knows nothing about actual law and you calling other people dumb is rich irony.

  10. good luck to THe NWO you left your self NO WAY OUT.

  11. “Just practicing by tracking Americans driving down the road for the Middleeast” Practicing for martial law and economic collapse. Don’t you feel comforted that a fighter air craft will be ready to blow you into pieces? They had better have a huge army of troops guarding these drone and tactical fighter bases for their own sakes. I know the US Air force bases are easy pickens for armed pissed off patriots. I should know I just to be in the Air Force.

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