Michael Krieger
The killings, part of the Obama
administration’s targeted assassination program, are aiding
terrorist recruitment and thus undermining the program’s goal of
eliminating such fighters, the veterans added. Drone operators refer to
children as “fun-size terrorists” and liken killing them to “cutting the
grass before it grows too long,” said one of the operators, Michael
Haas, a former senior airman in the Air Force. Haas also described
widespread drug and alcohol abuse, further stating that some operators
had flown missions while impaired.
Haas also described widespread alcohol and
drug abuse among drone pilots. Drone operators, he said, would
frequently get intoxicated using bath salts and synthetic marijuana to
avoid possible drug testing and in an effort to “bend that reality and
try to picture yourself not being there.” Haas said that he knew at
least a half-dozen people in his unit who were using bath salts and that
drug use had “impaired” them during missions.
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