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Archive Home > 2012 > July > 30 > A day job spent waiting for a kill shot a world away

A day job spent waiting for a kill shot a world away

Drones, in addition to altering warfare, are changing the lives of their pilots

By Elisabeth Bumiller / The Bulletin
July 30, 2012

HANCOCK FIELD AIR NATIONAL GUARD BASE, N.Y. — From his computer console here in the Syracuse suburbs, Col. D. Scott Brenton remotely flies a Reaper drone that beams back hundreds of hours of live video of insurgents, his intended targets, going about their daily lives 7,000 miles away in....

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