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How many people I'd be calmly killing every day? I'd have massive PTSD if I were a drone operator.
From what I've read, a couple of the issues for drone pilots is that they've been killing people who they've been watching for a while, and that they feel personal responsibility if they fail to protect American soldiers.
Well, I don't have statistics about that, but accounts from WWII bomber crews suggest otherwise.
Maybe they were just really good at screening out applicants who would have been likely to get PTSD.
AFAIK, people only started understanding PTSD after Vietnam and it wasn't even called that until the 1980s, so possibly not.
By a strange coincidence (unless you saw it and thus had it on your mind) today's SMBC is about exactly this.