‘Drone pilot crisis’: Pentagon promises pay rise to ‘stressed’ operators

[Natural Citizen]

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U.S. Air Force Secretary Deborah Lee James (L) and Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. Mark Welsh III (Chip Somodevilla / Getty Images / AFP)

Drone pilots, as well as sensor operators, are always under “significant stress” during the mission, James said, due to an “unrelenting pace of operations.”

To retain and attract new drone operators, James announced that the Air Force is looking to substantially increase their pay.

“I will be utilizing my authority to compensate and incentivize career RPA-only pilots whose service obligations are expiring. As our experienced operators reach the end of their initial active-duty service commitment we will increase the monthly incentive pay from $650 a month to $1,500 for those RPA pilots while we also explore more permanent incentive plans,” James said at the briefing.

In addition, those who have had drone flight training, served their contracts, and moved on to other areas will be asked to come back to the drone missions world.




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[BarryDonegan]

Killing people is stressful.

[ZENemy]

Cant wait to not pay for it.


http://www.peacetaxfund.org/

[enhanced_deficit]

During Iraq freedom war, there used to be multi flavors ice creams , huge swimming pools and relaxation outlets built in green zone, can't same work for drone warriors to cope with stress?

[thoughtomator]

Killing people is stressful.

Mass murder on a regular basis is even more stressful, I'd imagine.

[muh_roads]

$1500 per month? People that make decisions on whether to take another life are making $18K per year doing this? Must be getting some real brain trusts there.

You can't win. Pay too low and you get people with TitleMax loans who were raised by mothers sitting on their ass watching Judge Judy all afternoon. Pay too much and you create a system that rewards psychopaths.

Lets just stop killing people for fucks sake.

[Tinnuhana]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j5eD2PW2ks4

[Uriel999]

These pussies never even leave the fucking country and the comfort of ac/heat and they are stressed?! They play a "videogame" all day. Kill some people? They want to stress over killing people when they don't even have a threat to their own? Maybe that is it, the hunt is unfair?

Man is a pitiful thing. I hate us.

[Danke]

$1500 per month? People that make decisions on whether to take another life are making $18K per year doing this? Must be getting some real brain trusts there.

You can't win. Pay too low and you get people with TitleMax loans who were raised by mothers sitting on their ass watching Judge Judy all afternoon. Pay too much and you create a system that rewards psychopaths.

Lets just stop killing people for fucks sake.

That is flight pay. It used to gradually increase to a maximum of $650, now it looks like they are trying to get it up to $1500. But the initial service commitment is up to 10 years now I believe. So $18K per year bump isn't for years after they have already been in for a while.

[Slave Mentality]

I don't feel sorry for them.

[Warlord]

I thought the CIA operated the drones?

[DamianTV]

Sorry to interrupt, but has anyone seen my checkbook?