The Last Man Inside The Drone Base -- War Is Boring
Bryan William Jones was one of the last photographers with access to the U.S. military’s secretive facility for armed robots
Creech Air Force Base in Nevada is where the Pentagon trains the operators of its expanding force of globe-spanning, armed drone warplanes — and where many of these operators steer and monitor front-line Predator, Reaper and Sentinel drone missions remotely via satellite.
In 2009 the military ended journalists’ access to Creech after a Washington Post story revealed embarrassing vulnerabilities in the robots’ satellite links. A year earlier Medium contributor Bryan William Jones was perhaps the final photographer to be allowed to take pictures of Creech’s people, machines and facilities — and to observe the killer drones in action against terrorists and insurgents.
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My Comment: This prohibition against reporters is understandable. The base is a critical component in America's war against Islamic radicals .... and as such it is probably a high value target for these groups.
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