
National Bird
HEATHER:
You were omniscientin people's lives.
And you've literally just
kind of hover over their area.
And sometimes you would
watch them for days
and then you'd have intel that...
That this guy is a bad guy.
And you would wait
until he walks out
to the field to meet with
some friends for something
and you'd blow him up.
Drop a hellfire missile on him.
Are you guys going to have
anything to drink tonight?
WOMAN:
Uh, yes,water [inaudible].
All right, here you go.
there if you wanna grab one.
Thanks guys, have a good night.
HEATHER:
I originally wasinterested in the Navy
guy that I was dating
had been in the Navy.
And I was like, oh, maybe
I'll just join the Navy.
And you know, travel
and see the world.
protect people from terrorists.
And I ended up being
recruited into the Air Force
because I actually saw the
posters with the drones.
and I was like, "Wow,
that is so cool."
Like, unmanned aircraft,
like, that's really badass.
And I was still, like, under
the impression that America
was saving the world.
Like, that we were
big brother and we
So when I saw this possibility
that I could get out of,
like, this small town that I was
in, and get out of Pennsylvania
and... and just travel,
and... and I thought that
was the only way to do it.
And they didn't make it
seem like you wouldn't
be... that one of your only
options of places to go
is Afghanistan.
[beeping]
MAN:
Titan 1-4,hold your position.
What have you got?
Unmanned aircraft is
identifying enemy sniper.
Copy that.
Let's move.
HEATHER:
I was inthe military prior
I got out two years ago.
I was in Air Force Intelligence.
I flew the drones.
I was part of a unit that...
We fought in Afghanistan.
And I've lost
friends to the war.
I've lost friends to suicide
that were a part of that unit.
And I've seen a lot of
people die in the war.
So for me I brought to
And just absolute despair.
And memories, like,
horrible memories.
And along with
that is an anxiety
disorder and a sleep disorder.
And I thought, you know, I came
here I think, subconsciously
looking for healing for myself.
To be able to find
something that in learning
It was like slow
motion. And it was
like, you're watching
someone just drag
themselves across the field.
When you watch someone
how they're reacting
and what they're doing,
[sighs] it's so primitive.
It's really raw,
stripped down death.
That's what it is.
This is real. Like,
this isn't... it's not a joke.
I have specific memories of many
of them that I know I killed.
But it's so messy and, like,
they don't report it down to us
who we kill.
Maybe we kill our objective,
maybe we kill a guy who
we thought was our objective.
You don't know.
And I can say the drone program's
wrong because I don't know
how many people I've killed.
After we do a strike I
would ask for a break
and, like, go outside and smoke
a cigarette and just think.
And like, try to
decompress and just try
to push the, like, idea that
I was involved in killing
people out of my mind.
And I try not to think about it.
Sometimes if I
couldn't really get out
of the situation for very long,
I would just go to the bathroom
and... and just
sit on the toilet.
Like just sit there in my
uniform, and just, like, cry.
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