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Old Dec 26, 2010 | 4:18 am
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LuvAirFrance
 
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Originally Posted by FriendlySkies
lol

I wonder if the tsa clerks play this at night?! Perhaps this is the job training?
I don't find that farfetched at all. Didn't I read that drone pilots use video games to train?

Well, I wasn't too far off
(Aug. 19) -- The Air Force is developing a new video game designed to attract young recruits to a crucial, growing career field: drone piloting.

The U.S. military is increasingly using armed combat drones to target terrorists and insurgents in Afghanistan and Pakistan. remotely piloted aircraft, or RPA -- known as drones in popular parlance -- are unmanned, but the Air Force still needs pilots to direct them from a remote base.
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