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This week in American power projection: the map was wrong, the dorms were fine, and the travel card was for official purposes.
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SAN ANTONIO, TX – “Fighting in modern warfare has far more in common with video games than any previous conflict,” Senior Airman Ethan Miller told some guy that he was talking to at the bar, according to witnesses.
Miller, an 18-year old drone operator, is back from his first ‘deployment’ to Afghanistan, a trying experience in which the airman flew a remotely piloted aerial vehicle based at Kandahar Air Base from his air-conditioned building and adjustable bucket seat in Randolph AFB, just outside of San Antonio.
“You see,” Miller continued, “The media tries to paint this picture of war as all bloody and visceral, like that one picture of that one Marine in Fallujah with the bloody face and the cigarette, but that’s all just propaganda man. Proper, modern warfare is a lot more like playing Command and Conquer."
"The bad guys are just pixels on the screen and I click a mouse to make them disappear! Ba-boom baby!" he added, before raising his fist to the man and asking him to "pound it."
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