Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs)

Drone School, a Ground's-Eye View

"The loping, wooden barracks here look pretty much the same as they did in the 1880s, when soldiers marched off to chase Geronimo and his Apache guerillas. From the open, double-story porches, you can still see the adobe home where commanders planned one of the U.S. Army's final cavalry charges on horseback, 30 years after that.

Just five miles away, on a lonely airstrip on the base's northwestern edge, 225 soldiers, national guardsmen and reservists are training for the most modern kind of warfare. They're learning to fly the unmanned aerial vehicles, or UAVs, which have become so critical to the battle for Iraq. By the end of the year, most of these freshly minted pilots will be in hot zones like Baghdad and Fallujah, using their robot planes to spy on insurgents and keep watch over American troops below."

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Posted by Darren at July 13, 2007 11:14 PM | More from UAV News |