{"id":23762,"date":"2016-03-19T17:16:34","date_gmt":"2016-03-20T00:16:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/03\/why-the-us-has-a-shortage-of-military-drone-pilots"},"modified":"2017-06-04T20:05:30","modified_gmt":"2017-06-05T03:05:30","slug":"why-the-us-has-a-shortage-of-military-drone-pilots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/03\/why-the-us-has-a-shortage-of-military-drone-pilots","title":{"rendered":"Why the US has a shortage of military drone pilots"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/why-the-us-has-a-shortage-of-military-drone-pilots.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Hmmm; could I set up a subcontracting firm full of top gun gamers\/ pilots working with the US DoD? We see privatized Army, etc. And, with drones it\u2019s more about the skills of a gamer meets military strategy as a former pilot. Maybe some possibility with the right funding and clearance checks in place on drone pilots.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>But in many ways this is not like most other aircraft. The MQ-9 Reaper is the U.S. Air Force\u2019s most advanced drone or \u201cremotely piloted aircraft\u201d in use today.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cctv-america.com\/2016\/03\/18\/why-the-us-has-a-shortage-of-military-drone-pilots\">http:\/\/www.cctv-america.com\/2016\/03\/18\/why-the-us-has-a-shor...one-pilots<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hmmm; could I set up a subcontracting firm full of top gun gamers\/ pilots working with the US DoD? We see privatized Army, etc. And, with drones it\u2019s more about the skills of a gamer meets military strategy as a former pilot. Maybe some possibility with the right funding and clearance checks in place on [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":395,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1488,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23762","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-drones","category-military"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23762","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/395"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23762"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23762\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67957,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23762\/revisions\/67957"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}