Staff Sgt. Christopher DeLucia checks systems on an unmanned aircraft at Creech Air Force Base in Nevada. The US has 120 drones, 35 aloft at any given time. Tony Avelar/The Christian Science MonitorFrom The Christian Science Monitor:
The service is putting more pilots behind a joystick to fly the unmanned planes crucial to today's wars.
Indian Springs, Nev. - If the Air Force needed a poster boy for the way it is adapting to the 21st century, it has high hopes that a young officer named Captain Bob will fit the bill.
Captain Bob can't wait to deploy in the cockpit of the F-16 jet he's trained to fly, but the Air Force has other plans for the young fighter jock.
As it scrambles to meet an exploding appetite for real-time video surveillance of the war zones in Iraq and Afghanistan, the Air Force is undergoing a seismic cultural shift, adapting to the needs of warfare today while pondering what it might look like tomorrow.
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