Stress and RPAs

A new study on RPA crews indicates their greatest challenge isn't PTSD, it's burn-out from long hours and inadequate staffing. But there's still the dissonance of remotely killing someone half the world away, then, two hours later, taking your kid to a soccer match. 

"We try to select people who are well-adjusted. We select family people. People of good moral standing, background, integrity," said Lieutenant Colonel Kent McDonald, who was also involved with the study.

"And when they have to kill someone, and when they're involved with missions when they're observing people over long periods of time, and then they either kill them or see them killed, it does cause them to re-think aspects of their life and it can be bothersome."

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