Originally Posted by
sandy69
Mabey they should let enlisted people fly the drones, no need to pay an officer to do what most 16 year olds can already do.
There's a little more to it than that.
How many sixteen years have authority to launch missiles on unsuspecting targets...who had better not turn out to be innocent bystanders.
In many cases we use officers to do jobs where the skill itself is not that hard but the ramifications of screwing up are large...junior officers generally have better judgement and perspective, and more to lose, than junior enlisted.