Apples to Droids

            Robert Nguyen is a fellow colleague and always has reason to his speech. Nguyen is one of the few people in my GOVT 2305 class that covers interesting, relevant, and important topics. In Nguyen's latest blog, he discusses droids operated by trained professionals via remote. Nguyen continues to discuss how using droids is a safer and more efficient alternative than other combat methods; I agree.
            Locations such as Afghanistan, Iraq, and Iran have many terrain features which are not easily to captivate in land combat. Securing key terrain features on mountain tops in order to gain an advantage over an enemy is not always as easy as Hollywood has made it out to be. Having 32(a platoon) lives at stakes while carrying out an operations order is a lot more time consuming and dangerous rather than flying a drone or using other types of droids; However are they more accurate than a soldier with an M-4 (issued guns soldiers use overseas/smaller version of M-16)?
            Many soldiers deal with problems not only overseas, but when they come back. Post Traumatic Stress Disorder has affected more soldiers when they come back home from deployments then actual physical injuries. Many soldiers will go overseas and be under unstable leadership who believe in killing for numbers. Squads will kill innocent civilians and carry drop weapons ( a weapon carried incase of an accidental killing, so that is seems that the civilian was attempting to shoot). The soldiers at the time will feel that the decision made was okay, but when they leave that hostile environment they are able to see their wrongs.
            Due to the statistics shown by my colleague, I believe that droids should play a much larger role in the U.S. military than it does as of late.