Word: schwartze
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...Until recently, the Air Force hierarchy had insisted that the men and women "flying" its MQ-1 Predator drones be full-fledged pilots, even as they kept their feet firmly on the ground in Nevada. But General Norton Schwartz, tapped as the service's chief of staff last year by Defense Secretary Robert Gates, felt assigning such rated pilots to drones made little sense after spending $1 million and up to 18 months to train each...
...first class of eight purely drone pilots graduated at Creech Air Force Base outside Las Vegas Sept. 25, Schwartz hailed them as pioneers in a long-established tradition of military innovators. "When the steamship, the tank and, yes, the aircraft were introduced for military application, institutional disorder resulted," the Air Force's top commander explained, noting that the boosters of these new technologies had been derided as "zealots." Those piloting drones from electronic consoles on the ground, he conceded, have "encountered the same sort of resistance, even in our own Air Force...
...novel comes across as more of a literary burlesque than a dystopian drama. There’s no real meat to Atwood’s novel and even the witty funhouse creations leave one hungry for something more substantial than a SecretBurger.—Staff writer Madeleine M. Schwartz can be reached at mschwartz@fas.harvard.edu...
Benjamin P. Schwartz ’10 is a history and literature concentrator in Winthrop House. He is a former vice-chair of the College Events Board. His column appears on alternate Fridays...
...Schwartz ’10 is a history and literature concentrator in Winthrop House. His column, “Get It Together,” will focus on campus affairs and university governance on alternate Fridays...