Report: Former drone operator shares his inner torment

(CNN) -- Years of aiming missiles at people on the other side of the world left Brandon Bryant a broken man.

October 23, 2013

In an interview with the magazine GQ, Bryant recounts some of the grisly scenes he watched unfold on his monitor as an Air Force drone operator.

In grimly vivid detail, he talks about the first time he killed somebody, in early 2007.

He was sitting in a control station on an Air Force base in Nevada. His three victims were walking on a dirt road in Afghanistan.

After the Hellfire missile fired from the drone struck the three men, Bryant watched the aftermath on his infrared display.

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