Half a world away, in a secure facility at Ellsworth Air Force Base in South Dakota, American hunters track al-Baghdadi at thirty thousand feet over Syria. Two-person teams of air force drone pilots sit in air-conditioned cockpits that never leave the ground—video screens, joysticks, headsets, padded armchairs. These military people are flying remote-controlled unmanned aircraft over Syria from this remote location in the United States. They are young men and women in flight suits who were just children on 9/11. Though these pilots live at home, buy groceries at the base commissary, drive to
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