Competition of good-paying jobs is fierce these days, but there is one job sector where they will train you, you can get paid six-figures, and you don't even have to work hard.
No kidding, in the private sector the starting salary is $100,000.

There's just one small catch: You sometimes have to kill children.

For some people that's a deal breaker.

The Air Force has a problem with their drone program.
It seems the drone pilots aren't happy with killing lots of civilians.

Drone pilots in the Air Force are quitting faster than they can be replaced.

There are currently 988 active-duty pilots for the Predator and Reaper drones – the two most lethal unmanned aircraft commonly used for surveillance and strikes. More than 1,200 pilots are needed.
Gen. Welsh says that the Air Force can only train approximately 180 drone pilots a year. But the annual need for drone pilots is closer to 300. And the Air Force loses about 240 drone pilots a year, as drone operators move to other jobs, or leave the military for higher paying jobs operating drones for the drone manufacturers that sell them to the military.

In response the Air Force has doubled the incentive pay for drone operators and is looking at raiding the National Guard for qualified drone pilots.

The manpower shortage in the drone program has gotten so extreme that a leaked internal memo shows that the program is on the verge of failure.

“ACC believes we are about to see a perfect storm of increased COCOM [Combatant Commander] demand, accession reductions, and outflow increases that will damage the readiness and combat capability of the MQ-1/9 enterprise for years to come,” reads an internal Air Force memo from ACC commander Gen. Herbert “Hawk” Carlisle, addressed to Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. Mark Welsh. “I am extremely concerned.”
“ACC will continue to non-concur to increased tasking beyond our FY15 [fiscal year 2015] force offering and respectfully requests your support in ensuring the combat viability of the MQ-1/9 platform,” Carlisle added.
In other words, the Air Force is saying that its drone force has been stretched to its limits. “It’s at the breaking point, and has been for a long time,” a senior service official told The Daily Beast. “What’s different now is that the band-aid fixes are no longer working.”

The standard Predator drone crew is 10 people. In a crunch it can fall to 8.5 per drone.

“ACC squadrons are currently executing steady-state, day-to-day operations (65 CAPs) at less than an 8:1 crew-to-CAP ratio. This directly violates our red line for RPA [remotely pilot aircraft] manning and combat operations,” Carlisle wrote. “The ever-present demand has resulted in increased launch and recovery taskings and increased overhead for LNO [liaison officer] support.

The manpower crunch translates into longer hours, no leave, and damage to their careers. This just compounds the incentive to leave the program.

On the other end of the spectrum, the right-wing news media has never loved our global assassination program more.
Consider this "tasteful" headline from the New York Post in response to a Yemen drone strike that mistakenly blew up a wedding.

Isn't the idea of young lovers and their families being torn apart in a flaming shower of metal shrapnel just HI-LARIOUS!
The editors at the New York Post seemed to think so.
It makes you wonder what tasteful headline they thought of for the Newtown massacre.

Oh wait. That's different.
Those were real people. And by real people, I mean Americans. And by Americans I mean white people.

Muslims don't count.