I was warming up to your online persona but this last statement really showcased what you don't know. I really encourage you to enlist in the Air Force and only until you work at a combatant command will you really understand how things work.
Tell me what you know about "drones". First of all, with that generic term it tells people like me you really don't know much about "drones"; how they work, how they are employed, limitations, and planning considerations.

Can you enlighten me how letting N. Korea make a bomb turned out for us?

My opinion on other countries with nukes is it's none of our business.  We are not the world police.  Let the UN decide and they can go in and wage war, we will contribute our fair share, but so does all the other countries in the UN.  Keep our troops home unless we are attacked first or asked for help from an ally.

Its true I don't know much about the military.  Never served. I can only guess.  Maybe it was not my place to comment on these things.  Sorry about that I guess my best guesses were wrong on this.   

I was only trying to imagine a military career that would fit my skillset.

We are the world leader,  super power and future of earth.  We are partly the world police. We need to look out for our future interests including preventing threats early.

Its true I don't know much about the military.  Never served. I can only guess.  Maybe it was not my place to comment on these things.  Sorry about that I guess my best guesses were wrong on this.   

I was only trying to imagine a military career that would fit my skillset.

you think?

Would that also include firearm confiscation in the US for all people?  You know to prevent the next active shooting.  Red flags might also prevent a threat early, are you for that law?

If the US were to attack Iran directlly (nuke facility), that would probably be an act of war. 

Say you did join the Air Force, you think just because it's working with drones, you might be kept in the US.  There are tons of support staff for the drones overseas.  The drone pilots may be in Nevada, but it takes someone near the drone to maintain it hardware and software.  Also for the military, there is no guarantee that someone gets the job that they want.  Your ASVAB may state something else, or maybe there are to many drone airmen, so now you're a  cook.

Most drone pilots are actual pilots who are no longer needed in a cockpit.  The skills they possess and knowledge of flying is a better fit than someone who thinks the drone is virtual and can do anything they tell it to.

Not only are drones in need of maintenance, but they also need rearming, INTEL people to handle camera recordings, refueling, transporting between locations for operations and training, satellite uplinks, etc.  If you've never been involved with real world flight operations with manned aircraft, you probably think drones just go up and come down like a consumer drone -- only bigger.

Would that also include firearm confiscation in the US for all people?  You know to prevent the next active shooting.  Red flags might also prevent a threat early, are you for that law?

If the US were to attack Iran directlly (nuke facility), that would probably be an act of war. 

Say you did join the Air Force, you think just because it's working with drones, you might be kept in the US.  There are tons of support staff for the drones overseas.  The drone pilots may be in Nevada, but it takes someone near the drone to maintain it hardware and software.  Also for the military, there is no guarantee that someone gets the job that they want.  Your ASVAB may state something else, or maybe there are to many drone airmen, so now you're a  cook.

I say they can flag you and they have 24-72hrs to prove without a reasonable doubt you are a threat and they have to identify the accuser, no confiscatuon before hand. 

Yup.  It's not video games like how they portray it on TV or movies.  Personally, I'm not a drone pilot, but I've been pretty closely involved with the ISR programs.  In many ways, the "other" drone pilots have it worse.

I'm all for preventive in mental health firearms are a tool.  Not a threat.  Crazy people are a threat.  We need more focus on mental health in this country to fix some of our violence problems. Red flags I have extreme limited support. I say they can flag you and they have 24-72hrs to prove without a reasonable doubt you are a threat and they have to identify the accuser, no confiscatuon before hand.  The way they have it now is wrong, the burden is on you to prove you are sane and they take your stuff.  But that's a bit tangent on this topic.

Yes there might be war with Iran. Better than them having a nuke.

Interesting on drones. There's plenty of IT jobs needed too that was just an example. Again I'm not a military expert.  Was going to work for the DOD but took a different job in private sector.  Regret that a bit but it's in the past.

Interesting on drones. There's plenty of IT jobs needed too that was just an example. Again I'm not a military expert.  Was going to work for the DOD but took a different job in private sector.  Regret that a bit but it's in the past.

We are the world leader,

super power and future of earth.

We are partly the world police.

We need to look out for our future interests including preventing threats early.

I really have to ask, for clarification, on your statements below:

In what, deficit and debt spending?  How not to address the Covid-19 pandemic?

The economy, the military,  the wealth, the technology, the list can go on forever how much of a world  power we are.

You got the US empire right, for super power, but with a rapidly declining future though.

I blame Trump for this.  We reverted back to isolationism.

Who pays for that global service?

We all do,  we pay our taxes.  We get safety and more opportunities in return

Bravo!

Classic words spoken, by the former empires of Rome, Mongolia, Britain, etc.

Former great empires,  We can learn from their fall and continue forever.

What you're stating is still asking a judge to tell the future and make a ruling based on that prediction.  Basically guilty until proved innocent.  So ANY TYPE OF RED FLAG LAWS are unconstitutional.  No "i support it red flag laws, but...".

I've been involved in both worlds, but operationally mostly manned.

My longest-running involvement was in force level and unit level air war planning.  We integrated and supported all the systems that fed INTEL into the planning process, identified targets, assigned those target packages to flying units, managed all the resources involved, disseminated the plan to all coalition forces involved, and tracked the battle damage assessment for completed missions. That would then be rolled into the next planning cycle.  The operation was a 3-day cycle:  Plan, Execute and Reassess.

I might be an IT geek, but the war fighters and I worked side-by-side.  I saw everything they were doing, and lots of things I had access to they never saw.

I won't even go into the compartmentalized systems that launched conventional and unconventional weapons -- unmanned projectiles that you saw nightly on the news striking cities in Iraq.

So, no matter your "skillset," there are jobs that put you in the thick of what's happening.  I'll never forget my preflight briefing before leaving Saudi Arabia aboard and AWACS E-3.  Gaddafi was threatening to shoot down a US aircraft, and he specifically mentioned possibly an AWACS surveillance aircraft, in retaliation for some of Ronald Reagan's recent actions after the Lockerbie Pan Am downing. We were flying within a thousand miles of  Libya -- not sure how close exactly -- well within the range of some surface-to-air anti-aircraft missiles, not to mention if it's an air-to-air missile.  We all breathed a collective sigh of relief when the pilot announced we'd passed outside the threat range.

I was glad we had the ability to see anything in the air at a ridiculous range from our location.   The downer was we had zero weapons systems.  I think we had 2 escort jets for part of the way, but not the entire time. 

The economy, the military,  the wealth, the technology, the list can go on forever how much of a world  power we are.

I blame Trump for this.  We reverted back to isolationism.

We all do,  we pay our taxes.  We get safety and more opportunities in return.

Former great empires,  We can learn from their fall and continue forever.