Rise of the Drones – UAVs After 9/11

[Carsten Wiethoff]

From http://www.democracynow.org/2013/10/25/a...ent_ex_air

Former U.S. Air Force pilot Brandon Bryant served as a sensor operator for the Predator program from 2007 to 2011, manning the camera on the unmanned aerial vehicles that carried out attacks overseas. After he left the active duty in the Air Force, he was presented with a certificate that credited his squadron for 1,626 kills. In total, Bryant says he was involved in seven missions in which his Predator fired a missile at a human target, and about 13 people died in those strikes

How many active squadrons are there?
Compare with the number of drone strikes in Pakistan and Yemen:
http://www.longwarjournal.org/pakistan-strikes.php
and
http://www.longwarjournal.org/multimedia...strike.php

Added together there are about 300 drone strikes from 2007 to 2011. If these numbers are all correct, it would mean that on average more than 5 people are killed per strike. Brandon Bryant estimates 13 killed in 7 strikes, that means an average of about 2.
So I would guess that the real number of drone strikes is much higher than the numbers given by longwarjournal.org, and/or the number of civilian casualties per drone strike is much higher than Bryant's estimate.