Air Force says Bryant is lying

We talked about and to Brandon Bryant last week when he said he killed 1,626 people in his role as a drone sensor operator, and we questioned it at the time. The Air Force said yesterday, yeah, no that’s not true.

In a recent interview, Brandon Bryant told NBC that when he left the active-duty Air Force as a senior airman in April 2011, he was presented with a certificate in which he was credited for 1,626 kills.

But that number represents the total number of enemies killed by his squadron for the 3rd Special Operations Squadron at Cannon Air Force Base, N.M., over several years, Air Force officials said.

The Air Force could not provide a number for how many people were killed in missions in which Bryant participated.

“Only a very small percentage of that [enemy killed in action] total can be attributed to any one crew member when assessing actual kinetic activity,” Air Force Special Operations Command spokeswoman Capt. Belena Marquez said in an email.

Of course, Bryant says it doesn’t matter how many he killed, or that he lied that killed 1600 folks. Of course it doesn’t Bryant.

Even if the Air Force is right, it doesn’t make Bryant feel any less guilty for taking part in lethal strikes.

“I didn’t join the military to kill people,” he said. “I ended up in a position where I ended up doing so — not me personally, but me directly participating in events where that would happen.”

Yeah, so why did you join the military, rock star?

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