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Rick Loomis


A Reaper drone aircraft comes in for a landing at Creech Air Force Base in Nevada during a training program to bring more pilots online for an expanded use of drones in the skies over Iraq and Afghanistan as well as for missions elsewhere around the world. (Rick Loomis/Los Angeles Times/TNS)

US NEWS DRONEPILOTS 3 LA

A Reaper drone aircraft comes in for a landing at Creech Air Force Base in Nevada during a training program to bring more pilots online for an expanded use of drones in the skies over Iraq and Afghanistan as well as for missions elsewhere around the world. (Rick Loomis/Los Angeles Times/TNS)

A Reaper drone aircraft comes in for a landing at Creech Air Force Base in Nevada during a training program to bring more pilots online for an expanded use of drones in the skies over Iraq and Afghanistan as well as for missions elsewhere around the world. (Rick Loomis/Los Angeles Times/TNS)

US NEWS DRONEPILOTS 3 LA

A Reaper drone aircraft comes in for a landing at Creech Air Force Base in Nevada during a training program to bring more pilots online for an expanded use of drones in the skies over Iraq and Afghanistan as well as for missions elsewhere around the world. (Rick Loomis/Los Angeles Times/TNS)

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