USAF UAV pilots get their own Top Gun- when's the movie?

The Pentagon is preparing to graduate its first unmanned- drone pilots from the elite U.S. Air Force Weapons School — a version of the Navy's Top Gun program — in a bid to elevate the skills and status of the officers who fly Predators, one of the military's fastest-growing aircraft programs.

The elite flight schools of the Air Force and Navy are most closely associated with smart, tough fighter jocks. But over the course of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, the MQ-1 Predator and more heavily armed MQ-9 Reaper craft have become, to many people in the Pentagon, the most important aircraft the U.S. has deployed.

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