MH-60 Pilot

“Operate the Army's premier unmanned aerial system, conducting persistent ISR and strike missions. A high-tech warrant career at the intersection of aviation and intelligence.”

The Gray Eagle is a serious platform — it carries Hellfire missiles and a sensor suite that provides genuine ISR capability, and unlike the Shadow, it has actual endurance. You'll go through the same basic warrant warrant pipeline and then specialize on the MQ-1C, which means ground control station operations, mission planning, and sensor management at a level that actual manned aviation warrants sometimes underestimate. The culture is still sorting itself out — are you aviation, are you intelligence, are you fires? The answer is yes to all three, which means you can get jerked around by three different branches depending on the command. Deployment tempo has been high. The sensor exploitation and targeting skills translate reasonably well to the civilian defense contractor world. The manned aviation guys will occasionally say something dismissive about drone pilots. They're wrong, and also the battlefield doesn't care about their feelings.