Remote WarriorResource PortalResource platform • Built for the long view
Practical resources, research, and firsthand perspective for remote warfare veterans, military personnel, families, and those navigating life after service.
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For operators, intelligence personnel, maintainers, mission support personnel, and others who worked through or around remotely operated systems.
For families, researchers, educators, clinicians, policymakers, journalists, and community members.
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Each pathway combines government, nonprofit, community, educational, and peer resources. No account. No intake. No pressure.
Care, education, peer connection, and whole-person support inside and outside the VA.
Resources for spouses, partners, caregivers, children, and the people who serve at home.
Civilian transition, career training, mentorship, hiring pathways, and professional networks.
Benefits, certifications, campus communities, professional development, and continued learning.
Federal, state, nonprofit, legal, housing, and local-resource navigation in one pathway.
Connection, research, education, and recognition centered on remote warfare personnel.
For the working professional
Translate remote warfare experience into civilian capabilities, explore careers beyond the obvious UAS roles, and identify credentials that close a real qualification gap.
Explore career translation →Understand the system
Learn who does the work, how unmanned aviation evolved, and what people with firsthand experience want others to understand.
A day in the life, training, missions, and the home and work boundary for pilots, sensor operators, and intelligence analysts.
Explore roles →02Follow the major breakthroughs that changed aircraft, operations, information, and the responsibilities carried by people.
Explore history →03Read approved, verbatim reflections from people who served inside remote warfare systems.
Read their words ↓Resource directory
Every organization is identified by source type so visitors know where they are going.
Explore VA mental health care, eligibility information, treatment options, and ways to connect with support.
Open resource ↗Find community-based counseling, outreach, and readjustment services for eligible veterans, service members, and families.
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A Discord community where remote warfare veterans, current personnel, and supporters can connect, share experiences, and stay engaged with others who understand the mission community.
Open resource ↗Access trusted support for military life, relationships, moving, benefits, finances, and transition.
Open resource ↗Find education, resources, services, and local support teams for people caring for veterans.
Open resource ↗Review official transition resources for separating service members and military spouses.
Open resource ↗Immediate support
The Veterans Crisis Line provides free, confidential support 24 hours a day for veterans, service members, and their loved ones.
Remote warfare
Remote warfare personnel include pilots, sensor operators, intelligence professionals, maintainers, mission coordinators, and support teams whose work enables operations at a distance.
Remote personnel may conduct consequential missions and return home within the same day. That compressed boundary can be difficult to explain.
Mission type, tempo, schedule, role, leadership, personal history, and access to support all matter.
The shift from operational intensity to ordinary home life can happen in minutes. Families may feel the effects without the context to name them.
Better research and institutional understanding can support healthier teams, more useful resources, and better decisions about readiness and care.
Remote warfare changes where combat happens. It does not eliminate the human consequences of participating in it.
Voices from the community
Anonymous, firsthand responses from the Remote Warrior Voices project. Quotes appear exactly as submitted. Platform and years of service are included only to provide context.
04 currently approved responsesIt’s not just a video game, the years of constantly being geared up for attacks affects you the rest of your life.
Featured story
This documentary examines how remote combat operations can affect the people conducting them and why those effects may continue long after a shift ends.
It offers a direct introduction through Tanner Yackley’s firsthand account.
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Featured book
A firsthand examination of MQ-9 remote warfare, operational exposure, moral injury, psychological strain, and what happens when the effects of war follow operators home.
Research and learning
Remote Warrior connects lived operational experience with psychology, occupational health, human factors, and complex systems.
Accumulated cognitive and psychological demands across an operational career.
How interfaces, missions, schedules, and organizations shape performance and wellbeing.
How people supervise, trust, adapt to, and retain meaningful control of capable systems.
How operators build, transfer, and maintain accurate models of complex environments.
How operations cross the boundaries between work, home, identity, and post-service life.
What cognitive and physiological measures may reveal about workload, adaptation, and recovery.
About Remote Warrior
Remote Warrior exists to make remote warfare personnel visible, connect veterans and families with useful resources, and translate operational experience into better understanding and better systems.
01Make remote warfare personnel visible
02Connect veterans and families with practical resources
03Improve public and institutional understanding
04Advance credible research
05Translate lived experience into better support and systems
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Recommend a trusted resource, propose a research collaboration, invite Tanner to speak, volunteer, or start a conversation about the work.
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Remote Warrior provides educational information and resource navigation. It does not provide medical care, mental health treatment, legal advice, or emergency services.