His issue was that (a) the airspace system had allowed seperate aircraft to conflict, ie, the tanker's airspace is normally kept free of aircraft that are not actively involved in refuelling (b) in the case of the near-miss, the UAV operator was clearly not situation-aware, ie, he did not realise how close he was to other aircraft (c) the spinning UAV was either an inflight system failure that caused it to stall and spin or the UAV pilot lost control. Apart from that, I'm quite sure the F15 pilot will get a job after he leaves, as the maturity of the UAV is still ahead of us.
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