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The first time he fired a missile, he killed two men instantly and cried
on his way home.
'I felt disconnected from humanity for almost a week,' he said.
But it was an incident when a Predator drone was circling above a
flat-roofed house made of mud in Afghanistan, more than 6,250 miles
away, that really sticks in his mind.
The hut had a shed used to hold goats and when he received the order
to fire, he pressed a button with his left hand and marked the roof with a
laser.
The pilot sitting next to him pressed the trigger on a joystick, causing
the drone to launch a Hellfire missile. There were 16 seconds left until
impact.
'These moments are like in slow motion,' he told the website.
As the countdown reached seven seconds, there was no sign of
anyone on the ground.
Bryant could still have diverted the missile at that point.
But when it was down to three seconds, a child suddenly walked
around the corner.
The next thing he saw was a flash on the screen - the explosion. The
building collapsed, and the child disappeared.
Bryant had a sick feeling in his stomach, he told the website.
'Did we just kill a kid?' he asked the pilot next to him.
'Yeah, I guess that was a kid,' the man replied.
Thoughts jotted in his diary on uneventful days clearly show the
heavy burden his job was placing on him.
'On the battlefield there are no sides, just bloodshed. Total war. Every
horror witnessed. I wish my eyes would rot,' he wrote on one occasion.
He began to shut himself off from his friends, and his girlfriend
complained about his bad moods.
'I can't just switch and go back to normal life,' he said to her. He
stopped sleeping and began to exercise instead.
One day he collapsed at work, doubling over and spitting blood. The
doctor ordered him to stay home, and not to return to work until he could
sleep more than four hours a night for two weeks in a row.