Correct Sky, its much like the situation in Vietnam where helicopters allow troops to be in battle far much more than in WWII or Korea. In Vietnam troops could expect to make contact with the enemy something like 20 days every month where in WWII it was about 1-2 days a month.
Drones allow pilots to fly more missions since its not as physically stressful (no
Gs) and they could (in theory) switch aircraft in flight since landing and basically flight is automated.
Where a fighter pilot gets the call and zips overhead dropping a GBU then goes home since they are out of fuel, this drone pilot is there for the duration of the fight since they have such amazing endurance seeing whats happening and relaying it to the troops on the ground.
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which imo should be seen as fully equal to a physical injury
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500% Agree! I've heard stories on how the DoD has screwed over guys who developed PTSD in the middle of their hitch and couldn't redeploy for another tour.
Of course I've heard stories on them screwing over guys with physical injuries too. I know a guy who was shipped out to Saudi with a severe back injury that required several surgeries to fix.