The US Army is getting enough drones, official says. Now, it needs to train enough operators.

Getting trained drone pilots down to the squadron level is the next step, an Army official said. Photo courtesy of the 11th Airborne Division The US Army is buying lots of drones to meet its goals of spreading the systems across the service. The next step is training enough pilots to operate them. Army courses and programs, as well as shared soldier feedback, help prepare troops for drone operations. US Army officials say the service has amassed enough small drones to spread them across its formations. Now the challenge is training soldiers to use them. "We fielded 10,000 drones " after the first phase of the Drone Dominance program, Col. Gregory Merkl, the director of drone dominance for the Army, said on Thursday during a media roundtable. "We're in the process of receiving another 30,000 drones currently," he shared.