ABSTRACT
This chapter traces several core ways in which disturbed temporality plays out in the lives of British Reaper crews. First, in their rapid cycling between the space of the home and the space of war the crews disturb the delineation between these two places. The second way in which temporality is disturbed by the Reaper crews’ experiences is through their operations. The chapter discusses the division between the home/war spaces to consider how this division is also disturbed by the crews’ experiences of cycling between the two and the impact of chronic fatigue on relationships with their families. It examines how the separation is disturbed by the crews’ experiences of fatigue and the impact that this has on their identities not just as warriors but also as family members. Partly as a result of the blurring of the home/war boundary, and the concomitant blurring of the masculine/feminine binary creating ‘disorientation’, British Reaper crews are experiencing high levels of fatigue.
