At first, it seems like Egan's job is disturbing but still better than the alternative. He can kiss his children goodnight, and he doesn't have to worry his plane will get shot out of the air.
But then he and his colleagues begin to get sketchy "signature assassination" orders from the CIA. A signature target is chosen based on information about who their compatriots are, not intel about things they've actually done. The idea is that somebody who hangs out with terrorists is probably also a terrorist. And in the world of Good Kill, these kinds of signature assassinations are happening all the time, at least for a few months in 2010. (There is conflicting evidence about how many such assassinations happened in real life, and when, but it is accurate to say that signature assassination exists.)
At one point, Egan says that the one constant in life is war. "There is always a war," he says, taking one of about nine thousand swigs of gin he downs in the movie. We realize, as we watch Egan's life fall apart, that drones don't take soldiers out of war. In fact, they bring war right to their homes. Egan can never escape Afghanistan, nor the horror of killing innocent people (because inevitably innocents are caught in the blasts). Because the theater of war is in a cargo container just up the freeway from his house. 
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