And it has a strong tie to Elizabethton.
Mark Cooter, a retired Air Force colonel, is a 1981 graduate of Elizabethton High School and a 1985 graduate of East Tennessee State University. He is co-author of âNever Mind, Weâll Do It Ourselves, The Inside Story of How a Team of Renegades Broke Rules, Shattered Barriers, and Launched a Drone Warfare Revolution,â by Skyhorse Publishers.
As the book explains, the Predator program was a joint project of the Air Force and the Central Intelligence Agency. Cooter, an intelligence officer, led the Air Force team while co-author Alec Bierbauer headed the CIA team. Michael Marks is the third author.