Into the History Books

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I read with great interest your recent Predator article ("How the Predator Grew Teeth," July, p. 42). It really helped fill in some of the gaps between my experiences and the rest of the story. A career airfield ops officer, I was lucky to get a fair share of early "Predator stink" on me as operations officer with the provisional operations squadron at Taszar AB, Hungary, where early Predators were based in 2006.rnDuring my rather austere deployed experience at Taszar, I was involved firsthand with what you described as the Predator's "inauspicious start." I believe it was at Taszar that the Army officially transferred the program to the Air Force, with USAF Maj. Gen. Ken Israel, the then director of the Defense Airborne Reconnaissance Office, on hand to make the appropriate historical remarks and cut the cake.