John Cathcart served in the United States Air Force for 20 years, retiring in 1998 as a Lieutenant Colonel. During his years as an AF pilot, he piloted many aircraft (including the venerable B-52 and F-111 aircraft). He went on to serve as a military attaché in Colombia and Venezuela. In both countries, he flew the embassy's twin-engine prop C-12: the military version of the Super King Air. While assigned as an attaché, he got a firsthand look at the devastating impact that drug trafficking was having on these two countrie more...
