Major header of the interNational Guard the morning of september 11, 2001, how did it begin for you . Well, it was an ordinary Tuesday Morning as far as we were concerned. The Fire Squadron of which i was a part had participated in eight red Flag Deployment for the previous two weeks and had returned back home early that saturday. So the commanders have given the vast majority of the fulltime force, which was not that many folks at that point in time. A pass for monday to be able to reconnect with their families. So tuesday was really the first time we were kind of getting back to work. driving to work and it was really just very normal. According to nine in the first reports came of it plane hitting the twos the first of the two World Trade towers what did you thanks . We were planning out the week and the month as well looking at our training priorities looking at a range time transitioning to a new phase of flight and so we were working on administration details and getting back int
Families. So tuesday was really the first time we were kind of getting back to work. driving to work and it was really just very normal. According to nine in the first reports came of it plane hitting the twos the first of the two World Trade towers what did you thanks . We were planning out the week and the month as well looking at our training priorities looking at a range time transitioning to a new phase of flight and so we were working on administration details and getting back into her Training Rhythm when a knock came at the door and one of us open up the door and he poked his head in said hey somebody flew into the World Trade center and we looked outside the windows and as everyone remembers in washington d. C. It was the crisp september morning. Lou skies, a very clear day. It was lovely and we looked at each other really puzzled because normally the Weather Pattern is not that different from what they are in new york. We all kind of laughed like what kind of those though mes
A pass for monday to be able to reconnect with their families. So tuesday was really the first time we were kind of getting back to work. driving to work and it was really just very normal. According to nine in the first reports came of it plane hitting the twos the first of the two World Trade towers what did you thanks . We were planning out the week and the month as well looking at our training priorities looking at a range time transitioning to a new phase of flight and so we were working on administration details and getting back into her Training Rhythm when a knock came at the door and one of us open up the door and he poked his head in said hey somebody flew into the World Trade center and we looked outside the windows and as everyone remembers in washington d. C. It was the crisp september morning. Lou skies, a very clear day. It was lovely and we looked at each other really puzzled because normally the Weather Pattern is not that different from what they are in new york. We a
Tuesday morning as far as we were concerned. The Fire Squadron of which i was a part had participated in eight red Flag Deployment for the previous two weeks and had returned back home early that saturday. So the commanders have given the vast majority of the fulltime force, which was not that many folks at that point in time. A pass for monday to be able to reconnect with their families. So tuesday was really the first time we were kind of getting back to work. driving to work and it was really just very normal. According to nine in the first reports came of it plane hitting the twos the first of the two World Trade towers what did you thanks . We were planning out the week and the month as well looking at our training priorities looking at a range time transitioning to a new phase of flight and so we were working on administration details and getting back into her Training Rhythm when a knock came at the door and one of us open up the door and he poked his head in said hey somebody f
lawn of the white house with more on this this incident was seems safe at the moment, but has certainly rattled otherwise quiet sunday afternoon. lucas question eric. it s not often hear sonic boom in the dc area, and that s exactly what people heard around 3 p.m. eastern time. the big boom is a sonic boom coming from an f 16 fighter jet as you mentioned launching the d, c national guard at andrews home, 100 and 13th win the reason they scrambled because there was an unknown cessna. we re told, flying a radically in the dc area ignore radio calls that have 16 was cleared for supersonic and but when the jets responded that cessna the faa says crashed outside of stanton, virginia, which is not too close to dc but certainly a strange twist, but certainly has a lot of people s attention here on a sunday afternoon in washington. there certainly is this especially at that says no 1, 72 or 1, 50, or skyline crashed. it s very odd. we don t know what may have brought that plane down.