My personal memory of 9-11.

[Hammer52]

I was stationed in Mannheim, Germany as the Plans and Exercises Officer for an Air Force unit on an Army post.  The Intel NCO told me to check the TV as a plane had crashed into WTC.  By the time I got to the TV the next plane hit -- I knew we were going to war.  We started coordinating with the Army for Post defense. The Sr Operations NCO started getting all our folks ready since no one knew what would be next. 
That started a very long, yet quick period of planning, coordinating, and deploying.  First we deployed a few operators to support special ops teams in Afghanistan.  About 18 months later I found myself  20 klicks south of the Kuwait-Iraq border commanding over 250 men & women ready to provide close air support to the Army as we made our way North.

Has it really been that long?

[Pathfinder]

Hammer, welcome aboard, glad to have you and for you to share your experience here. When you get a chance, stop by the new member thread and introduce yourself properly. Great bunch of guys here, including active duty folks, plus even more retired servicemen. Hopefully you'll feel at home here.

[bodean87]

I was in the high schooll offfice. Wasnt in trouble ( was probably up to something tho), I was a roll runner. They came in and told us the first plane had hit the tower. We didnt realize the magnitude of what was happening until we were showed the images on tv. We got there just before the second plane hit. That was when the tree of us realized what was happening.

 As a side note, Last sunday at shift change I was getting off duty We had a 4.4 earthquke. Its west Texas we have small quakes that you cant feel but this was the strongest one I have felt or heard. We all ran outside to see where the explosion was. When we realized that nothing had exploded near us, we got to thinking it was an earthquake. One hell of a start to the day.

[philw]

today I heard the podcast about 911 today

now for some reason  I was not able to see the road correctly,  not sure what happened,


very moving MB,   



personally I still remember,  I was living in Sydney at the time watching the late night news ( with Sandra Sully look her up why I watch it) ,  mrs had just got to bed

when she announced the breaking news about a plain hitting the tower and they ended up with video

I got the Mrs up to watch it.

it did not look real,  like a movie,   and I still remember it,  was very surreal  as they were showing the footage of the building live,  we saw the other plane hit

after a bit the Mrs went to bed,  however I stayed up all night watching the footage,   it was very sad time
when I got to work the next day  not much got done and it was all that was spoken about.

for those that don't know I am in IT and an Apple Tech and was doing the same thing in Sydney  a couple of my clients in Syd was the Aust Navy at there base there and also a job at AMEX,  wow how the security arragments had changed with in 3 days of it happening as I was at both sites on the day before and had to go there on the Friday of that week  even though the security knew me, everything had changed, 
I remember the staff at AMEX  had a big board with the names of there missing co-workers,  that was very sad.

not much more I can add,  that has not been said before



may they Rest in Peace
and Lest we Forget........

[tt11758]

today I heard the podcast about 911 today

now for some reason  I was not able to see the road correctly,  not sure what happened,


very moving MB,   



personally I still remember,  I was living in Sydney at the time watching the late night news ( with Sandra Sully look her up why I watch it) ,  mrs had just got to bed

when she announced the breaking news about a plain hitting the tower and they ended up with video

I got the Mrs up to watch it.

it did not look real,  like a movie,   and I still remember it,  was very surreal  as they were showing the footage of the building live,  we saw the other plane hit

after a bit the Mrs went to bed,  however I stayed up all night watching the footage,   it was very sad time
when I got to work the next day  not much got done and it was all that was spoken about.

for those that don't know I am in IT and an Apple Tech and was doing the same thing in Sydney  a couple of my clients in Syd was the Aust Navy at there base there and also a job at AMEX,  wow how the security arragments had changed with in 3 days of it happening as I was at both sites on the day before and had to go there on the Friday of that week  even though the security knew me, everything had changed, 
I remember the staff at AMEX  had a big board with the names of there missing co-workers,  that was very sad.

not much more I can add,  that has not been said before



may they Rest in Peace
and Lest we Forget........

Sandra Sully


You watch Sandra Sully for the same reason I watch Megyn Kelly on Fox News (appropriate name for a network that features Megyn Kelly)........STRICTLY FOR THE REPORTING!!!  (That's my story and I'm sticking to it.....especially since M'ette knows the wife's cell number) 



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