Can we just back up a minute here and comment on this.
I’ll take her story at face value. It may not be true, but if it is, who made the decision for us to be defenseless in our own nation?
Boy I’d like to see the chain of command on that one, and prosecute anyone who allowed us to be that vulnerable.
That’s just criminal negligence. Makes me furious if true.
And now the terrorists know that it takes an hour to arm our planes....and why are there no planes locked and loaded to be ready at a minute’s notice.
I don’t know if I believe all of this story; I think their mission was to blow the plane out of the sky but it sounds so much better to say, they would ram it and go down with the passengers...
I had a whole list, that I posted here between 9-12 and mid-October, 2001, of what should have been done right away on 9-12.
Item #1 was to confer a posthumous commission in the Unorganized Militia of the United States on Todd Morgan Beamer, so he would be eligible for the Medal of Honor.
Item #2 was to take Zacharias Moussaoui to the corner of Broadway and Liberty streets, put him up against a wall, and shoot him.
It was a long list.
That’s kind of odd that this would get posted. You see one of my strongest memories of 9/11 involves fighter jets. My place of work is 5 miles away from an ANG base. I work nights. All I could hear all night was F-16’s just like the one in the photo taking off and going full afterburner after “wheels up” on combat air patrol. By that time they were probably armed to the teeth. That, and the KC-135’s going up to refuel the fighters. All night long. Watching the running lights drawing huge circles in the sky.
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She has no reason to lie.
I was under the impression we always had a few Air Force fighter jets at select bases ready and armed at a moments notice to defend our homeland...
Do you recall the "Peace dividend?" This is how we were saving up the money to squander on free stuff for free-loaders.
I believe the story is apocryphal. It’s hard to imagine that on the whole eastern seaboard not one Jet was scramble ready and armed.
I first thought the Jet may have been shot down, but they played it as the passengers were hero’s.
I don’t think that type of order can be given, more in the moral sense then legal and quite frankly if it was, they would have to hold a gun to their head — which would be pointless if you think about it.
Yes, heads should have rolled at Norad.
Back when men were men and sheep were afraid we had Air Defense.... I remember back in 74 we had two F106 Delta Darts that had such a scramble mission and were very very fast to get airborne. The hanger doors flew up front and back as pilots dove into the cockpits and crew chiefs etc were claiming the remove before flight pins and chocks etc ....
As power was applied, rolling, clear of the hanger canopy came down and within 5 minutes from the klaxon they were airborne from Davis Monthan AFB in Tucson AZ chasing suspect threat.
http://www.f-106deltadart.com/adc.htm
Supposedly after Air Defense Command was deactivated the mission was “shared” ..... 9-11 caught shared resources sparse IMO.
Stay Safe D1 ....
This story was told by both her and her commander some years ago on one of the many 9/11 shows. The cmdr was also on another show.
I watch all these shows every year. Basically, there were 6 planes directly involved, a pair each from RI, Langley, and this DC NG. Only the NG wasn’t armed, and i guess they were called out because the Langley went the wrong way to the ocean when 77 was thought to come in, then the concern about 93. They had no idea what to do or who was a threat exactly until too late.
Watch the shows, you’ll be pretty much in the know. It is also what angers me to no end about those Truthers. All they need do is watch the real-time videos.