Retired D.C. National Guard Head Dies in DC Metro Subway Crash [Gen. Wherley]

WTOP ^ | June 23 2009

[HokieMom]

WMAL radio local news during Mark Levin's radio broadcast said that General Wherley was involved in the decision to scramble jets around D.C. on September 11, 2001.

[HokieMom]

Retired Maj. Gen. David Wherley, former commander of the D.C. Army and Air National Guard, and his wife Ann, were among the victims.

Wherley commanded the 113th Wing at Andrews Air Force Base. The couple lived in the Hill East neighborhood and the general could often be seen walking to and from the armory.

He joined the Army reserve as a second lieutenant in 1969. After a brief tour of active duty, he joined the D.C. air guard. According to his National Guard biography, he was deputy operations group commander for fighters in Saudi Arabia. He had logged more than 5,000 hours of flying time and was a graduate of the Fighter Weapons Instructor Course for the F-4.

Wherley was the officer who scrambled fighters into Washington’s skies on the day of the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks.

“Most of our members have lived in the D.C. area for much of their lives,” Wherley said in an interview a few days after the attacks. “To be patrolling and looking down on their homes, that has been an emotional moment.” - Bill Myers

Washington Examiner

[HokieMom]

Thanks for the ping.

[HokieMom]

Was there a problem with your post?

[STARWISE]

I repeated your source ... ;) Duplicate artcle, so no
need to leave it on.

[HokieMom]

Oh, ok. You did say that FOX News had reported this news also. One often doesn’t know when it’s his time to be called home, does he.

[STARWISE]

“Wherley commanded the 113th Wing at Andrews Air Force Base. The couple lived in the Hill East neighborhood and the general could often be seen walking to and from the armory.

He joined the Army reserve as a second lieutenant in 1969. After a brief tour of active duty, he joined the D.C. air guard.

***According to his National Guard biography, he was deputy operations group commander for fighters in Saudi Arabia. He had logged more than 5,000 hours of flying time and was a graduate of the Fighter Weapons Instructor Course for the F-4.***

Wherley was the officer who scrambled fighters into Washington’s skies on the day of the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attack”

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God rest the souls of Maj. and Mrs. Wherley.

[Carley]

How to say thank you for such valorous service?

My prayer is that they know how much they meant to Americans.

[silverleaf]

What a terrible useless death.
We do not know the hour or the day, do we.

[HokieMom]

We sure don’t. Some people may need to do business with God and get ready.

[RDTF]

oh no

[STARWISE]

Amen.

[luvie]

REST IN PEACE
GENERAL WHERLEY
HEAD OF DC NATIONAL GUARD
TRAGICALLY LOST
YOU ARE OUR HERO
*************
AMAZING GRACE
[CLICK]

[Jet Jaguar]

Rest in peace General.

[STARWISE]

Beautiful .. ;)

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

Please FReepers, no conspiracy crap or “Obamacide” comments.

[JerseyJohn61]

This sad news has an extra edge for me. The planes that
the Gen. ordered into the air on 9/11, made two, low
level passes over my location that day. Low and close,
just a few hundred yards off.

I had never been so proud and appreciative of our
Armed Forces as I was at those moments.

Thanks you General Wherley for your service.
Thanks to all of you serving out there...

Sincerely,
JJ61

[RDTF]

that is very beautiful

To think that this man died so violently after living the life he lived is unthinkable and hard to understand.

RIP Sir.

[luvie]

It was an unlikely death for a hero of many fronts.

But...remember...General Patton died in an auto accident.
True he was still in the war zone, but it wasn’t the kind of
death that one would have predicted for him.