Marine, you are one sick bastard.
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Why? I don't smoke and I don't live in the WH.My personal life is just that. ;)Those who know don't speak
He said to them, "But now if you have a purse, take it, and also a bag; and if you don't have a sword, sell your cloak and buy one. Luke 22:36
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I've encountered a lot of amazement and wonder about the "Air Defense Response" during 9/11... most of it from non-USA folk.
The simple truth is, the continental U.S. air space is NOT heavily defended in the traditional sense. The image of fighters scrambling like mad from hundreds of alert facilities is a holdover from the 1950's, in the days when the nuclear armed manned bomber was the ONLY true threat to the CONUS. With the advent of the ICBM, the need for large amounts of manned fighter assets sitting alert simply disappeared.
Who is going to attack us with conventional combat aircraft? Mexico? Canada? If the USSR/Russia attempted it, the U.S. response would be nuclear from submarines and land-based ICBM's.
There were a handful of fighter alert barns scattered about, mostly near Cuba, Alaska, and the Northeast, but not nearly so many as people think. That's probably changed since then.
And the biggest factor, as mentioned already, was the massive confusion and the style of the attack.
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Originally posted by tankie View PostWere you on call that day Chogy ?
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