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Originally posted by cosimus
Originally posted by wenfieldsecret
Originally posted by u2r2h
22:22gmt You think we should stop the exercise? LAUGHTER LAUGHTER.
22:47 american 11 the original guy is still airborne
are those really are the times as quoted....that would make it about 4-5pm in the eastern time zone......obviously well after the hijackings stopped
isnt it the (time)position in one of the released audiofile? cannot say which audio files it is, too much to listen to:
list of released files (3.2gb)
DRM1 DAT2 Channel 10 TT TK.wav
DRM1 DAT2 Channel 12 ACWO TK.wav
DRM1 DAT2 Channel 14 TT TK.wav
DRM1 DAT2 Channel 15 AST Op.wav
DRM1 DAT2 Channel 16 AST TK.wav
DRM1 DAT2 Channel 17 TT Op.wav
DRM1 DAT2 Channel 18 TT TK.wav
DRM1 DAT2 Channel 19 SD2 OP.wav
DRM1 DAT2 Channel 2 MCC Op.wav
DRM1 DAT2 Channel 21 TT Op.wav
DRM1 DAT2 Channel 24 AICC.wav
DRM1 DAT2 Channel 3 MCC TK.wav
DRM1 DAT2 Channel 4 ID Op.wav
DRM1 DAT2 Channel 5 ID TK.wav
DRM1 DAT2 Channel 7 ID2 OP.wav
DRM1 DAT2 Channel 8 ID2 TK.wav
DRM2 DAT1 Channel 20 SD2 TK.wav
DRM3 DAT2 Channel 24 Emerg-AICC.wav
if anyone know which file is worth listen too, please tell me/us, thanks
[edit: overread the 'gmt' above *shame on me*]
[edit on 31-8-2007 by cosimus]
But even if that's the case, they didn't even know the plane was in the Washington area until not long before it hit the Pentagon, and contrary to what you and others try to insist there is NOT a giant group of fighters in DC waiting to intercept anything near the area, and there are NOT massive defenses on the Pentagon.
Originally posted by Zaphod58
Except that you would be scrambling unarmed fighters that could do pretty much nothing except watch it happen, unless you wanted to try to ram the plane shortly before impact and risk two planes crashing into the city, instead of just one, and scattering debris over a much wider area than it was.
The Andrews-based 121st Fighter Sqdn. was not standing alert on Sept. 11, because the District of Columbia Air National Guard (DCANG) unit was not assigned to the North American Aerospace Defense Command air defense force. NORAD had already scrambled three F-16s from their alert base at Langley AFB, Va. to over the Atlantic Ocean, to the east [opposite direction].[ii]
The unit’s maintenance section was notified to get several F-16s armed and ready to fly. Anticipating such an order, Col. Don C. Mozley, the 113th Logistics Group commander, had already ordered his weapons officer to “break out the AIM-9s and start building them up… The missiles had to be transported from a bunker on the other side of the base, which would take a while.”111 This last statement is strange. Senior Master Sergeant David Bowman, 113th Wing munitions supervisor, says, “We were doing it as fast as we could, because for all we knew the terrorists were getting ready to hit us. ... It normally takes three hours to get weapons from the storage sheds and load them onto the fighters."
Fighters in the NORAD Alert Network DO NOT FLY unless they are launched to intercept someone so the excuse that they were alert fighters and on a training exercise doesn't work. And if they were in the Alert Network they would have already been armed, and ready to go, not sitting unarmed in their parking revetments with their missiles sitting across the tarmac.
"…as part of its dual mission, the 113th provides capable and ready response forces for the District of Columbia in the event of a natural disaster or civil emergency. Members also assist local and federal law enforcement agencies in combating drug trafficking in the District of Colombia. [They] are full partners with the active Air Force"
--DC Military (7)
Marine Fighter Attack Squadron (VMFA) 321, a Marine Corps Reserve squadron, flies the sophisticated F/A-18 Hornet. Marine Aviation Logistics Squadron 49, Detachment A, provides maintenance and supply functions necessary to maintain a force in readiness. "
--DC Military (7)
113 Wing
Mission
Our mission is to be Capital Guardians who provide our nation fighter, airlift and support forces capable of global employment, to provide air sovereignty forces to defend the Nation’s Capital, to employ our forces with mastery and lethality, if required, and to enhance the community with support and good will.
Originally posted by Zaphod58
Then why does every document that shows where the alert fighters were stationed NOT mention Washington DC as one of the bases?