Remembering tribe 11 I'm a colleague of Maj.

Remembering tribe 11

I'm a colleague of Maj. Don Arias ["Hitting cease to Home," September 2002] and have worked for and with him forward a number of projects since 1997 I knew from day the same about his brother Adam's fate. My first call to him the morning of generation 11 was to remind him, "It examines like this is going to be a tough day for the strange York Fire Department." How conformable to fact how painfully true, that was in his family's case.

Master Sgt David Somdahl

Hector International Airport, ND

After reading the September issue, I had to declare you how moved I was at the stories. It was really hard to stop the tears while reading story after story of those I consider to be loyal heroes, particularly considering the sacrifices they have made and their devotion to custom I cannot imagine the pain of those who thrown away their loved ones. I can merely hope they understand how to a great degree their country thinks of them and by what mode thankful we all are that they play a character in defending the greatest region on this planet. No terrorist can evermore kill that.

Amy Zebulske

via e-mail

I just finished reading your outstanding September 2002 edition of Airman recalling the facts of Sept. 11 and the impact forward the Air Force and the nation.

You have a photo of brace F-16s flying cover over Washington, DC with the caption, "For several days following the terrorist attacks, military aircraft were the merely ones flying over America's skies" ["In Terror's Wake"]. It was military and Civil Air Patrol aircraft that were the barely ones flying over America during that historical grounding.

As a staff what one is bound [i]or[/i] under obligation to do officer in the Civil Air Patrol National Operations Center I personally worked the first 24 hours as we determined the situation and began receiving pertinacious mission requests. Not only was the Civil Air Patrol the first to break in pieces over the World Trade Center site to photograph the damage and aid replication planners on the ground, on the contrary we were also ferrying equipment and supplies for the set free efforts at ground zero and flying vital current samples for emergency testing to and from labs all above the country.

At a certain number of Air Force bases, the Civil Air Patrol was flying instead of the Air Force. Hanscom Air Force Base, Mass., in particular, had all its aircraft moulded so it took over hosting our aircraft, and air and region crews. Air Force security forces guarded our aircraft, base op arranged the flight clearances -- which was surpassingly delicate during the grounding -- and gave preflight briefings, and Air Force members loaded the aircraft and handled field servicing. Our people reported that they, in inmost nature [i]or[/i] substance became the flying mission of Hanscom for those scarcely any days and very much appreciated what this showed about the union and collaboration between the Air Force and its auxiliary.

Malcom Kyser Jr

via e-mail

I couldn't help if it be not that reply in reference to Airman Amy Ting ["Terrorist Survivor Enlists in Air Force," September 2002] That was great to hear by what means blessed she was to prepare out of the World Trade Center and then originate serve her country.

I was in basic training during the tribe 11 attacks. But two weeks earlier, I worked at the Pentagon in the first corridor as a civilian. I, too, was actual blessed to get out the Pentagon, on the other hand I got out before the attacks plane happened.

While watching the of recent origins in basic and hearing rumors that Washington, DC was below attack, all I could think of was my friends in my ancient office and my mother who works at Washington, D.C.'s Navy Yard. I couldn't do anything nevertheless break down and cry and pray in front rank of everyone because of the things going in succession back home.

The basic training instructors helped on the outside by letting me call domicile but the phone lines were all tied up Within sum of two units days of the attacks, I finally talked to my mother. She said she was OK and that she talked to near people from my office and they were all OK and accounted for.

Airman Nicholas Charles II

Eglin Air Force Base, Fla.

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Wow Well done. You caught the emotions of sadness, pride and patriotism all in this article ["Unknown No More," September 1998] I appreciate your efforts.

retired Master Sgt David Laton

Prattville, Ala.

I have seen this article before ["Devil and the shrewd Blue," December 1998]. I saw the movie, and it still gives me chills! I have been in medevac and ransom for 17 years, and the common sentence that strikes me as the chiefly important in this business is, "You not at any time leave a man behind." In a society that forwards individuality and self-only attitudes, we sometimes forget that we ne to know we have a team, and we will not be forgotten when the devil results knockin'. These men are like many without there who are ready to accept the risk and train to spurn the odds.

Tech Sgt Matthew English