9/11 military response

Ken CVA868 · Posted: Fri Aug 04, 2006 2:49 am

Vanity Fair has excerpts from the September 11th, 2001 NORAD tapes – both transcripts & actual recordings – included in a piece written by Michael Bronner, an associate producer of the movie, United 93:9/11 Live: The NORAD Tapes: http://www.vanityfair.com/features/general/060801fege01

Through the heat of the attack the wheels of what were, perhaps, some of the more modern pieces of equipment in the room—four Dictaphone multi-channel reel-to-reel tape recorders mounted on a rack in a corner of the operations floor—spun impassively, recording every radio channel, with time stamps.The recordings are fascinating and chilling. A mix of staccato bursts of military code; urgent, overlapping voices; the tense crackle of radio traffic from fighter pilots in the air; commanders' orders piercing through a mounting din; and candid moments of emotion as the breadth of the attacks becomes clearer.For the NEADS crew, 9/11 was not a story of four hijacked airplanes, but one of a heated chase after more than a dozen potential hijackings—some real, some phantom—that emerged from the turbulence of misinformation that spiked in the first 100 minutes of the attack and continued well into the afternoon and evening. At one point, in the span of a single mad minute, one hears Nasypany struggling to parse reports of four separate hijackings at once. What emerges from the barrage of what Nasypany dubs "bad poop" flying at his troops from all directions is a picture of remarkable composure. Snap decisions more often than not turn out to be the right ones as commanders kick-start the dormant military machine. It is the fog and friction of war live—the authentic military history of 9/11.

CVA222 Bob · Posted: Mon Aug 07, 2006 3:04 pm

Excellent read Ken - thanks for posting the link!

9/11 military response

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