Watching this documentary again tonight, becoming a yearly thing and no bad dreams afterwards .... They did the best job I've found to date on laying out the timeline, facts and fog and friction of that day.
I got notified about 2200 on the 11th report to 1stAF, Tyndall AFB the next day... on the 12th, ('01) met up others that were key in the AOC (Air Operations Center) work at the time, we had just built and turned over to 9thAF CENTAF the AOC at Prince Sultan Air Base in Saudi in Aug... 5 weeks before this event.
1stAF, a tenant at Tyndall AFB, the Air Component of NORTHCOM. They had the mission to prevent Air attack on the homeland - Big F'ng Opps.
Worked like madmen and got them up and being combat airmen in just over 2 weeks. Flying armed CAP over DC and 9 or 10 the other locations, Including bringing online Pat Batteries and shorter range weapon systems within CONUS, linked, cocked and ready to shoot with the 1st AF/CC as the AADC.... absolutely crazy within our borders.
Home for 3 days and deployed back to PSAB 2 Oct. Then to Jalalabad in mid Nov behind the Devil dogs who secured the airfield for operations.