Comments by "M Fitz" (@MFitz12) on "VICE TV"
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Air National Guard fighter pilots Heather Penny and Marc Sasserville
After the collapse of the Soviet Union a decade earlier, the resulting “peace dividend” had seen the size of the United States Air Force cut in half, and the standing alert force defending the continental United States (CONUS) was decimated.
As the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 began to unfold, DC Air National Guard pilots with the 121st Fighter Squadron, Andrews AFB, now Colonel Heather Penney and her commanding officer, now General Marc Sasseville were in a scheduling briefing. Not being an alert unit only a skeleton crew was on hand that morning, enough to send up just a 3-ship flight, but no chain of command present, nobody to give them authorization to launch. ANG peacetime chain of command is civilian, going up to the state governor normally, but for this squadron because of its geographic location actually goes to the office of the President Of the United States.
Who was out of town, in Florida.
It was about an hour after the Pentagon was hit when Vice President Dick Cheney – in the White House chain of command – gave the order for the ANG squadron at Andrews to put whatever they could in the air.
Because this unit was not an alert unit, the jets were not armed. No missiles and only a handful of inert training rounds for the 20mm cannon were on board. At this time there were 3 possible bogies. The pair climbed into their unarmed F-16 fighter jets and took off in pursuit of one of them, a Boeing 757 which was reported to have turned-around near Cleveland, descended, and was now heading back towards the Capitol. Two more F-16’s were getting fueled and armed to join them when they were ready, 45 minutes later.
With 'Shoot-to-kill' orders but unarmed. the pair decided before take off they would ram their fighter jets into Flight 93 to prevent it from reaching its target. Sasseville ramming the cockpit and Penny the tail in order to bring the hijacked aircraft straight down. They set up a CAP and worked with Potomic Air Traffic Control to identify possible targets.
It was a suicide mission.
Flight 93 however, had already crashed before they even took off.
Sass and Penny flew several more sorties that day, including escorting Air Force One back to DC later in the day.
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Air National Guard fighter pilots Heather Penny and Marc Sasserville
After the collapse of the Soviet Union a decade earlier, the resulting “peace dividend” had seen the size of the United States Air Force cut in half, and the standing alert force defending the continental United States (CONUS) was decimated.
As the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 began to unfold, DC Air National Guard pilots with the 121st Fighter Squadron, Andrews AFB, now Colonel Heather Penney and her commanding officer, now General Marc Sasseville were in a scheduling briefing. Not being an alert unit, only a skeleton crew was on hand that morning, enough to send up just a 3-ship flight, but no chain of command present, nobody to give them authorization to launch. ANG peacetime chain of command is civilian, going up to the state governor normally, but for this squadron because of its geographic location actually goes to the office of the President Of the United States.
Who was out of town, in Florida.
It was about an hour after the Pentagon was hit when Vice President Dick Cheney – in the White House chain of command – gave the order for the ANG squadron at Andrews to put whatever they could in the air.
Because this unit was not an alert unit, the jets were not armed. No missiles and only a handful of inert training rounds for the 20mm cannon were on board. At this time there were 3 possible bogies. The pair climbed into their unarmed F-16 fighter jets and took off in pursuit of one of them, a Boeing 757 which was reported to have turned-around near Cleveland, descended, and was now heading back towards the Capitol. Two more F-16’s were getting fueled and armed to join them when they were ready, 45 minutes later.
With 'Shoot-to-kill' orders but unarmed. the pair decided before take off they would ram their fighter jets into Flight 93 to prevent it from reaching its target. Sasseville ramming the cockpit and Penny the tail in order to bring the hijacked aircraft straight down. They set up a CAP and worked with Potomic Air Traffic Control to identify possible targets.
It was a suicide mission.
Flight 93 however, had already crashed before they even took off.
Sass and Penny flew several more sorties that day, including escorting Air Force One back to DC later in the day.
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@Cominthroughlikeazoo - Air National Guard fighter pilots Heather Penny and Marc Sasserville
After the collapse of the Soviet Union a decade earlier, the resulting “peace dividend” had seen the size of the United States Air Force cut in half, and the standing alert force defending the continental United States (CONUS) was decimated.
As the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 began to unfold, DC Air National Guard pilots with the 121st Fighter Squadron, Andrews AFB, now Colonel Heather Penney and her commanding officer, now General Marc Sasseville were in a scheduling briefing. Not being an alert unit, only a skeleton crew was on hand that morning, enough to send up just a 3-ship flight, but no chain of command present, nobody to give them authorization to launch. ANG peacetime chain of command is civilian, going up to the state governor normally, but for this squadron because of its geographic location actually goes to the office of the President Of the United States.
Who was out of town, in Florida.
It was about an hour after the Pentagon was hit when Vice President Dick Cheney – in the White House chain of command – gave the order for the ANG squadron at Andrews to put whatever they could in the air.
Because this unit was not an alert unit, the jets were not armed. No missiles and only a handful of inert training rounds for the 20mm cannon were on board. At this time there were 3 possible bogies. The pair climbed into their unarmed F-16 fighter jets and took off in pursuit of one of them, a Boeing 757 which was reported to have turned-around near Cleveland, descended, and was now heading back towards the Capitol. Two more F-16’s were getting fueled and armed to join them when they were ready, 45 minutes later.
With 'Shoot-to-kill' orders but unarmed. the pair decided before take off they would ram their fighter jets into Flight 93 to prevent it from reaching its target. Sasseville ramming the cockpit and Penny the tail in order to bring the hijacked aircraft straight down. They set up a CAP and worked with Potomic Air Traffic Control to identify possible targets.
It was a suicide mission.
Flight 93 however, had already crashed before they even took off.
Sass and Penny flew several more sorties that day, including escorting Air Force One back to DC later in the day.
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