C-130H pilot/copilot visual recon on Sept. 11th - any further info ?

(John S. Shinal) wrote in message ...
In listening to the 9/11 Commission's report on CSPAN, I was
amazed by the fact that a C-130H just getting airborne was diverted to
recon the Pentagon attack, and then also reconned the crash site in
Pennsylvania. That's a busy morning.

While understanding the crew may want to stay anonymous, does
anyone have any details on this mission they can share ? Were any
awards made, etc ?

I was also pretty impressed that Langley scrambled in six
minutes from what appeared to be no notice.

Any conspiracy rants will be ignored, but I'd welcome
intelligent discussion about the report.



Lt. Col. Steve O'Brien was the commander of the C-130:


http://news.minnesota.publicradio.or...irguardmuseum/

TJ

After an exhausting session with Victoria's Secret Police, TJ
confessed the following:

Lt. Col. Steve O'Brien was the commander of the C-130:

AKA OB (oh-bee)...a good guy. I didn't know he was the AC.

Robey

Without trying to finger point, I find it a little embarrassing that our
military, with its capability of developing contingency plans for coping with
****ant countries like Granada, Kosovo, and probably Monaco, hadn't gotten
around to thinking outside the box enough to deal with flying Boeing 676 jet
fuel bombs. It now seems that there was a little advance notice about that
kind
of attack developing. Unfortunately, for whatever reason, that "heads up"
warning from the spooks never got to the guys responsible for putting
together
plans and procedures for dealing with such eventualities.

George Z.


Heard somewhere recently that the Atlanta olympics DID have plans to deal with
suicide aircraft.

I haven't heard that in connection to the 9/11 hearings disclosures about
NORAD/FAA actions this week. All you heard was "no one ever thought of this,
or planned for it."

Walt