It’s hard to believe that 10 years have passed since 9/11, the tragedy that changed our country forever. All of us who are old enough to remember that day can recall where we were when we first heard the news that a plane had struck the World Trade Center in New York City.
At the time I was stationed at Fort Meade, Md. serving as the Director of Operations for the 70th Intelligence Wing, the Air Force component of the National Security Agency. I had left the Pentagon two months earlier.
On that fateful day we were briefing the Deputy Director of that agency on a new concept called Air Force National-Tactical Integration. The concept was designed to provide nationally-derived intelligence information to combat forces in near-real-time. We never finished the briefing. Mid-way through, the door opened and an aide told the Deputy Director that a second plane had hit the World Trade Center.
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