Posted on Sep 18, 2013
Where were you during 9/11? What has changed in 20 years?
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This question is geared toward those who were in the service when this happened, (Old Guy/Gals I know...)however all responses are welcome.
History (Major)
Terrorism
Osama Bin Laden
Al Qaeda
Experience
Posted >1 y ago
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I was a Marine reservist assigned to Alpha Battery, 1/14 in Aurora, CO. I was also a full-time undergraduate (junior) at the University of Northern Colorado, double majoring in history & philosophy. Because those tasks weren't enough, I had a pair of part-time jobs as a Supplemental Instruction Leader with the university and a retail clothing sales job.
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SSG (Join to see)
Man ya'll have good stories and memories, since I was in college at the time and had never been north of VA, I can honestly say the effect of what was happening was not present for a few days. I remember classes being cancelled and my buddies and I trying to watch TV deciding to start a drinking game where when someone said Twin Towers or WTC we would do a shot. It was a bad day to say the least. I am actually embarrassed now by my actions because at the time New York and the military were not in my vocabulary.
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Cpl Christopher Allen-Shinn
SSG Scott S.: the fact that you're embarrassed now by college boy drinking games regarding 9/11 shows how you've matured since then. Since I moved to NYC in 2011, I've seen how deeply 9/11 affected the community -- and continues to affect it today!
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I was just returning home from my morning PT, 1st Cav FT Hood TX. Turn the tv on and shock there the north tower after the first plane hit, got a quick shower and continue to wach when the second plane hit the South tower; a day I will nerver forget.
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Yes.I was in the middle on the Mediterranean sea on a float with the Navy on the 24 MEU so i saw it on AFES TV.
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I was at Camp Bondsteel working with the 101st. Airborne Div.. I remember the command to lock and load at about 6 pm. In Kosovo.
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I was stationed at Camp Casey, Korea, 1-15 FA. Just got done with a night of drinking, bout to go to sleep when the wife called me in my cell phone and asked if I knew what was going on. 2 minutes later was on full alert and locked down on base
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I separated from the Air Force in 1978. On 9-11-2001 I was living in the Vail, Colorado area programming two music formats on a satellite music network. Our combined formats covered about 45 radio affiliates around the country. As soon as I saw the planes hit the buildings on TV that September morning our entire network went to an all-news mode for several days. I liken the entire time to probably what it was when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor on December 7th, 1941.
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I was on the flight line in VFA 204 arming Aircraft for the days training missions. After the attack on the towers I spent the morning calling weapons department trying to procure Ammo and weapons for the A/C.
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I was stationed in Germany. We had got back from kosovo. I was standing in lin at the shoppett at schinfurt (ledward barracks); I was watching the news on the small television when I seen the caption at the bottom of the screen. It read: AMERICA UNDER ATTACK. It seemed as if my ncoic was watching the same thing at the same time because my phone rang before I could leave the shoppett. We were on lock down for two days. It was a crazy time in my life. The army would never be the same.
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In September 9 2011 I was in Ansbach Germany in my second oversea tour we were at the NCOPD when the 1st plane strike one of towers from there all hell broke loose, I got to go home four days later. We were in lock down.
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I was a civilian working overseas for a charter company taking some interior designers around the Spanish Rivera. We had to go into a local bar to find out what was going on. When we entered all of the patrons looked at us with the painful acknowledgement that America would change forever.
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