re: What were you doing on 9/11?

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spent the next 2 months guarding the elevator to the basin with a 9mm

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whats in the Basin.



Oh i was in Physics class. Heard F-18s and F-16s the rest of the day. I was a cross the river from Barksdale.

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whats in the Basin.

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This was a fixed drydock... giant covered building. The sub pulled in, they closed the drydock gate and drained the basin. So the sub is sitting on blocks... there's an elevator that goes down to the bottom of the basin and that's what I was guarding. They had sent all the other subs out to sea but we had so much stuff removed that we couldn't leave.

Like this:

I was about to go into my Civ Pro class, but stopped by the student break room. Everyone was watching the news as they tried to figure out why the first plane had hit the towers. Then saw the second plane hit the other tower. Professor called us into class for a few minutes to discuss what was happening and then sent everyone home.

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Why is the bottom of the sub Red?

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easier to see when she rolls

seriously though, its just extra rust proofing...That part of the boat is under more than the top 1/4

Thanks for guarding our U-Boats, Terd.

Just got in my car to make a down and back business trip from Shreveport to Baton Rouge. Ten minutes into the drive the radio broadcast was interrupted so I listened to the whole thing unfold on radio. It’s a totally different experience when you have to listen to a description and see it in your minds eye.

I was living in Sydney at the time, so it was about 10:30 at night when it all began. I had just gone to bed and fallen asleep. My wife was still awake and woke me up when the news broke about the first plane hitting. I just assumed it was a little Cessna and rolled over to go back to sleep. Then I hear my brother-in-law yelling and cussing in the living room; that is when the second plane had hit. So my arse was good and awake at this point. We had Fox News over there, and Sky News Australia picked up the CNN feed, so we were switching between the two. I called my folks in Louisiana and we talked for a bit as things occurred. I went back to bed at 3am after Bush gave his remarks at Barksdale AFB because I still had to leave for work at 6am. On the train into work, everyone had their nose in the newspapers and no one was saying a thing. Had the tv on all day at work. Co-workers kind of left me alone that day, being the only American in the place. I guess they didn't know what to do or say to me. My office block was in Bankstown, a predominantly Muslim suburb of Sydney. The streets were pretty empty for about a week after the attacks; I guess they were too afraid to be out in the open.

Was stationed at Barksdale, we were in a base wide exercise with loaded B-52s. Will never forget looking up and seeing Air Force One circling.

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Did they scramble them or leave them on the ground?

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couldn't fly FAA shut down atc


ETA: jk

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we were in a base wide exercise with loaded B-52s


Did they scramble them or leave them on the ground

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there werent b52. There were f18s and f16s all over the sky. I was across the river from there. it was really weird seeing them all screaming across the skys. It calmed down after AF1 left and we realized bush was just there. but they still had a couple roaming around that day.