TheGooner

I’m aware that everyone has their own opinions about what happened and I don’t want to get off into a conspiracy discussion.

I posted this a few years back. It's my experience deploying to the Pentagon after the attacks. We were there for about 10 days.

First off, I’m a local to the BR area, as I graduated from Zachary High in the early 90’s. I’ve worked in Technical Rescue for my entire career specializing in collapsed buildings, collapsed excavations and confined spaces. When 9/11 happened, I was living in ABQ, New Mexico and was a member of NMTF-1 Urban Search and Rescue. We were deployed to the Pentagon on the afternoon of the attacks.

We reached the site late (after extensive security checks) on the night of the 11th and began setting up our equipment.

That night when we took a break some of us sat on light poles that the plane had knocked over.

That night one of our first priorities was to begin filling in a large hole that was located about 50 - 60 feet in front of the damage you all saw on tv. The plane had struck the ground fairly hard there and lost a lot of its momentum.

If you look at an aerial photo of the Pentagon, you’ll see that building is 5 independent buildings with a large outdoor “corridor” between them.

The plane went through the first three buildings. The inside wall of the third building had large hole in it that was made by plane’s front landing gear. If you were inside the third building and walked through the hole (which I did many times) you came out into the corridor that is between third and fourth buildings. The front landing gear damaged the fourth building’s outer wall but did not penetrate it.

Almost all of the plane seats and passengers were piled up just to the right of the hole (if you were standing inside the third building). I didn’t see a single seat or passenger from this area that was wholly intact. It was a terrible scene especially since there was a group of young kids on the plane.

To me the plane seems to have turned towards the left as it went through the building because on the 3rd day our group found the “pilot’s” remains.

The Captains Chair with the harness style seat belt had protected him more than the passengers. He was still strapped into the chair, which was laid over on its right side and nestled up next to a concrete column. He was only missing the lower part of his right leg and his right arm.

There was a slurry type mixture of water from the fire trucks and jet fuel everywhere. We had to keep charged fire suppression lines everywhere because we kept accidentally lighting it on fire.

My main memory though is of being terrified while in inside the building and listening to the upper floors creek and moan. It sounded like it wanted to all come down at any moment.

Sorry for the morbid details but sometimes you need those.

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The UK is meeting its agreed-upon numbers. No one is forcing the US to go above and beyond.

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Their spending is shite.

They only have 6 Destroyers in their entire Navy.

A few months ago only 1 of those were operational.

I don’t get upset about it unless they put the H in front of the W.

Count your magazines.

I Claudius is a complete Masterpiece. However, It looks like they made it for $500 and spent $400 of it on weed.

Poldark is great. I would recommend listening to all of the audiobooks. I would guess that only about 1/3 of the Poldark story makes it into the tv series.

The Durrell’s In Corfu is good.

Wolf Hall is great.

Would also mention Grantchester and Bleak House.

Love getting the Fox Stream interrupted for a JB Pritzker ad.

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eh, slow down buddy Big difference in the old IRA and Adams’ IRA

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The old IRA were commies.

The new IRA are gay commies.

That the 5th dentist actually liked Trident as well but just wanted to be an a-hole.

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Timothy Morgan said he did not graduate from high school, so he is proud to see their excitement about the accomplishment.

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They simply followed an easy path where every single step was laid out for them in advance.

Congratulations on making it through the easiest part of their lives.

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