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I was active-duty Air Force at Minot AFB, ND. We were in the middle of a nuclear generation exercise, and had our entire fleet of B-52H's loaded to the gills with nuclear ALCM's!!!! When they couldn't find that last aircraft (the one that went down in PA), it was scary as hell to suddenly realize that our base would have made one hell of a target at the time!!!! Needless to say, the "exercise" was immediately cancelled, and preparations were initiated to deploy our aircraft immediately!!! It was scary and exciting all at the same time. It amazes me to hear from all these young people on the forum who were in grade school at the time. It's hard for me to grasp the fact that this happened 12 years ago....still seems like yesterday.
May God Bless every innocent life that was lost. Never Forget!!!
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