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8:48 a.m. September 11, 2001: Barksdale Air Force Base, Louisiana, Is Participating in an Exercise Based around a Simulated Nuclear Attack
Personnel and aircraft at Barksdale Air Force Base in Louisiana are participating in the annual US Strategic Command (Stratcom) exercise Global Guardian (see 8:30 a.m. September 11, 2001) when the first crash at the World Trade Center is reported on television. [US Department of Defense, 5/1997; Times-Picayune, 9/8/2002]
Nuclear Weapons Are Being Loaded onto Bombers - Global Guardian is based around the scenario of a rogue nation attacking the United States with nuclear weapons. At Barksdale, according to journalists Eric Schmitt and Thom Shanker, air crews taking part in the exercise have been "pulling nuclear bombs and missiles out of their heavily guarded storage sites and loading them aboard B-52s" this morning. Real, live nuclear weapons are being used, but "their triggers [are] not armed." [Schmitt and Shanker, 2011, pp. 22] "We were in the midst of this big annual exercise called Global Guardian. They loaded all the bombers, put the submarines out to sea, put the [intercontinental ballistic missiles] at nearly 100 percent," Lieutenant General Thomas Keck, commander of the 8th Air Force at Barksdale, will later recall. "It was routine, you did it every year," he will add. [Politico Magazine, 9/9/2016]
Officers Realize America's Security Is at Risk - Colonel Mike Reese, director of staff for the 8th Air Force, is monitoring several television screens at the base as part of the exercise when he sees CNN cut into coverage of the first crash at the WTC, two minutes after it happens (see 8:48 a.m. September 11, 2001). He will see the second hijacked plane crashing into the WTC live on television at 9:03 a.m. (see 9:03 a.m. September 11, 2001). He will recall that at this point: "[W]e knew it wasn't a mistake. Something grave was happening that put the nation's security at risk."
Exercise Participants Switch to Defending the Base - The New Orleans Times-Picayune will describe how awareness of the real attacks impacts those participating in the exercise, stating: "Immediately their focus turned to defense, securing Barksdale, Minot [North Dakota], and Whiteman [Missouri] air force bases, where dozens of aircraft and hundreds of personnel were involved in the readiness exercise 'Global Guardian.' The exercise abruptly ended as the United States appeared to be at war within its own borders." [Times-Picayune, 9/8/2002]
Air Force Becomes Concerned about a Plane Being Crashed into the B-52s - The Air Force will be particularly concerned that terrorists might try to crash a hijacked plane into the B-52s with nuclear weapons on board that are on the tarmac at Barksdale. Although an attack of this kind would not set off a nuclear blast, it could cause a large explosion. "You would destroy half of Bossier City, Louisiana, with the explosions," Al Buckles, Stratcom's deputy director for operations, will comment. He will add: "That would have been a way to really cripple us. All these nuclear weapons were exposed." [Omaha World-Herald, 9/9/2016] Four A-10s, aircraft not designed for air-to-air combat, from Barksdale's 47th Fighter Squadron, will be placed on "cockpit alert," the highest state of readiness for fighter pilots. "Within five minutes," according to the Times-Picayune, "the A-10s, equipped only with high-intensity cannons, could have been launched to destroy unfriendly aircraft, even if it was a civilian passenger airliner." Lieutenant Colonel Edmund Walker, commander of the 47th Fighter Squadron, and a novice pilot still in training will be sitting in their jets, ready to take off, when they are ordered back to the squadron office. They will be told they are no longer practicing. Walker will recall: "We had to defend the base against any aircraft, airliner, or civilian. We had no idea. Would it fly to the base and crash into the B-52s or A-10s on the flight line?" [Times-Picayune, 9/8/2002] When Air Force One with President Bush on board takes off from Sarasota, Florida, at around 9:55 a.m. (see 9:54 a.m. September 11, 2001), it will initially have no fixed destination. But after a short time, it will begin heading toward Barksdale Air Force Base and land there at 11:45 a.m. (see 11:45 a.m. September 11, 2001). [9/11 Commission, 7/24/2004, pp. 39, 325]
Entity Tags: Barksdale Air Force Base, Edmund Walker, Thomas Keck, Global Guardian, Mike Reese, Alfred Buckles
Timeline Tags: Complete 911 Timeline, 9/11 Timeline
9:00 a.m. September 11, 2001: Commander at Barksdale Air Base Thinks First Crash Is an Exercise Simulation
Thomas Keck. [Source: US Air Force]When Lieutenant General Thomas Keck, the commander of the 8th Air Force at Barksdale Air Force Base in Louisiana, is told that a plane has crashed into the World Trade Center, he mistakenly thinks this is a simulated scenario as part of a training exercise. [2d Bomb Wing, 6/30/2002, pp. 40 ; American History, 10/2006 ] Barksdale is one of a number of Air Force bases where aircraft and personnel are currently participating in the exercise Global Guardian (see 8:48 a.m. September 11, 2001). [Times-Picayune, 9/8/2002] This annual exercise is run by the US Strategic Command (Stratcom) and aims to test the command's ability to fight a nuclear war (see 8:30 a.m. September 11, 2001). [Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, 11/1/1997; Omaha World-Herald, 2/27/2002; Omaha World-Herald, 9/8/2002; GlobalSecurity (.org), 4/27/2005]
Keck Thinks Crash Is a 'Scenario Injection' - Keck is sitting in a windowless command center at Barksdale, monitoring the base's participation in Global Guardian. Ground crews are practicing getting a fleet of B-52 bombers fueled, armed, and ready to get airborne for bombing runs. Keck watches on a monitor as, at exactly 9:00 a.m., an alarm sounds across the base and the crews rush to their planes. Then a younger officer taps him on the shoulder and tells him, "Sir, we just had an aircraft hit the World Trade Center." Keck mistakenly thinks the officer is describing a simulated crisis that is being included in the exercise. He says: "That's not the way you interject a situation into a training exercise! When you have a scenario injection, you say, 'Sir, this is an exercise input,' and then you give me the information." But the younger officer replies, "No, sir," and points at a television showing CNN, which is broadcasting live coverage of the burning WTC in New York.
Keck Thinks First Crash Is an Accident - Keck's initial thought upon seeing the TV coverage is reportedly, "How could such a terrible accident happen?" It is only when Keck sees the second plane hitting the WTC at 9:03 a.m. that he will realize the US is under attack. He then yells to his staff, "Lock it down," thereby signaling that the exercise is over. [American History, 10/2006 ] (However, according to an article in The Bombardier, the newspaper for Barksdale Air Force Base, Stratcom will put Global Guardian on pause at 9:11 a.m. (see 9:11 a.m. September 11, 2001), but only terminate the exercise at 10:44 a.m. (see (10:44 a.m.) September 11, 2001). [Bombardier, 9/8/2006 ] ) After seeing the second crash, Keck will leave the command center from where he has been monitoring the exercise and go to the 8th Air Force battle staff, to be briefed on reports coming from Air Force headquarters about the ongoing terrorist attacks. He will later on accompany President Bush while he is at Barksdale, after landing there on Air Force One at about 11:45 a.m. (see 11:45 a.m. September 11, 2001). [American History, 10/2006 ]
Entity Tags: Global Guardian, Barksdale Air Force Base, Thomas Keck
(Between 9:45 a.m. and 9:56 a.m.) September 11, 2001: Counterterrorism 'Tsar' Clarke Initiates Continuity of Government Plan
At some point after the White House is ordered to evacuate and while Air Force One is preparing to take off in Florida, counterterrorism "tsar" Richard Clarke activates the Continuity of Government (COG) plan. The coordinator for Continuity of Government has joined Clarke in the White House Situation Room. Clarke asks, "How do I activate COG?" Recalling this conversation, he will later comment, "In the exercises we had done, the person playing the president had always given that order." But the coordinator replies, "You tell me to do it." Soon after, Clarke instructs him, "Go." [Clarke, 2004, pp. 8]
First Time COG Plan Activated - The Continuity of Government plan, which dates back to the Reagan administration, had originally prepared to set up a new leadership for the US in the event of a nuclear war. This is apparently the first time it has ever been put into effect. Clarke will recall, "Every federal agency was ordered… to activate an alternative command post, an alternative headquarters outside of Washington, DC, and to staff it as soon as possible." Cabinet officers are dispatched around the country, and people in Congress are taken to alternative locations.
Clarke Regularly Particiated in COG Exercises - Since the 1980s, Clarke has in fact been a regular participant in secret COG exercises that rehearsed this plan (see (1984-2004)). [Washington Post, 4/7/2004; ABC News, 4/25/2004] Vice President Dick Cheney and Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld also participated (see 1981-1992). [Atlantic Monthly, 3/2004] Kenneth Duberstein, formerly President Reagan's White House chief of staff, who took part in the exercises as well, will recall: "I said to myself, as we proceeded through the day [of 9/11], 'It's working.' All those days of patriotic duty were coming back and they were working." According to ABC News, "If executive branch leaders and large numbers of congressmen had been killed in an attack on the United States, the plan could have gone further, officials suggest, perhaps even with non-elected leaders of the United States taking control and declaring martial law." [ABC News, 4/25/2004] According to a White House timeline of the events of 9/11, it is in fact Cheney that "orders implementation of Continuity of Government and Continuity of Operations procedures," at 9:55 a.m., although, according to the Washington Post, Cheney only "officially implemented the emergency Continuity of Government orders," rather than activating the plan. [White House, 2001; Washington Post, 1/27/2002]
Entity Tags: Richard A. Clarke, Continuity of Government, White House, Kenneth Duberstein
Timeline Tags: Complete 911 Timeline, 9/11 Timeline, Civil Liberties
9:54 a.m.-11:45 a.m. September 11, 2001: White House Situation Room Is Unable to Communicate with Air Force One
Scott Heyer. [Source: T.J. Kirkpatrick / MCT]Scott Heyer, a communications officer in the White House Situation Room, is unable to contact Air Force One, the president's plane, as it travels from Florida to Louisiana. [9/11 Commission, 3/16/2004] Air Force One takes off from Sarasota, Florida, with President Bush on board at 9:54 a.m. (see 9:54 a.m. September 11, 2001) and lands at Barksdale Air Force Base in Louisiana at 11:45 a.m. (see 11:45 a.m. September 11, 2001). [New York Times, 9/16/2001; 9/11 Commission, 7/24/2004, pp. 39, 325] Personnel in the Situation Room, meanwhile, are working hard to keep information flowing to key White House officials. [McClatchy Newspapers, 8/29/2011] Heyer tries to establish contact with Air Force One, which is equipped with state-of-the-art communications systems, over an ultra-high-frequency (UHF) data circuit. This system can be used for voice communications, faxes, and computer communications with the president's plane while it is airborne. However, Heyer will later recall, the UHF data circuit "was failing." Heyer tries calling the Inmarsat satellite phone on Air Force One, but the line is busy. [Inside the White House, 9/1998; Hardesty, 2003, pp. 167; 9/11 Commission, 3/16/2004] A communicator on the plane will in fact later comment that on this day, "Inmarsat was clobbered immediately after the attack." [SpaceNews, 5/18/2011] Heyer waits to hear back from Air Force One, but receives no communications from the plane while it is flying from Sarasota to Barksdale Air Force Base. [9/11 Commission, 3/16/2004] Bush will complain to the 9/11 Commission about his inability to make communications while he is on Air Force One today (see (9:54 a.m.-2:50 p.m.) September 11, 2001). [9/11 Commission, 6/17/2004]
Entity Tags: Scott Heyer
(10:20 a.m.) September 11, 2001: Air Force One Heads toward New Destination of Barksdale Air Force Base
President Bush's travels on 9/11. [Source: Yvonne Vermillion / MagicGrapix.com]Air Force One begins heading for Barksdale Air Force Base in Louisiana after the base is identified as a suitable interim destination for the president's plane. [9/11 Commission, 7/24/2004, pp. 325] Washington, DC, was the plane's original destination. [White House, 8/29/2002; Lompoc Record, 9/11/2011] But after taking off from Sarasota-Bradenton International Airport in Florida without a fixed destination (see 9:54 a.m. September 11, 2001), Air Force One changed course at around 10:10 a.m. and headed west (see (10:10 a.m.) September 11, 2001). This was because it had been determined that Washington was too unsafe for President Bush to return there (see (9:55 a.m.-10:04 a.m.) September 11, 2001). [9/11 Commission, 7/24/2004, pp. 39, 325] At that time, the plane's new destination was undecided.
Military Base Sought for President to Make a Statement - Andrew Card, Bush's chief of staff, who is with the president on Air Force One, will later recall, "And so we started looking at potential Air Force bases or Navy bases where we could land the plane." [White House, 8/16/2002] Mark Rosenker, the director of the White House Military Office, will recall that Card comes up to him in the communications area of the plane and says, "We need to find a facility, a base that we can get to in a relatively short period of time so that the president can make a statement." [White House, 8/29/2002]
Secret Service Told of Bush's Desire to Land - Card will recall: "I had a goal of landing the plane within an hour and a half. It was somewhat arbitrary, but I wanted to get the president down." [White House, 8/16/2002] Card similarly tells Edward Marinzel, the head of the president's Secret Service detail, that Bush wants to land so he can make a statement to the press. It is also noted "that the stop would provide an opportunity for the airplane to be refueled and those on board to effect necessary communication," Marinzel will say. [United States Secret Service, 2001]
Offutt Air Base Rejected as Destination - Lieutenant Colonel Thomas Gould, Bush's military aide, quickly researches the possibilities. [9/11 Commission, 7/24/2004, pp. 325] The first plan that is considered, according to Rosenker, is to fly all the way out to Offutt Air Force Base in Nebraska, but this idea is dismissed because it would take too long to get there, and it is "very important to the president to address the nation and make sure that the people could see that he was safe and in total control of the situation." [White House, 8/29/2002] (Air Force One will in fact head to Offutt later in the day, landing there at 2:50 p.m. (see 2:50 p.m. September 11, 2001).)
Barksdale Makes 'the Greatest Sense' - Instead, at around 10:20 a.m., Gould identifies Barksdale Air Force Base as "an appropriate interim destination," according to the 9/11 Commission Report. [9/11 Commission, 7/24/2004, pp. 325-326] Rosenker will recall: "Barksdale made the greatest sense to us. It was a highly secure Air Force base, had B-52s there; they had the capability to do what was necessary to secure Air Force One and to make sure that the president was safe, and make sure that we could provide the appropriate communications facility so the president could make his statement." [White House, 8/29/2002]
Bush Agrees with Decision to Head to Barksdale - The final decision to head to Barksdale Air Base is made by Card, "after talking to the military and the Secret Service," according to White House press secretary Ari Fleischer. [Fleischer, 2005, pp. 142] Bush agrees with the decision and Barksdale becomes his plane's new destination. [Bush, 2010, pp. 130; Rove, 2010, pp. 255] Air Force One will land at Barksdale Air Force Base at around 11:45 a.m. (see 11:45 a.m. September 11, 2001). [9/11 Commission, 7/24/2004, pp. 325]
Entity Tags: Ari Fleischer, Edward Marinzel, Andrew Card, Mark Rosenker, Thomas Gould, George W. Bush
(Between 10:31 a.m. and 11:45 a.m.) September 11, 2001: White House Counselor Hughes Is Unable to Reach President Bush on Air Force One
Karen Hughes. [Source: Iowa State University]White House counselor Karen Hughes tries calling President Bush on Air Force One but an operator says he is unable to connect her to the plane. [Washington Post, 1/27/2002; White House, 8/22/2002; Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, 9/10/2006] Hughes was, unusually, at her home in Northwest Washington, DC, when the terrorist attacks began this morning. She stayed in the capital instead of going to Florida with Bush on September 10 since that day was her wedding anniversary. And she stayed home this morning instead of going to the regular senior staff meeting at the White House because she was due to attend an event in her neighborhood and planned to go straight to it from her home.
Hughes Wants to Give a Statement to the Media - Sometime after 10:00 a.m., she was called by Josh Bolten, the deputy White House chief of staff, who told her that Vice President Dick Cheney wanted her to work on a statement that the president can deliver when he lands at Barksdale Air Force Base (see 11:45 a.m. September 11, 2001). Hughes has since then decided she should give a statement to the media, to reassure the public that the government is functioning, but she wants to call Bush to get his permission before doing this. [Washington Post, 1/27/2002; MSNBC, 9/11/2002; Hughes, 2004, pp. 232-233, 236-237, 239; Politico Magazine, 9/9/2016]
Operator Says He Cannot Reach Air Force One - Hughes therefore now tries to contact Bush while she is being driven to the White House. [Fox News, 9/9/2011] She calls the military switchboard and tells the operator, "I need to talk with the president." The operator puts her on hold while he tries connecting her to Bush. However, he is unable to contact the president's plane. He comes back on the line and, with a shaky voice, says: "Ma'am, I'm sorry. We cannot reach Air Force One." This is "one of the most chilling moments of the day for me," Hughes will later comment. [White House, 8/22/2002; MSNBC, 9/11/2002; Hughes, 2004, pp. 239; Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, 9/10/2006] "I'd never had that happen before, where they literally couldn't reach [the president]," she will say. [CNN, 4/25/2013]
Hughes Is Worried due to the Threat against Air Force One - She is apparently surprised because she knows the president's plane has advanced communications capabilities. "I had seen the elaborate communications equipment on Air Force One, and had watched the president make and receive calls from all over the world" while on the plane, she will say. Furthermore, she has been told that a threat has been made against the president's plane. [Hughes, 2004, pp. 239; NBC, 4/4/2004; Politico Magazine, 9/9/2016] (Officials at the White House learned of this threat at around 10:30 a.m. (see (10:30 a.m.) September 11, 2001). [Woodward, 2002, pp. 18; 9/11 Commission, 7/24/2004, pp. 554] ) She is concerned, therefore, that something bad may have happened to the plane and those on board. She thinks, "Surely something hasn't happened to them?" [CNN, 4/25/2013] "I remember saying a prayer that nothing had happened to the president," she will say. [NBC, 4/4/2004]
Problems Are Supposedly due to the Plane's Altitude - Hughes will claim that her inability to reach Air Force One at this time is a result of the plane flying at "very high altitudes." She will say she learned that the plane's high altitude "affected the communications system for a moment." [MSNBC, 9/11/2002] However, Bush and his staff have problems making and receiving calls for much of the time that they are on Air Force One today (see (9:54 a.m.-2:50 p.m.) September 11, 2001). [Northwest Indiana Times, 9/22/2002; Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, 9/10/2006] Hughes will subsequently arrive at the White House and be escorted to the Presidential Emergency Operations Center, below the East Wing. [CBS News, 9/11/2002; Hughes, 2004, pp. 240] She will eventually speak to Bush early in the afternoon, while he is at Barksdale Air Force Base (see (12:11 p.m.-1:20 p.m.) September 11, 2001). [Associated Press, 10/2/2001; MSNBC, 9/11/2002; Hughes, 2004, pp. 241-242; American History, 10/2006 ]
Entity Tags: Karen Hughes, George W. Bush
(11:15 a.m.-11:45 a.m.) September 11, 2001: Barksdale Air Force Base Prepares for Arrival of Air Force One and President
Curtis M. Bedke. [Source: US Air Force]Officials at Barksdale Air Force Base, near Shreveport, Louisiana, are informed that a large plane will be arriving unexpectedly at their base and will require security within the next 30 minutes, and they quickly deduce that the aircraft is Air Force One, the president's plane, and start preparing for its arrival. [Associated Press, 10/2/2001; American History, 10/2006 ]
Officers Given List of Requirements for Air Force One - Colonel Anthony Imondi and Colonel Curtis Bedke of the 2nd Bomb Wing at Barksdale take a call from Air Force One in which they are given a list of requirements requested by the plane's crew. These requirements include supplies intended to last for at least a day or two, as the president is currently uncertain of his final destination or how long he may need to remain airborne. On the list are, among other things, 150,000 pounds of fuel, 75 box lunches, 10 gallons of orange juice, bagels, muffins, and 25 pounds of bananas.
Commander Deduces Plane Is Air Force One - When Lieutenant General Thomas Keck, the commander of the 8th Air Force at Barksdale, learns of the request, he asks his staff, "Who the heck is this?" His personnel say they don't know, as the plane would not identify itself except to say there were distinguished visitors on board and it was "Code Alpha," which means top priority. The pilot of Air Force One, Colonel Mark Tillman, then informs the base that the distinguished visitors are four congressmen. However, Keck suspects the plane is more important and soon works out that it must be Air Force One, carrying the president. He then has just 20 minutes to prepare for the president's arrival at Barksdale.
Base Prepares for Plane's Arrival - Keck orders his staff to prepare for receiving a large, inbound aircraft, although he and his colleagues try to keep the plane's identity secret as much as possible. The order goes out for the requested supplies to be gathered from the dining facility on the base, the commissary, or from off-base stores. The base's security forces, and fuels and maintenance personnel, are instructed to stand by to service the plane. Keck tells the base's military police unit that the incoming plane will need a full-on security detail as soon as it stops on the runway. [2d Bomb Wing, 6/30/2002 ; American History, 10/2006 ]
Officer Told Air Force One Landing at Nearby Airport - Captain Russell Stilling, an operations officer with the 2nd Security Forces Squadron at the base, is initially told only that an "unidentified aircraft" is inbound. Four minutes later he is called by the Secret Service, which tells him the aircraft is in fact Air Force One, but says the plane will be arriving at Shreveport Regional Airport, not Barksdale Air Base, and asks him to assign extra security police. Stilling only realizes Air Force One is landing at Barksdale while he is still on the phone with the Secret Service and he glances at a camera focused on the base's runways, which is showing the plane coming in to land. [Times-Picayune, 9/8/2002] Air Force One will land at Barksdale Air Force Base at 11:45 a.m. (see 11:45 a.m. September 11, 2001). [Time, 9/14/2001]
Entity Tags: Barksdale Air Force Base, Curtis M. Bedke, Mark Tillman, Anthony A. Imondi, Thomas Keck, Russell Stilling, US Secret Service
(11:29 a.m.) September 11, 2001: Fighter Jets Finally Reach Air Force One to Escort It
President Bush (center, bending) and others look out the windows of Air Force One as their fighter escort arrives. [Source: White House]President Bush, his entourage, and reporters accompanying them on board Air Force One notice fighter jets escorting their plane for the first time. Air Force One is currently flying westward over Mississippi, toward Barksdale Air Force Base in Louisiana. [USA Today, 9/11/2001; Sammon, 2002, pp. 109; CBS News, 9/11/2002] The White House requested a fighter escort for it (see 9:59 a.m. September 11, 2001) and the Secret Service asked Major General Larry Arnold, the commanding general of NORAD's Continental US Region, to provide that escort. [Code One Magazine, 1/2002; 9/11 Commission, 7/24/2004, pp. 38; Spencer, 2008, pp. 255]
Passengers Notice Fighters - Now, air traffic control radios Colonel Mark Tillman, the pilot of Air Force One, and notifies him, "[Y]ou've got two F-16s at about your—say, your 10 o'clock position." [CBS News, 9/11/2002; Spencer, 2008, pp. 255] Reporters on board notice a fighter flying alongside the plane's right wing, and then spot another one alongside its left wing. [USA Today, 9/11/2001] According to a photographer on the plane, these jets are "so close that we could see the pilot's head." [BBC, 9/1/2002] Bush also notices the fighters. [Sammon, 2002, pp. 109] White House Communications Director Dan Bartlett will later recall: "The staff, and the president and us, were filed out along the outside hallway of his presidential cabin there and looking out the windows. And the president gives them a signal of salute, and the pilot kind of tips his wing, and fades off and backs into formation." [CBS News, 9/11/2002]
Fighters Maybe Arrived Earlier, but Remained out of Sight - According to most accounts, the jets alongside Air Force One belong to the 147th Fighter Wing of the Texas Air National Guard. [CBS News, 9/11/2002; Filson, 2003, pp. 87; St. Petersburg Times, 7/4/2004; Rosenfeld and Gross, 2007, pp. 40; Spencer, 2008, pp. 255] But a few accounts will indicate they belong to a unit of the Florida Air National Guard in Jacksonville (see (10:00 a.m.) September 11, 2001). [US Department of Defense, 9/2001; Daily Telegraph, 12/16/2001] Four 147th Fighter Wing jets have been directed toward the president's plane to accompany it (see (After 9:56 a.m.) September 11, 2001). [Filson, 2003, pp. 87; Rosenfeld and Gross, 2007, pp. 40] But according to Sarasota Magazine, Air Force One is "currently being escorted by six jet fighters." [Sarasota Magazine, 11/2001] Fifteen minutes earlier, at 11:14 a.m., an official, whose identity is unstated but who is not a member of the White House staff, told the reporters on Air Force One that the plane already had plenty of military escort, but the fighters were not visible at that time, presumably meaning they were escorting the plane from a distance. [USA Today, 9/11/2001]
Jets Protecting '80-Mile Bubble' around Air Force One - The two jets seen by the passengers on Air Force One are reportedly being flown by pilots Shane Brotherton and Randy Roberts of the 147th Fighter Wing. Roberts will later recall, "We were trying to keep an 80-mile bubble… around Air Force One, and we'd investigate anything that was within 80 miles." [CBS News, 9/11/2002; Spencer, 2008, pp. 255] The 147th Fighter Wing jets will accompany Air Force One to Barksdale Air Force Base, then on to Offutt Air Force Base, Nebraska, and finally to Andrews Air Force Base, near Washington, DC. [Filson, 2003, pp. 87-88; Galveston County Daily News, 7/9/2005]
Entity Tags: Dan Bartlett, 147th Fighter Wing, Randy Roberts, Mark Tillman, Shane Brotherton, George W. Bush
Shortly Before 11:45 a.m. September 11, 2001: Fighter Jet Intercepts Suspicious Aircraft Flying toward Air Force One
Colonel Mark Tillman, the pilot of Air Force One, is informed that an unidentified aircraft is heading toward his plane, and one of the fighter jets that is escorting Air Force One then goes and intercepts this suspicious aircraft. [Aero-News Network, 7/19/2012; KFDI, 12/11/2012] Air Force One is flying toward Barksdale Air Force Base in Louisiana and has now been joined by two F-16 fighters belonging to the 147th Fighter Wing of the Texas Air National Guard (see (11:29 a.m.) September 11, 2001). [Rosenfeld and Gross, 2007, pp. 40; Aviationist, 9/9/2011]
Pilot Says Aircraft Will Be Shot Down if It Is Hostile - The pilot of one of the fighters calls Tillman and tells him, "There's a guy coming off New Orleans, looks like New Orleans, and he's coming off and he's climbing right at us, he's coming right up at us." He says he has instructed the pilot of the other fighter to head out to locate and identify the aircraft, and, he says, if the aircraft is "not a friendly, he's gonna go ahead and splash him." Tillman asks the pilot, "Who has got shootdown authority here?" and is told, "You have shootdown authority." He then phones the president's office, downstairs on Air Force One, and says to the person who answers, "Let the president know: the fighters on the wing say that I have shootdown authority." Tillman then hears "a little chuckle in the background," which, he will later say, is the "president and everybody laughing 'cause Tillman thinks he has shootdown authority."
Aircraft Is Just a Learjet Flown by a Civilian - The suspicious aircraft is intercepted by the fighter that went to locate and identify it. It turns out to be a Learjet piloted by a civilian, according to Tillman, which has just taken off from Lakefront Airport in New Orleans. "My angle coming in [toward Barksdale Air Force Base] was coming right over New Orleans and he's taking off, coming right at me," Tillman will say. [US Air Force, 2/29/2012 ; Aero-News Network, 7/19/2012; KFDI, 12/11/2012] If this is correct, it is unclear why the aircraft was permitted to take off, since the FAA ordered a nationwide ground stop at around 9:26 a.m., which was supposed to prevent any aircraft taking off across the US (see (9:26 a.m.) September 11, 2001). [US Congress. House. Committee On Transportation And Infrastructure, 9/21/2001; 9/11 Commission, 7/24/2004, pp. 25] "It's the only guy in the country that didn't get the word we're not flying today," Tillman will comment. Finally, according to Tillman, the FAA's Houston Center gets the Learjet back on the ground. [KFDI, 12/11/2012] Air Force One then heads on to Barksdale Air Force Base, where it will land at 11:45 a.m. (see 11:45 a.m. September 11, 2001). [CBS News, 9/11/2002]
Entity Tags: 147th Fighter Wing, Mark Tillman
11:45 a.m. September 11, 2001: Air Force One Lands at Barksdale Air Force Base in Louisiana
Air Force One at Barksdale Air Force Base. [Source: Win McNamee / Reuters]Air Force One, with President Bush on board, lands at Barksdale Air Force Base—the home of the B-52 bomber—near Shreveport, Louisiana. [New York Times, 9/16/2001; Daily Telegraph, 12/16/2001; BBC, 9/1/2002] The president's plane was escorted by fighter jets from the 147th Fighter Wing of the Texas Air National Guard as it came in to land (see (11:29 a.m.) September 11, 2001). [Time, 9/14/2001; Filson, 2003, pp. 87; Bush, 2010, pp. 132] Two of those fighters now land at Barksdale with Air Force One while the other two remain airborne, flying a combat air patrol over Shreveport and Bossier City. Aircraft and personnel at Barksdale were participating in the major training exercise Global Guardian this morning, before the terrorist attacks began (see 8:48 a.m. September 11, 2001), and after touching down, Air Force One taxies past 40 fully loaded B-52s. [Times-Picayune, 9/8/2002; Bombardier, 9/8/2006 ; Draper, 2007, pp. 141] Air Force personnel dressed in full combat gear and brandishing M-16s then set up a perimeter around the plane. [Time, 9/14/2001] Bush initially remains on board, gathering more intelligence. There is no mobile gangway on the tarmac and so he is unable to get off through his usual door in the top half of Air Force One. Instead, the flight crew opens a hatch near the belly of the plane and lowers a set of retractable stairs while Bush continues working the phones. The president finally gets off the plane just before noon and is then escorted away from it amid tight security (see (11:55 a.m.) September 11, 2001). [Sammon, 2002, pp. 111-112] The Daily Telegraph will later comment, "The official reason for landing at Barksdale was that Mr. Bush felt it necessary to make a further statement (see 12:36 p.m. September 11, 2001), but it isn't unreasonable to assume that—as there was no agreement as to what the president's movements should be—it was felt he might as well be on the ground as in the air." [Daily Telegraph, 12/16/2001] Bush will remain at Barksdale Air Force Base for almost two hours before taking off again on Air Force One (see 1:37 p.m. September 11, 2001). [Salon, 9/12/2001; 2d Bomb Wing, 6/30/2002 ]
Entity Tags: 147th Fighter Wing, George W. Bush, Barksdale Air Force Base
(Shortly After 11:45 a.m.) September 11, 2001: Two A-10 Jets Placed on Alert at Barksdale Air Force Base while President Is There
Two A-10 aircraft from Barksdale Air Force Base. [Source: Greg Steele / US Air Force]Because no fighter jets are available at Barksdale Air Force Base, the Air Force Reserve places two A-10 jets, which are intended for close air support of ground forces, on alert in order to defend the base and the president's plane, Air Force One, which landed at Barksdale at 11:45 a.m. (see 11:45 a.m. September 11, 2001). Lieutenant General Thomas Keck, the commander of the 8th Air Force, is responsible for protecting President Bush and Air Force One from any attack while they are at his base, and he realizes something needs to be done to provide cover for Barksdale. He therefore calls Brigadier General Jack Ihle, the commander of the 917th Wing of the Air Force Reserve at Barksdale, and requests help. When Keck asks Ihle if he can provide "any kind of defense," Ihle immediately answers, "You got it!" The Air Force Reserve at Barksdale has no fighters, but it does have A-10 Warthogs, which are twin-engine jet aircraft known as "tank killers," because they can deliver heavy firepower against tanks and ground forces. Despite the plane's relatively slow speed, the A-10's "gun is deadly," according to Keck. Two A-10s are therefore parked at the end of the base's runway on cockpit alert, with crews ready to take off immediately if required. Keck will later recall, "We felt better having them there, and then NORAD sent over a couple of F-16s before long." [American History, 10/2006 ; GlobalSecurity (.org), 7/7/2011] (Keck is presumably referring to the fighters launched by the Louisiana Air National Guard's 159th Fighter Wing to follow Air Force One after it leaves Barksdale (see (1:45 p.m.) September 11, 2001). [Filson, 2003, pp. 87; Associated Press, 12/30/2007] ) Two of the four F-16 fighters from the 147th Fighter Wing of the Texas Air National Guard that escorted Air Force One as it came in to land at Barksdale fly a combat air patrol overhead, while the other two are on the ground with Air Force One while the president is at the base, according to the Bombardier, the newspaper for Barksdale Air Force Base. [Bombardier, 9/8/2006 ]
Entity Tags: Jack Ihle, Barksdale Air Force Base, Thomas Keck
(11:55 a.m.) September 11, 2001: President Provided with Tight Security after Getting Off Air Force One at Barksdale Air Force Base
President Bush at Barksdale Air Force Base, accompanied by Lieutenant General Thomas Keck. [Source: White House]President Bush is provided with a high level of security when he gets off Air Force One at Barksdale Air Force Base, near Shreveport, Louisiana, and is promptly driven to a conference center on the base from where he makes a brief phone call. [USA Today, 9/11/2001; Newseum et al., 2002, pp. 164; Rove, 2010, pp. 258-259] Air Force One landed at Barksdale at 11:45 a.m. and was immediately surrounded by Air Force personnel in full combat gear, with their rifles drawn (see 11:45 a.m. September 11, 2001). [USA Today, 9/11/2001; St. Petersburg Times, 7/4/2004] Bush remained on board while a retractable set of stairs was lowered for him to leave the plane by.
Reporters Updated on President's Actions - A dark blue Dodge Caravan now pulls up next to these stairs, and a Secret Service agent and two Air Force officers take positions at the bottom of the stairs. The Dodge then pulls away, perhaps 40 feet back from the plane, and is swept inside and outside with dogs. Some members of the president's staff come down the stairs from the plane. White House press secretary Ari Fleischer approaches the pool of reporters who have been traveling on Air Force One and who are waiting under the plane's left wing for the president to disembark. Fleischer gives them a brief update on the president's actions during the flight and adds: "You will see [the president] disembark here shortly. He will head inside and that's all I'm going to indicate at this moment. You will have additional information shortly." Fleischer then answers several questions from the reporters.
President Gets off Plane and into Minivan - Bush then descends from Air Force One. [USA Today, 9/11/2001; Sammon, 2002, pp. 111] The Shreveport Secret Service office has been mobilized to oversee security arrangements while the president is at Barksdale. However, there is no presidential limousine waiting to drive Bush away from the plane. [Rove, 2010, pp. 258] Normally the president's armored limousine would be flown in ahead of time on a military transport plane, but there has been no time to get it to Barksdale. [Sammon, 2002, pp. 112] Bush instead gets into the Dodge Caravan, which is being guarded by a Humvee with a .50-caliber machine gun on top. [Rove, 2010, pp. 258] White House chief of staff Andrew Card gets in with him. The media and some of Bush's staff, including his senior adviser, Karl Rove, and his communications director, Dan Bartlett, get into an Air Force minibus. [USA Today, 9/11/2001; Sammon, 2002, pp. 112]
Bush Taken to Conference Center on Base - The Dodge then drives off at high speed. Bush will later recall that it "blasted off down the runway at what felt like 80 miles an hour. When the man behind the wheel started taking turns at that speed, I yelled, 'Slow down, son, there are no terrorists on this base!'" [Bush, 2010, pp. 132] The Humvee pulls out behind the Dodge, and the airman manning the machine gun on top cocks his weapon and puts a live round in the chamber. The minibus carrying the reporters follows moments later. [Rove, 2010, pp. 258-259] The small motorcade drives to the Dougherty Conference Center, a two-story building on the base. At the stroke of noon, Bush and his aides enter the building. A car blocks the driveway and several armed soldiers stand guard while the president is inside. [USA Today, 9/11/2001; Sammon, 2002, pp. 112]
Bush Speaks to Vice President - Bush and his aides are met by Colonel Curtis Bedke, the commander of the 2nd Bomb Wing, and Lieutenant General Thomas Keck, the commander of the 8th Air Force, apparently as they are entering the conference center. [2d Bomb Wing, 6/30/2002 ; American History, 10/2006 ] Inside, Bush picks up a telephone and speaks briefly with Vice President Dick Cheney, who is at the White House. [Sammon, 2002, pp. 112] Bush tells Keck he needs to get to a secure phone. Keck says there is one in his office, but this is in a different building on the base. [American History, 10/2006 ] The pool of reporters waits in the parking lot outside the conference center for about 10 minutes while the president is inside. Bush and his staff finally come out at 12:11 p.m., to be taken to the 8th Air Force headquarters building (see (12:11 p.m.-1:20 p.m.) September 11, 2001). [USA Today, 9/11/2001; Sammon, 2002, pp. 112]
Entity Tags: Barksdale Air Force Base, Richard ("Dick") Cheney, Dan Bartlett, Curtis M. Bedke, Ari Fleischer, Thomas Keck, George W. Bush, Andrew Card, Karl C. Rove, US Secret Service
(12:00 p.m.-6:30 p.m.) September 11, 2001: AWACS Plane Takes Off from a Base in Oklahoma and Then Escorts Air Force One
Doug Lomheim. [Source: US Air Force]An Airborne Warning and Control System (AWACS) plane takes off from Tinker Air Force Base in Oklahoma and subsequently accompanies Air Force One as it makes its way back to Washington, DC, after leaving Barksdale Air Force Base in Louisiana. [Air Force Print News, 9/9/2011; Kennedy et al., 2012, pp. 61] An AWACS, also called the E-3 Sentry, is a modified Boeing 707 that provides surveillance, command, control, and communications to military commanders. [New York Times, 9/23/1995; GlobalSecurity (.org), 4/16/2006; US Air Force, 9/22/2015] The AWACS that scrambles from Tinker Air Force Base is apparently piloted by Air Force reservists Major Doug Lomheim and Captain Greg Miller. The two men had been preparing for a student training sortie on their E-3 early this morning but then learned of the crashes at the World Trade Center during a delay due to one of the plane's engines failing to start. After being told they would be assigned to do something in response to the terrorist attacks, they sent their students back to the training squadron and gathered their "NORAD material." Lomheim and Miller take off from Tinker Air Force Base at around midday and check in with NORAD's Southeast Air Defense Sector (SEADS). SEADS instructs them to head to Barksdale Air Force Base, where Air Force One, with President Bush on board, recently landed (see 11:45 a.m. September 11, 2001). "We want you to escort [Bush] wherever he goes," they are told. Their plane goes into an orbit over western Louisiana while Bush is at Barksdale. They then accompany Air Force One after it leaves the base (see 1:37 p.m. September 11, 2001) and orbit overhead after it lands at Offutt Air Force Base in Nebraska (see 2:50 p.m. September 11, 2001). They continue following the president's plane after it takes off from Offutt and heads toward Washington (see (4:33 p.m.) September 11, 2001). [Air Force Print News, 9/9/2011; Kennedy et al., 2012, pp. 61] An AWACS plane that had been flying a training mission was instructed to accompany Air Force One earlier on, after it took off from Sarasota, Florida (see Before 9:55 a.m. September 11, 2001). Whether that plane is escorting Air Force One while Lomheim and Miller's plane follows it is unclear. [Filson, 2003, pp. 86-87]
Entity Tags: Doug Lomheim, Greg Miller (USAF), George W. Bush, Southeast Air Defense Sector
(12:11 p.m.-1:25 p.m.) September 11, 2001: President Bush Argues about Where He Should Go Next, but Agrees to Stay Away from Washington
President Bush spends time arguing with his colleagues about where he should go next while he is at Barksdale Air Force Base in Louisiana and is advised to stay away from Washington, DC. [Daily Telegraph, 12/16/2001; Bush, 2010, pp. 133] Air Force One landed at Barksdale at 11:45 a.m. (see 11:45 a.m. September 11, 2001) and, about 25 minutes later, Bush was taken to the headquarters of the 8th Air Force at the base (see (12:11 p.m.-1:20 p.m.) September 11, 2001). [Sammon, 2002, pp. 112; 9/11 Commission, 7/24/2004, pp. 325] The media are now asking about his whereabouts and why he has not returned to Washington. Bush is in fact keen to return to the capital. "I was worried people would get the impression that the government was disengaged," he will later write. "The American people needed to see their president in Washington," he will comment.
Bush Is Advised to Stay Away from Washington - While he is at the base, Bush debates whether he should return to Washington with the Secret Service and Vice President Dick Cheney, who is at the White House. [Daily Telegraph, 12/16/2001; Bush, 2010, pp. 133] These people advise him against going back. [9/11 Commission, 7/24/2004, pp. 325] "The Secret Service agents felt it was still too uncertain," he will recall, adding: "Dick [Cheney] and [National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice, who is at the White House] agreed. They recommended that I go to the Strategic Command at Offutt Air Force Base in Nebraska. It had secure housing space and reliable communications." [Bush, 2010, pp. 133] Meanwhile, Andrew Card, Bush's chief of staff, spends time on the phone, seeking opinions from a number of trusted individuals. On the basis of these calls, he advises Bush that it would be reckless to return to Washington. [Daily Telegraph, 12/16/2001]
Secret Service Decides Where the President Goes - Despite Bush's desire to return to the capital, the Secret Service has the power to determine where the president should go in a crisis, according to Dave Wilkinson, assistant special agent in charge of the presidential protection division. "By federal law, the Secret Service has to protect the president," he will say, adding: "The wishes of that person that day are secondary to what the law expects of us. Theoretically it's not his call, it's our call." [Politico Magazine, 9/9/2016] Bush therefore acquiesces and a few minutes before 1:00 p.m., according to the London Daily Telegraph, agrees to fly to Offutt Air Force Base rather than going back to Washington. [Daily Telegraph, 12/16/2001] "I resigned myself to delaying my return once again," he will comment. [Bush, 2010, pp. 133] Bush "fought with us tooth and nail all day to go back to Washington," Wilkinson will say, but the Secret Service "basically refused to take him back." [Politico Magazine, 9/9/2016]
Bush Is Frustrated at Being Unable to Return to the White House - After returning to Air Force One, but before the plane takes off, Bush gets on the phone to Cheney again and expresses his increasing frustration at being unable to return to the capital. He tells the vice president: "I can assure you I'd like to come home now. Tonight would be great." Then, at 1:25 p.m., he turns to Card and Edward Marinzel, the head of his Secret Service detail, and says: "I want to go back home ASAP. I don't want whoever this is holding me outside of Washington." But Marinzel tells him, "Our people say it's too unsteady still." Bush replies, "Cheney says it's not safe yet, as well." Card then advises, "The right thing is to let the dust settle." [Sammon, 2002, pp. 118-119] Air Force One will take off from Barksdale Air Force Base and head to Offutt Air Force Base at 1:37 p.m. (see 1:37 p.m. September 11, 2001). [Washington Post, 9/12/2001]
Entity Tags: Richard ("Dick") Cheney, US Secret Service, George W. Bush, Dave Wilkinson, Edward Marinzel, Andrew Card, Condoleezza Rice
12:36 p.m. September 11, 2001: Bush Records Speech to the Nation at Barksdale Air Force Base that Airs about 30 Minutes Later
President Bush records a speech at Barksdale Air Force Base. [Source: Win McNamee / Reuters]President Bush delivers a short speech to the nation in a windowless conference room at Barksdale Air Force Base, Louisiana, which is recorded and will be broadcast on television about half an hour later. [Time, 9/14/2001; Sammon, 2002, pp. 113-117] Since arriving at Barksdale (see 11:45 a.m. September 11, 2001), Bush has been spending time in the office of Lieutenant General Thomas Keck, the commander of the 8th Air Force (see (12:11 p.m.-1:20 p.m.) September 11, 2001). [American History, 10/2006 ] Bush will later recall that by 12:30 p.m., "it had been almost three hours since I had spoken to the country" (see 9:30 a.m. September 11, 2001) and he is "worried people would get the impression that the government was disengaged." [Bush, 2010, pp. 133]
Bush Taken to Conference Room to Record Statement - A short statement to the nation has therefore been prepared for Bush to deliver. Keck escorts the president from his office to the conference room in the 8th Air Force headquarters building to record it. Bush is also accompanied to the room by his chief of staff, Andrew Card, his senior adviser, Karl Rove, his communications director, Dan Bartlett, his press secretary Ari Fleischer, and several Secret Service agents. [Sammon, 2002, pp. 113; American History, 10/2006 ] A hurried attempt has been made to prepare the room for the president's speech. [9/11 Commission, 7/24/2004, pp. 325] Airmen have arranged three US flags behind the wooden lectern behind which Bush will speak, and have tried to add some lighting to brighten up the dark room. The reporters who have been traveling with the president on Air Force One went to the conference room after entering the 8th Air Force headquarters building, and are assembled there when Bush comes in. [USA Today, 9/11/2001; American History, 10/2006 ]
Tape of Speech Taken to Satellite Truck to Be Broadcast - Bush delivers his 219-word speech in precisely two minutes. [USA Today, 9/11/2001; Woodward, 2002, pp. 19] After doing so, he leaves the room without acknowledging, or taking any questions from, the reporters in the room. [USA Today, 9/11/2001; Newseum et al., 2002, pp. 165] Keck, who stays to watch Bush deliver the speech, then escorts the president back to his office. [American History, 10/2006 ] Master Sergeant Rich Del Haya, the officer in charge of the 8th Air Force public affairs office, is then called to the 8th Air Force headquarters building to collect the videotape of the speech. He runs out of the building with it, accompanied by a CBS network producer and reporter, and drives toward the base's far north entrance. Gate officials contact a state trooper outside the base, who escorts the three to a satellite truck of the local CBS affiliate. [Times-Picayune, 9/8/2002] The recording of the president's speech will be broadcast from the satellite truck at 1:04 p.m. (see 1:04 p.m. September 11, 2001). [Sammon, 2002, pp. 117]
Entity Tags: George W. Bush, Andrew Card, Karl C. Rove, Thomas Keck, Ari Fleischer, Rich Del Haya, Dan Bartlett, US Secret Service
(1:00 p.m.) September 11, 2001: Decision Made to Reduce Group Traveling with President on Air Force One
Members of President Bush's staff decide to remove any nonessential passengers traveling with the president on Air Force One when it leaves Barksdale Air Force Base, Louisiana, and determine that they will leave behind some congressmen, numerous White House staffers, and most of the journalists that have been accompanying them. [Sarasota Magazine, 11/2001; Sammon, 2002, pp. 118; Fleischer, 2005, pp. 145; Rove, 2010, pp. 259]
Reporters Traveling with President Reduced to Five - While the president's staffers are preparing to leave Barksdale, Bush's chief of staff Andrew Card pulls White House press secretary Ari Fleischer aside and tells him they need to reduce the number of people flying on the president's plane. Usually, when the president flies, numerous personnel get to his destination ahead of him to prepare for his arrival, but at the present time, Bush's support team is limited to those already on Air Force One. "Given the heightened sense of security," Fleischer will later recall, "the Secret Service didn't want the president to wait for the normal entourage to board the makeshift motorcade that would be assembled upon landing." Card says the traveling White House staff is going to be reduced and the members of Congress on board will also be left behind at Barksdale, and he tells Fleischer to decrease the number of reporters flying with the president. Card wants the pool of reporters reduced from the current 13 to three, but agrees to Fleischer's request to make it five. Fleischer decides the reporters that remain with them will be Ann Compton of ABC Radio, Sonya Ross of the Associated Press, Associated Press photographer Doug Mills, and a CBS cameraman and soundman. [Fleischer, 2005, pp. 145-146] White House assistant press secretary Gordon Johndroe passes on the bad news to the reporters. While they are waiting on a bus to be driven back to Air Force One, he comes on board and tells them there will only be five seats on the president's plane for the media. [USA Today, 9/11/2001]
Reporters Angry at Being Left Behind - The reporters and nonessential personnel remaining at Barksdale Air Force Base will be standing on the tarmac and watching as Air Force One takes off from there, heading for its next destination (see 1:37 p.m. September 11, 2001). [National Journal, 5/3/2011] Some of the reporters will be angry at being left behind. As the president and his entourage are approaching the plane, Reuters correspondent Steve Holland will shout out to Fleischer, "Ari, what about us?" Another angry reporter will call out, "Who's in charge here, the military or the civilians?" [White House, 8/8/2002; Fleischer, 2005, pp. 146]
'Skeleton Crew' Remaining on Air Force One - As well as the eight reporters, others removed from the plane include Representatives Adam Putnam (R-FL) and Dan Miller (R-FL), Bush's senior education adviser Sandy Kress, Bush's personal aide Blake Gottesman, and several Secret Service agents. [USA Today, 9/11/2001; Sarasota Magazine, 11/2001] Fleischer will recall that after the nonessential passengers have been left behind, those who continue on Air Force One are just "a skeleton crew." [White House, 8/8/2002] Those remaining at Barksdale will be escorted to a building and stay there until another plane flies them from the base back to Washington, DC, later in the afternoon (see (3:30 p.m.) September 11, 2001). [Sarasota Magazine, 11/2001]
Entity Tags: Ari Fleischer, Adam Putnam, Andrew Card, Ann Compton, Steve Holland, US Secret Service, Gordon Johndroe, Sonya Ross, Blake Gottesman, Doug Mills, Barnett A. ("Sandy") Kress, Dan Miller
1:37 p.m. September 11, 2001: Air Force One Leaves Barksdale Air Force Base Heading for Base in Nebraska
Air Force One departs Barksdale Air Force Base. [Source: Reuters]Air Force One takes off from Barksdale Air Force Base in Louisiana to fly President Bush to Offutt Air Force Base in Nebraska. While Bush has been at Barksdale, base personnel have refueled Air Force One and restocked it with provisions for its continuing journey, on the basis that it may have to serve as the president's flying command center for the foreseeable future. [Associated Press, 10/2/2001; 2d Bomb Wing, 6/30/2002 ; BBC, 9/1/2002]
Reduced Number of Passengers on Board - For security reasons, the number of people traveling on Air Force One has been reduced (see (1:00 p.m.) September 11, 2001). [Fleischer, 2005, pp. 145-146] Those continuing with the president include Bush's chief of staff Andrew Card, his senior adviser Karl Rove, his communications director Dan Bartlett, White House press secretary Ari Fleischer, and assistant press secretary Gordon Johndroe. The number of Secret Service agents accompanying the president has been reduced, as has the number of reporters. The five remaining journalists are Ann Compton of ABC Radio, Sonya Ross of the Associated Press, Associated Press photographer Doug Mills, and a CBS cameraman and sound technician. [Salon, 9/12/2001; Associated Press, 9/12/2001]
President Given Thumbs-up by Airmen - Lieutenant General Thomas Keck, the commander of the 8th Air Force, has been at Bush's side for most of his time at Barksdale, and accompanies the president as he is being driven across the base to Air Force One. The president passes a row of B-52 bombers and is given a thumbs-up by the planes' crew members. Keck explains to Bush that this means the troops "are trained, they're ready, and they'll do whatever you want them to." Military police salute and other Air Force crew members cheer the president as he passes them. [American History, 10/2006 ]
Fighter Escort Rejoins Air Force One - Air Force One is being guarded by soldiers with their guns drawn when Bush reaches it, and a pack of military dogs is patrolling the tarmac. [Sammon, 2002, pp. 117-118] After the plane takes off, two F-16 fighter jets pull up alongside it to provide an escort. [American History, 10/2006 ] These are presumably the same fighters, belonging to the 147th Fighter Wing of the Texas Air National Guard, that escorted Air Force One as it came in to land at Barksdale (see (11:29 a.m.) September 11, 2001). [Filson, 2003, pp. 87; Bombardier, 9/8/2006 ]
Destination Chosen Due to 'Continuity of Government' Plan - Bush's destination, Offutt Air Force Base, is home to the US Strategic Command (Stratcom), which controls the nation's nuclear weapons. [Associated Press, 9/11/2001; Woodward, 2002, pp. 19] Bush will later say the decision to head there was based on Offutt's "secure housing space and reliable communications." [Bush, 2010, pp. 133] The base's secure teleconferencing equipment will allow the president to conduct a meeting of his National Security Council later in the afternoon (see (3:15 p.m.) September 11, 2001). [Sammon, 2002, pp. 119; Woodward, 2002, pp. 19, 26] According to the 9/11 Commission Report, Offutt has been chosen as the president's next destination "because of its elaborate command and control facilities, and because it could accommodate overnight lodging for 50 persons. The Secret Service wanted a place where the president could spend several days, if necessary." [9/11 Commission, 7/24/2004, pp. 325] But according to White House counterterrorism chief Richard Clarke, the decision to head to Offutt instead of back to Washington, DC, was due to a plan called "Continuity of Government." This program, which dates back to the Reagan administration, originally planned to set up a new leadership for the US in the event of a nuclear war. It was activated for the first time shortly before 10:00 a.m. this morning (see (Between 9:45 a.m. and 9:56 a.m.) September 11, 2001). [Washington Post, 4/7/2004; ABC News, 4/25/2004]
Entity Tags: Dan Bartlett, Barksdale Air Force Base, Thomas Keck, Ann Compton, Ari Fleischer, Doug Mills, George W. Bush, Gordon Johndroe, US Secret Service, 147th Fighter Wing, Sonya Ross, Karl C. Rove, Andrew Card, Richard A. Clarke
(1:45 p.m.) September 11, 2001: Louisiana Air National Guard Fighters Scrambled to Protect Air Force One
An F-15 from the 159th Fighter Wing. [Source: Louisiana National Guard]Fighter jets belonging to the Louisiana Air National Guard's 159th Fighter Wing are launched in order to accompany Air Force One after it takes off from Barksdale Air Force Base. [Filson, 2003, pp. 87; Associated Press, 12/30/2007] The 159th Fighter Wing is located at Naval Air Station Joint Reserve Base New Orleans, in Belle Chasse, Louisiana. [GlobalSecurity (.org), 1/21/2006]
SEADS Scrambles Fighters - Although the wing is not one of NORAD's alert units around the US, NORAD's Southeast Air Defense Sector (SEADS) scrambles four of its fighters around the time President Bush is leaving Barksdale Air Base on board Air Force One (see 1:37 p.m. September 11, 2001). The fighters had already been loaded with live missiles by the time Air Force One landed at the base (see 11:45 a.m. September 11, 2001). According to weapons officer Major Jeff Woelbling, "As we were all watching the news, the wing leadership decided to configure our jets and get ready."
Military Unaware of Air Force One's Route - At the time Air Force One leaves Barksdale, SEADS is unaware of its next destination. Lieutenant Colonel Randy Riccardi, the commander of the 122nd Fighter Squadron, which is part of the 159th Fighter Wing, will later recall, "When Air Force One took off out of Barksdale, we were scrambled because SEADS didn't know his route of flight." Riccardi will add: "We were in a four-ship and turned north toward Barksdale and the president was already airborne. We were 300 miles behind him since SEADS didn't know where he was going." The 159th Fighter Wing jets will accompany Air Force One until it is near Offutt Air Force Base, Nebraska (see 2:50 p.m. September 11, 2001). They then turn around and return to base. [Filson, 2003, pp. 87] When Air Force One landed at Barksdale, it was already being escorted by jets from the 147th Fighter Wing of the Texas Air National Guard (see (After 9:56 a.m.) September 11, 2001 and (11:29 a.m.) September 11, 2001). Those jets will continue escorting the president's plane until it reaches Washington, DC. [Galveston County Daily News, 7/9/2005; Bombardier, 9/8/2006 ]
Entity Tags: 159th Fighter Wing, Randy Riccardi, Jeff Woelbling, Southeast Air Defense Sector
1:47 p.m. September 11, 2001: Press Secretary Fleischer Says There Were 'No Warnings' of Today's Attacks
White House press secretary Ari Fleischer tells reporters traveling with President Bush that the administration received no warnings of the terrorist attacks that occurred this morning. During a press briefing on Air Force One after the plane takes off from Barksdale Air Force Base (see 1:37 p.m. September 11, 2001), a reporter asks if Bush knows "anything more" about who is responsible for the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. "That information is still being gathered and analyzed," Fleischer replies. Fleischer is then asked, "Had there been any warnings that the president knew of?" to which he answers, simply, "No warnings." He is then asked if Bush is "concerned about the fact that this attack of this severity happened with no warning?" In response, Fleischer changes the subject and fails to answer the question. In the coming days and weeks, senior administration officials, including Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney, will similarly say there was "no specific threat" of the kind of attack that happened today. [White House, 9/11/2001; New York Times, 5/18/2002] The 9/11 Commission Report, however, will note, "Most of the intelligence community recognized in the summer of 2001 that the number and severity of threat reports were unprecedented." On August 6, Bush in fact received a Presidential Daily Brief that included an article titled, "Bin Laden Determined to Strike in US" (see August 6, 2001). [9/11 Commission, 7/24/2004, pp. 260, 262] All the same, Fleischer will say in May 2002 that the answer he gave to reporters today, stating that there were no warnings of the attacks, was appropriate. "Flying on Air Force One, with the destruction of the attacks still visible on the plane's TV sets, the only way to interpret that question was that it related to the attacks that we were in the midst of," he will say. [New York Times, 5/18/2002] And according to the 9/11 Commission Report, "Despite their large number, the threats received [in the summer of 2001] contained few specifics regarding time, place, method, or target." The report will state, therefore, that the 9/11 Commission "cannot say for certain whether these reports, as dramatic as they were, related to the 9/11 attacks." [9/11 Commission, 7/24/2004, pp. 262-263]
Entity Tags: George W. Bush, Ari Fleischer
(1:50 p.m.) September 11, 2001: CIA Briefer Tells President Bush He Blames Bin Laden for Today's Attacks
President Bush asks Mike Morell, his CIA briefer, who is responsible for today's attacks on the US and Morell says he is sure al-Qaeda is to blame. About 15 minutes after Air Force One left Barksdale Air Force Base (see 1:37 p.m. September 11, 2001), White House chief of staff Andrew Card enters the staff section of the plane, where Morell is seated, and tells Morell that the president wants to see him. Morell goes to Bush's office, where he then sits alone with the president and Card.
CIA Briefer Says He'd Bet Al-Qaeda Was behind the Attacks - Bush wants to know who Morell thinks is responsible for today's attacks. "Michael, who did this?" he asks. Morell explains that he doesn't have any intelligence indicating who is to blame, so he will simply provide his personal opinion. "I said that there were two countries capable of carrying out an attack like this, Iran and Iraq, but I believed both would have everything to lose and nothing to gain from the attack," he will later recall. The culprit was almost certainly a non-state actor, he says, adding that he has no doubt that the trail of evidence will lead to the doorstep of Osama bin Laden and al-Qaeda. "I'd bet my children's future on that," he says.
Briefer Is Unsure How Long It Will Take to Determine Who Is Responsible - "When will we know?" Bush asks. Morell replies, "I can't say for sure," and then goes over some recent terrorist attacks and says how long it took the CIA to determine, with any certainty, who was responsible. He says that in the case of the 1998 bombings of the US embassies in Kenya and Tanzania (see 10:35-10:39 a.m., August 7, 1998), it took a couple of days; with the bombing of the USS Cole in Yemen in 2000 (see October 12, 2000), it took a couple of months; but with the 1996 bombing of the Khobar Towers in Saudi Arabia (see June 25, 1996), it had taken over a year. He says the CIA may know soon who is to blame for today's attacks, but then again it might take some time. Bush says nothing in response once Morell has finished giving his views on who is responsible for today's attacks and the men sit in silence for a while. Finally, Morell asks, "Is there anything else, Mr. President?" and Bush replies, "No, Michael, thank you." Morell then returns to his seat in the staff section of the plane. [Studies in Intelligence, 9/2006 ; Morell and Harlow, 2015, pp. 55-56; Politico Magazine, 9/9/2016] Bush will learn that the CIA has linked al-Qaeda to today's attacks later this afternoon, after Air Force One lands at Offutt Air Force Base in Nebraska (see 2:50 p.m. September 11, 2001). During a video teleconference, CIA Director George Tenet will tell him that early signs indicate the terrorist group is behind the attacks (see (3:15 p.m.) September 11, 2001). [9/11 Commission, 7/24/2004, pp. 326; Bowden, 2012, pp. 17-18]
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(3:15 p.m.) September 11, 2001: President Bush Meets with Top Officials via Video Conference Call
President Bush takes part in a video teleconference at Offutt Air Force Base. Chief of Staff Andrew Card sits on his left, and Admiral Richard Mies sits on his left. [Source: White House]At Offutt Air Force Base in Nebraska, President Bush convenes the first meeting of the National Security Council since the attacks occurred. [Woodward, 2002, pp. 26] He begins the video conference call from a bunker beneath the base. He and Chief of Staff Andrew Card visually communicate directly with Vice President Cheney, National Security Adviser Rice, Defense Secretary Rumsfeld, Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage, CIA Director Tenet, Transportation Secretary Norman Mineta, counterterrorism "tsar" Richard Clarke, and others. [Daily Telegraph, 12/16/2001; ABC News, 9/11/2002; Washington Times, 10/8/2002] According to Clarke, Bush begins the meeting by saying, "I'm coming back to the White House as soon as the plane is fueled. No discussion." But according to Condoleezza Rice, he begins with the words, "We're at war." Clarke leads a quick review of what has already occurred, and issues that need to be quickly addressed. Bush asks CIA Director Tenet who he thinks is responsible for the day's attacks. Tenet later recalls, "I told him the same thing I had told the vice president several hours earlier: al-Qaeda. The whole operation looked, smelled, and tasted like bin Laden." Tenet tells Bush that passenger manifests show that three known al-Qaeda operatives had been on Flight 77. According to Tenet, when he tells the president in particular about Nawaf Alhazmi and Khalid Almihdhar (two of the alleged Flight 77 hijackers), Bush gives Mike Morell, his CIA briefer, "one of those 'I thought I was supposed to be the first to know' looks." (Other evidence indicates the third al-Qaeda operative whose name is on the passenger manifest would be Salem Alhazmi (see 9:53 p.m. September 11, 2001).) Tenet tells the meeting that al-Qaeda is "the only terrorist organization capable of such spectacular, well-coordinated attacks," and that "Intelligence monitoring had overheard a number of known bin Laden operatives congratulating each other after the attacks. Information collected days earlier but only now being translated indicated that various known operatives around the world anticipated a big event. None specified the day, time, place or method of attack." Richard Clarke later corroborates that Tenet had at this time told the president he was certain that al-Qaeda was to blame. Yet only six weeks later, in an October 24, 2001 interview, Rice will claim differently. She will say, "In the first video conference, the assumption that everybody kind of shared was that it was global terrorists.… I don't believe anybody said this is likely al-Qaeda. I don't think so." Tenet also relays a warning the CIA has received from French intelligence, saying another group of terrorists is within US borders and is preparing a second wave of attacks. Defense Secretary Rumsfeld briefs on the status of US forces, and states that about 120 fighters are now above US cities. [Woodward, 2002, pp. 26-27; Clarke, 2004, pp. 21-22; 9/11 Commission, 7/24/2004, pp. 326 and 554; Tenet, 2007, pp. 169] The meeting reportedly ends around 4:00-4:15 p.m. [Daily Telegraph, 12/16/2001; Washington Times, 10/8/2002]
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(3:30 p.m.) September 11, 2001: White House Personnel and Reporters Removed from Air Force One Flown Back to Washington
A Boeing 757 takes off from Barksdale Air Force Base, Louisiana, to fly a group of reporters, congressmen, White House staffers, and Secret Service agents to Washington, DC. [Salon, 9/12/2001; Sarasota Magazine, 11/2001; Rove, 2010, pp. 259; National Journal, 5/3/2011] The group consists of individuals considered nonessential passengers that had been traveling on Air Force One, whom members of President Bush's staff decided to leave behind when the president's plane departed from Barksdale (see (1:00 p.m.) September 11, 2001). It includes eight reporters, two congressmen, numerous White House staffers, and several Secret Service agents. After Air Force One took off from the base earlier in the afternoon to fly the president to his next destination (see 1:37 p.m. September 11, 2001), these individuals were escorted to a building, where they remained until the plane arrived for them. [USA Today, 9/11/2001; Sarasota Magazine, 11/2001; Fleischer, 2005, pp. 145] Blake Gottesman, Bush's personal assistant, who was among those left behind at Barksdale, was given the task of getting the group back to Washington. He has been able to commandeer a Boeing 757 from the Air Force's Special Missions Fleet. [Rove, 2010, pp. 259] This plane was sent from Andrews Air Force Base, just outside Washington, to Barksdale. [Rochester Review, 9/2004] It is painted with the "United States of America" label, and has an office, a private cabin, and all-first class seats. It has in fact been used previously as Air Force One. [USA Today, 9/11/2001] About two hours after the president and his entourage left Barksdale, the plane takes off from the base with the group of former Air Force One passengers on board. [Newseum et al., 2002, pp. 165] It lands at Andrews Air Force Base around 5:00 p.m. [Sarasota Magazine, 11/2001; National Journal, 5/3/2011] Reuters correspondent Arshad Mohammed, who is on the plane, will later comment, "It's sort of amazing that they got us back to DC that same day when planes were locked down all over the country." [Newseum et al., 2002, pp. 165]
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Pokemania is back in a major way with the already global phenomenon of the smartphone app "Pokemon GO". We've seen hundreds of adults and kids running around the Central Texas area playing the game and in a way, has brought a lot of people TOGETHER despite its criticism for being "childish". We could surely use a little fun in our lives right now, so get outside with the family and start exploring! I've been playing the game for a few days now and my family and I have been "searching" all throughout Killeen and Copperas Cove. In the game, there places called "Poke-Stops" where you can collect items for your gameplay and also meet other players and exchange tips and ideas. Here are a few of the more interesting and amazing stops we recommend!
CTC is a hot bed of Pokemon activity (of course college students will get things popping) with a BUNCH of "poke-stops" on campus and lots of players you'll spot all around playing, if you're in the need of some "Poke-Balls" this is the place to be!
The Killeen Arts & Activities Center is also a great Poke-Stop if you're in the downtown area. Make your way down 4th St. and pick up some supplies and you might spot a Pokemon!
City Hall is another Poke-Stop that's nearby! There's also a Gym in the area as well so you can get your battle on!
If you're in Cove, you can swing by the "Gifted Hands Mural" next to Gifted Hands Salon & Spa.
One of the great things about Pokemon is, despite reports of people finding dead bodies and getting robbed, most poke-stops are in safe locations like churches. A majority of the stops in and around Killeen and Cove are located at many churches representing many faiths. Kind of a nice touch and maybe a deeper reminder of what we're here for in the first place.


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The Very Best of Cat Stevens ist das dritte Kompilationsalbum des Sängers und Songwriters Cat Stevens.

Geschichte

Das dritte Kompilationsalbum von Cat Stevens erschien im Februar 1990 und umfasste erstmals auch zwei Titel, die auf dem Label Deram Records erschienen sind, so dass die Zusammenstellung umfassender als die beiden vorhergehenden Greatest-Hits-Kompilationsalben (USA: keine Platzierung; GB: Platz 4; Deutschland: Platz 8) ist. Neun Jahre später wurde Remember Cat Stevens - The Ultimate Collection (USA: keine Veröffentlichung; GB: Platz 31; Deutschland: Platz 20), eine Zusammenstellung von 24 Titeln veröffentlicht, die im Oktober 2003 unter dem Namen The Very Best of Cat Stevens (USA: keine Platzierung; GB: keine Platzierung; Deutschland: Platz 6) mit einer DVD erschien. Die DVD beinhaltet bis dato unveröffentlichtes Videomaterial.

Im März 2000 erschien in den USA unter dem gleichen Namen mit einem sehr ähnlichen Cover bereits eine 20 Titel umfassende, chronologisch von 1967 bis 1978 aufgebaute Kompilation (USA: Platz 58), die einen unveröffentlichten Titel (I've Got a Thing About Seeing My Grandson Grow Old) aus der Mona Bone Jakon-Session beinhaltet; eine alternative Version dieses Titels erschien auf der 2001er Box On the Road to Find Out (Box Set).

Titellisten

Alle Songs (außer anders erwähnt) wurden von Cat Stevens geschrieben.

Veröffentlichungsversion Februar 1990

Where Do the Children Play?
Wild World
Tuesday's Dead
Lady D'Arbanville
The First Cut Is the Deepest
Oh Very Young
Rubylove
Morning Has Broken
Moonshadow
Matthew and Son
Father and Son
Can't Keep It In
Hard Headed Woman
(Remember the Days of the) Old Schoolyard
I Love My Dog
Another Saturday Night (Sam Cooke)
Sad Lisa
Peace Train

Veröffentlichungsversion März 2000 (USA)

Matthew and Son
The First Cut is the Deepest
Lady D'Arbanville
I've Got a Thing About Seeing My Grandson Grow Old (Erstveröffentlichung)
Wild World
Where Do the Children Play?
Hard Headed Woman
Father and Son
The Wind
Morning Has Broken
Moonshadow
Peace Train
Sitting
Can't Keep It In
Foreigner Suite (excerpt)
Oh Very Young
Another Saturday Night (Sam Cooke)
Majik of Majiks
(Remember the Days of the) Old Schoolyard
Just Another Night

Veröffentlichungsversion Oktober 2003 (Europa)
Die Titelzusammenstellung ist identisch mit der CD Remember Cat Stevens - The Ultimate Collection vom November 1999

Moonshadow
Father and Son
Morning Has Broken
Wild World
The First Cut Is the Deepest
Lady D'Arbanville
Oh Very Young
Matthew and Son
Sitting
Hard Headed Woman
I Love My Dog
Ruby Love
Don't Be Shy
Can't Keep It In
Here Comes My Baby
Into White
(Remember the Days of The) Old School Yard
Where Do the Children Play?
How Can I Tell You
Another Saturday Night (Sam Cooke)
Sad Lisa
Just Another Night
Peace Train
If You Want to Sing Out, Sing Out

Mit Bonus DVD:

Moonshadow  (Cat Stevens in Concert 1971, BBC)
Wild World (Cat Stevens in Concert 1971, BBC)
Father and Son (Cat Stevens in Concert 1971, BBC)
Hard Headed Woman (Majikat Earth Tour 1976)
Where Do The Children Play?  (Granada TV)
(Remember The Days Of The) Old School Yard (Promo Video)
Teaser and the Firecat (Animationsfilm)

Verkaufszahlen und Auszeichnungen

The Very Best of Cat Stevens (1990)

The Very Best of Cat Stevens (2000)

Weblinks
 Offizielle Website von Yusuf Islam (englisch)
 Offizielle dt. Website von Yusuf Islam

Album (Pop)
Album 1990
Album 2000
Cat-Stevens-Album
Best-of-Album
Mehrfach-Platin-Album (Vereinigtes Königreich)

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Nick Suzuki – Owen Sound Attack – Player Profile
Posted on March 12, 2017 March 12, 2017 by Dominic Tiano
Hometown: London, Ontario
Position: Center
OHL Draft: Round 1, 14th overall, 2015 Priority Selection
Owen Sound attack center Nick Suzuki played his minor midget hockey for the London Jr Knights during the 2015-2015 season where, in 31 games, he scored a league leading 34 goals and league leading 86 points. He would win silver at the OHL Gold Cup in which he registered 3 goals and 6 points in 5 games. He also played in 6 games at the OHL Cup scoring twice and adding 4 assists in 6 games. Suzuki would be named the Alliance player of the year.
The Attack would make Suzuki the 14th overall pick at the 2015 Ontario Hockey League Priority Selection.
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Suzuki would go on to have an impressive rookie season and finish tied for 5th in goals by a rookie with 20. The coaching staff almost immediately had confidence in his abilities and he received top minutes 5-on-5 and on the powerplay. He scored 5 powerplay goals to go along with 4 assists. He also saw time on the penalty kill and scored a short-handed goal. He played for Team Canada White at the World Hockey Challenge Under-17 scoring once, with 4 points in 6 games. He was named to the OHL First All-Rookie Team.
Questions started to surface a year ago, about whether Suzuki had the size and strength to be successful at the NHL level. In some circles, there were questions about his defensive game and even his compete level when it comes to defence.
The 2016-2017 season began for Suzuki at the Ivan Hlinka Memorial. He scored 1 goal and 3 assists in 4 games.
Just about every question regarding Suzuki – except the size issue – has been answered this season. He's been about the most consistent forward from start to finish this season. He was my pick for Draft Eligible Player of the Month for November and February. At the end of February, he was among the leaders in a variety of statistical categories among draft eligible players.
Suzuki is a complete player with a high compete level at both ends of the ice. He's an intelligent player on and off the ice – he was named Academic Player of the Month for October. He thinks the game so well and processes what's happening even before it happens. His anticipation is off the charts good. Combining the asset with his high end passing abilities makes him an offensive threat whenever the puck is on his stick. I don't think there are many players who can differentiate between what is the better scoring chance: taking the shot myself, or setting up a teammate.
Suzuki is also not afraid of the dirty areas. He has impeccable timing, getting to loose pucks in front of the goal to knock in rebounds without fear. He's also willing to engage along the walls, but the lack of strength is a problem for him.
Here's the thing though when it comes to Suzuki: With an August 1999 birthdate, he'll be just 17 years old when drafted – one of the youngest players eligible for the draft. So, he has more room to grow than most. If he was 6'2", we'd be talking about him as a top 10 pick.
Suzuki was listed on NHL Central Scouting's Players to Watch list as a B prospect in November. A B prospect is typically a second or third round pick. On their January mid-term rankings, Suzuki was ranked 16th among North American skaters.
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Trumpet and organ is a very common musical combination. Despite the rather large number of original duo compositions written in the 20th century, most recordings for this scoring fall back heavily on the hoary transcriptions that have long been staples of the genre. Even so, several of the more recent compositions have become standards, most notably the Czech composer Petr Eben's Okna (Windows). By welcome contrast to many recordings, this CD by the British Illumina Duo (founded in 2012) concentrates entirely on relatively recent original works: three from the 2000s, one from the late 90s and one from the late 70s.
Though he has written in nearly all forms, American composer Dan Locklair (b. 1949) is best-known by far for his organ music and even has one work (the 1988 suite Rubrics) that has truly entered the standard repertoire. Two works of his are present on this recording, a trumpet/organ version of his PHOENIX Processional (a pleasant and reasonably straightforward piece of ceremonial music) andTrumpets of Light, a colorful four movement suite/sonata inspired by Bible verses about light. Many of the usual Locklair style elements are present: especially the grand and broad processional music with a slow pulse and the mixed meter splashy rhythmic toccata based on intentionally limited pitch material.
Two of the pieces were explicitly written for the Illumina Duo by young British composers: Five Poems (2014) by Paul Burke (b. 1988) and Silver Tree Fanfare (2016) by Solfa Carlile (b. 1985). Each movement of the Burke is inspired by a different (diverse) poem, and the result is a suite of varied character pieces. This substantial work (30 minutes) is the real high point of the CD—truly exceptional new music for this combination: attractive and compellingly put together throughout with both tremendous variety and tremendous integration. This is the best new trumpet and organ duo that I have heard in many years, and it deserves to be taken into the repertoire of many performers.
The Carlile piece plays with a kind of antagonism between the two instruments and is inspired by a Scottish variant of the Snow White story, specifically a narrative of "mother (Silver Tree) and daughter (Gold Trree) vying to see who would be the most beautiful queen." Although a much shorter work (5 minutes) than the Burke suite, it is also appealing in its sound world and musical trajectory. Swedish composer Torbjörn Hultmark (b. 1957) wrote Triptyk in 1979; it is inspired by verses from Psalm 143. With its dramatic and aleatoric elements, it is music very much of its time, with the distinct spirit and sound of much concert music of the 1970s.
The disc was recorded in Portsmouth Cathedral, and the Nicholson organ is beautifully captured. The playing is uniformly excellent, and all the music is well chosen and shows great variety. The disc is worth it frankly for the Burke piece alone, which is a true stunner.
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Convivium Records
Convivium Records is a private recording, production, and distribution label, based in London, UK, provides cost conscious opportunities for composers, performers, educators and students to release and market their music on disc and online globally to professional studio standard. With a range of label artists from contemporary British composers to cathedral choirs, performers and vocal ensembles, the label offers expertise across all aspects of private and commercial productions, with a team of engineers, performers, directors, producers and designers supporting projects from concept to album delivery and marketing.
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Adrian Green2018-12-12T12:21:33+00:00