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A battered fortress stands
Lt. Gen. Timothy Maude could not have felt more secure. The Army’s deputy chief of staff for personnel was leading a meeting in his newly renovated Pentagon office at 9:38 a.m., Sept. 11, when war tore through the walls.
Renovations saved lives
The terrorist attack on the Pentagon was an enormous tragedy for the U.S. military, but it could have been even worse.
Bush: ‘This battle will take time’
Just two days after terrorists attacked the Pentagon and World Trade Center, Congress moved to put the United States on the road to war.
How could it happen?
Was it a failure of intelligence? Or did the terrorists who attacked the Pentagon and World Trade Center succeed because they did something that, until Sept. 11, was unthinkable?
Soldiers work to gather fallen comrades’ remains
Serving in The Old Guard’s Fife and Drum Corps didn’t prepare Staff Sgt. Christine Adamski to pull the remains of fellow soldiers from the smoldering wreckage of the Pentagon.
‘Pearl Harbor of my generation’: Troops react to Tuesday terror
Disbelief and anger.
Personnel chief Maude, assistant still unaccounted for after attack
It was in late June that one of the Army’s largest Pentagon agencies, the Office of the Deputy Chief of Staff for Personnel, made an en-masse move from drab and vermin-infested quarters near the Mall entrance to newly refurbished digs on the west side of the building.
Terrorists’ plot had too many twists to anticipate
It seemed impossible to pull off.
‘A new era’ for defense spending
The nation’s shift to a wartime footing in the wake of the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon have dramatically altered the tone of the military debate in Washington.
Attacks on the U.S. and its interests
Sept. 11, 2001 The World Trade Center and the Pentagon are attacked after terrorists hijack four jetliners. Two hit the trade center’s twin towers with such force that the buildings collapse within hours; thousands are killed, most buried in mountains of rubble. The Pentagon strike plows a huge hole in the west side of the building, killing about 190 people. The fourth jet, perhaps on its way to another Washington target, crashes near Pennsylvania’s border with Maryland.
Defending America —Service members respond to nation’s distress
While the nation still reeled from the psychic aftershocks of the modern-day kamikaze missions that seared Sept. 11, 2001, onto the pages of history, U.S. military units scrambled to ensure no further harm was done.
First to act
NEW YORK — Whoever said “never volunteer” has never met a National Guardsman. Or a sailor. Or a Marine.
Defending Washington —
Protecting the nation’s capital from terrorist attacks such as the Sept. 11 crash of American Airlines Flight 77 into the west side of the Pentagon is practically impossible, defense leaders and counterterrorism experts say.
NORAD caught off guard by domestic hijackings
When it comes to defending U.S. airspace, the Defense Department always has looked outward, focused on stopping a flight — whether a drug-smuggling Cessna or a Russian Bear bomber — from getting too close to the border without being identified.
Feeling like a fifth wheel
McGUIRE AIR FORCE BASE, N.J. — Anxious to save lives, about 500 medical personnel from six Air Force bases set up an Expeditionary Medical Support unit here two days after terrorists destroyed the World Trade Center in New York.
Military answers call for aid
Marine Gunnery Sgt. John Leach crawled with New York firefighters through the rubble of the World Trade Center towers, shining a flashlight in search of survivors.
‘I just wanted to do something’: Troops donate blood in droves
Appalled by the carnage inflicted by terrorists Sept. 11, hundreds of service members and civilians rolled up their sleeves to give blood at the National Naval Medical Center in Bethesda, Md.
Posts on high security
FORT BRAGG, N.C. — The Sept. 11 attacks on the Pentagon and the World Trade Center have turned the home of the Army’s elite combat forces into a war zone, with barricades, armed troops and armored vehicles deployed on its street corners.
Thousands of guardsmen called to duty
Immediately after the Sept. 11 terrorist strikes on New York and Washington, D.C., thousands of Army and Air National Guard members scrambled to support relief efforts.
Army declares mourning period, prepares for war
The Army has declared a 30-day period of mourning to honor those killed during the terrorist attacks Sept. 11.
COMMENTARY: Familiar feelings as the unimaginable unfolds
There is no doubt in my mind that last week’s attack on America was an act of war.
The banner yet waves
Congress approved a resolution Sept. 13 asking every U.S. citizen to fly American flags outside homes, businesses, public buildings and churches for 30 days in response to the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon.
Families of missing victims try to find comfort
The faces of the families were etched with fear, frustration and confusion as they arrived at the Pentagon Family Assistance Center on Sept. 12, the day after terrorists attacked New York and Washington, D.C.
Recruiters not being overwhelmed
Military recruiters across the country shouldn’t expect a tidal wave of able-bodied young Americans signing up to fight for America after the terrorist attacks in New York and Washington, D.C.
EDITORIAL: Awake, oh mighty giant
Americans are used to fighting wars — but on foreign soil. Since the Civil War ended 136 years ago, that’s been our custom.
BACK TALK: Military needs more, better-trained forces to fight war on terrorism
Last Tuesday, a highly coordinated terrorist attack accomplished what Hitler’s rocket and bomber designers dreamed of and what the Japanese attack on Peal Harbor never accomplished: Inflicting massive casualties on Americans on their own soil.
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