I was in Germany at the time I was working with another airman on a generator. We heard something on the shop radio tuned into armed forces network about a small plane flying into the World Trade course this was before it was clear what was going down. This around 1300 (+6 hours of Eastern time).
About 20 minutes later they raised the THREATON to Charlie but we kept working. A few minutes after that they pulled everyone aside and said that two planes hit in the middle of this briefing was when the Pentagon got hit. I'll never forget that because air got real heavy. Of course that put things to THREATCON DELTA. That was hairy because at that point we had no idea what might come next. I think over the next day or two I was able to nap for 40 minutes and I ate one peanut butter sandwich.
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