Today we'll be looking at the events of Sept. 11, 2001 and how they were able to happen. After researching only moderately, it was easy to come to the conclusion that the events were not planned by our government, and as far as procedure, nothing went wrong. I didn't stop at only moderately researching this, though, but further looking into the matter only reaffirms what was already plain to see.
First of all, I'd like to site my sources because a majority of the conclusions come from them and one in particular is worth reading. An article by Popular Mechanics involving more than 300 experts, contacts, and organizations (which are fully documented in the article), looks at the 16 most common theories floating around for a conspiracy and debunks all of them. Here is the link for that article:
http://www.popularmechanics.com/science/defense/1227842.html?page=1&c=y
Also here is a short list of other sites used:
LetsRoll911.org
StandDown.net
sandiego.indymedia.org
AttackOnAmerica.net
WhatReallyHappened.com
Prisonplanet.com
911review.org
Pentagonstrike.co.uk
TheForbiddenKnowledge.com
(all of the above were referenced in the first article, so I checked them out myself)
The movie "United 93"
My experience in military aviation.
A few points brought up in these articles I can verify without a shadow of a doubt. First I'll justify my experience. My Marine Corps occupational specialty is 5954, and in my unit are also 5953s, 5952s, and various 7200 field air traffic controllers. We are an air traffic control detachment of less than 100 marines. We only have two types of marines in the unit; air traffic controllers and maintenance personnel to setup and fix the gear the controllers use. A link to job descriptions for the 5900 field (specific job links are accessible) is here:
http://usmilitary.about.com/od/enlistedjo2/a/59.htm
and a job description for the 7200 field is here:
http://usmilitary.about.com/od/enlistedjo2/a/72.htm
My unit is MACS-1 Det. A (Marine Air Control Squadron One Detachment A)
If you are interested to see how the events rolled out that day, a good resource is the movie "United 93." When watching the movie, there may seem to be a lot of confusion as far as leadership, but I can assure you that even in the movie, everything was done by the book and in a highly professional manner. Air traffic controllers are payed a decent amount of money for their skills. They are highly decisive, well pronounced and almost flawless in their work. (what other profession can claim this?) Any air traffic controller with any sort of glitch on his record will never be able to find a job. FAA rules are too strict on that. So the men that are on the job are those that are the cream of the crop, especially at the FAA control substations, where all traffic is monitored for different regions, as these are similar to a headquarters position. I have no doubt in the leadership in either the FAA or military leadership for ATC. As far as one of these men knowing prior of the events is inconceivable, because it would take a very large amount of people in the community to make any kind of deception. There are too many eyes watching constantly to get away with even the slightest purposeful lie. Nothing was done wrong in the way of procedure, either. Prior to that date, there was no set procedure for what happened. I'm actually surprised things happened as quickly as they did, except for the response time of fighter jets. I was unaware we had so few available at any one second. I'm sure the events drastically changed that for NORAD, though. An effective plan could not have been conceived prior to this. We learn from mistakes and adjust accordingly. It's nearly impossible to be effectively prepared for any circumstance, especially without it ever happening before.
One small comment. If my barracks windows have shatter protection, wouldn't it make sense that the Pentagon windows, portholes to the hub of military intelligence, would be just as protected if not 10x more? Really, c'mon. One theory bases its assumptions that the Pentagon was hit with a missile or small plane on the fact that many windows directly surrounding the crash section didn't break. I should hope the Pentagon would be hard to infiltrate.
I have much more, but can bring it up in discussion to save you some reading. Thank you for making it this far and I hope you can see how easy the conclusions were come to.
Shawn Snyder is currently enlisted in the finest fighting force alive: the United States Marine Corps. He has served two combat tours in Iraq and will be doing another one shortly.
First of all, I'd like to site my sources because a majority of the conclusions come from them and one in particular is worth reading. An article by Popular Mechanics involving more than 300 experts, contacts, and organizations (which are fully documented in the article), looks at the 16 most common theories floating around for a conspiracy and debunks all of them. Here is the link for that article:
http://www.popularmechanics.com/science/defense/1227842.html?page=1&c=y
Also here is a short list of other sites used:
LetsRoll911.org
StandDown.net
sandiego.indymedia.org
AttackOnAmerica.net
WhatReallyHappened.com
Prisonplanet.com
911review.org
Pentagonstrike.co.uk
TheForbiddenKnowledge.com
(all of the above were referenced in the first article, so I checked them out myself)
The movie "United 93"
My experience in military aviation.
A few points brought up in these articles I can verify without a shadow of a doubt. First I'll justify my experience. My Marine Corps occupational specialty is 5954, and in my unit are also 5953s, 5952s, and various 7200 field air traffic controllers. We are an air traffic control detachment of less than 100 marines. We only have two types of marines in the unit; air traffic controllers and maintenance personnel to setup and fix the gear the controllers use. A link to job descriptions for the 5900 field (specific job links are accessible) is here:
http://usmilitary.about.com/od/enlistedjo2/a/59.htm
and a job description for the 7200 field is here:
http://usmilitary.about.com/od/enlistedjo2/a/72.htm
My unit is MACS-1 Det. A (Marine Air Control Squadron One Detachment A)
If you are interested to see how the events rolled out that day, a good resource is the movie "United 93." When watching the movie, there may seem to be a lot of confusion as far as leadership, but I can assure you that even in the movie, everything was done by the book and in a highly professional manner. Air traffic controllers are payed a decent amount of money for their skills. They are highly decisive, well pronounced and almost flawless in their work. (what other profession can claim this?) Any air traffic controller with any sort of glitch on his record will never be able to find a job. FAA rules are too strict on that. So the men that are on the job are those that are the cream of the crop, especially at the FAA control substations, where all traffic is monitored for different regions, as these are similar to a headquarters position. I have no doubt in the leadership in either the FAA or military leadership for ATC. As far as one of these men knowing prior of the events is inconceivable, because it would take a very large amount of people in the community to make any kind of deception. There are too many eyes watching constantly to get away with even the slightest purposeful lie. Nothing was done wrong in the way of procedure, either. Prior to that date, there was no set procedure for what happened. I'm actually surprised things happened as quickly as they did, except for the response time of fighter jets. I was unaware we had so few available at any one second. I'm sure the events drastically changed that for NORAD, though. An effective plan could not have been conceived prior to this. We learn from mistakes and adjust accordingly. It's nearly impossible to be effectively prepared for any circumstance, especially without it ever happening before.
One small comment. If my barracks windows have shatter protection, wouldn't it make sense that the Pentagon windows, portholes to the hub of military intelligence, would be just as protected if not 10x more? Really, c'mon. One theory bases its assumptions that the Pentagon was hit with a missile or small plane on the fact that many windows directly surrounding the crash section didn't break. I should hope the Pentagon would be hard to infiltrate.
I have much more, but can bring it up in discussion to save you some reading. Thank you for making it this far and I hope you can see how easy the conclusions were come to.
Shawn Snyder is currently enlisted in the finest fighting force alive: the United States Marine Corps. He has served two combat tours in Iraq and will be doing another one shortly.
