101st Fighter Squadron [101st FS]

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• 18 F-15A/B

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• Otis ANG Base, MA

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• 101st Fighter Squadron

The 101st Fighter Squadron was originally designated as the 101st Aero Squadron which was organized at Kelly Field, TX, on August 22, 1917. The squadron deployed to France where it was redesignated as the 639th Aero Squadron. The squadron was deactivated upon its return in the United State in April 1919.

The squadron was consolidated with the 101st Squadron which was activated as a Massachusetts National Guard unit in November 1921.

During World War II, the squadron took part in combat operations in Europe.

The squadron was redesignated as the 101st Fighter Squadron on July 29, 1946 and federally recognized as a unit of the Massachusetts National Guard.

The squadron was called to active duty as a result of the Berlin Crisis.

The squadron transitioned to the F-15 fighter in 1988.

The 101st, along with its parent unit, the 102nd Fighter Wing, was reassigned to Air Combat Command, in June 1992.

The 101st was deployed to Panama from 1991 to 1995, as part of Operation Coronet Nighthawk. The 101st also took part in the 1996 NORAD Exercise Amalgam Warrior 96-1.

The 101st FS, along with the 102nd FW, deployed in early 1999 for six weeks to Incirlik AB, Turkey, as part of Operation Northern Watch, enforcing the northern no-fly zone over Iraq.

150 miles atlantic

Update (08/03) : The Dayton Discord (Village Voice NYC)

Update (08/01) : Senator Dayton: NORAD Lied About 9/11 (9/11Truth.org)

Dayton: FAA, NORAD hid 9/11 failures

Star Tribune -July 31

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Sen. Mark Dayton, D-Minn., charged Friday that the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) have covered up "catastrophic failures" that left the nation vulnerable during the Sept. 11 hijackings.

"For almost three years now, NORAD officials and FAA officials have been able to hide their critical failures that left this country defenseless during two of the worst hours in our history," Dayton declared during a Senate Governmental Affairs Committee hearing...

During the hearing, leaders of the Sept. 11 commission urged Congress to promptly create a national intelligence chief to command a fragmented U.S. counterterrorism effort before Al-Qaida strikes again.

"The intelligence community is not going to get its job done unless somebody is really in charge," said the commission's vice chair, former Rep. Lee Hamilton, D-Ind. Hamilton and commission chairman Tom Kean, a former Republican governor of New Jersey, also pressed for creation of a National Counterterrorism Center to end intelligence-sharing failures that may have enabled the Sept. 11 hijackers.

"What we're trying to do is force the sharing of information and then make one person responsible," Kean said.

The Senate committee, moving with urgency despite Congress' summer recess, gave the two leaders a warm reception in the first of 15 or more congressional hearings in coming weeks on the 40 recommendations laid out in the commission's book-length report.

"I think you stood your ground very convincingly," Connecticut Sen. Joseph Lieberman, the committee's ranking Democrat, told Kean and Hamilton as the hearing concluded.

Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, the committee chair, said she plans to hold several more hearings in hopes that the panel can adopt legislation by Oct. 1, possibly for floor consideration after the November election.

Dayton: 'NORAD lied'

During the hearing, Dayton told leaders of the Sept. 11 commission, that, based on the commission's report, a NORAD chronology made public a week after the attacks was grossly misleading.

The chronology said the FAA notified the military's emergency air command of three of the hijackings while those jetliners were still airborne. Dayton cited commission findings that the FAA failed to inform NORAD about three of the planes until after they had crashed.

And, he said, a squadron of NORAD fighter planes that was scrambled was sent east over the Atlantic Ocean and was 150 miles from Washington, D.C., when the third plane struck the Pentagon -- "farther than they were before they took off."

Dayton said NORAD officials "lied to the American people, they lied to Congress and they lied to your 9/11 commission to create a false impression of competence, communication and protection of the American people."

He told Kean and Hamilton that if the commission's report is correct, President Bush "should fire whoever at FAA, at NORAD ... betrayed their public trust by not telling us the truth."

Asked about Dayton's allegation, a spokesman for Colorado Springs-based NORAD said, "We stand on our testimony to the commission" and declined to discuss the 2001 chronology.

Erin Utzinger, a spokeswoman for Dayton, said the senator "assumes the FAA knew of NORAD's coverup."

FAA spokeswoman Rebecca Trexler said the agency "has never and would never intentionally misrepresent or alter information. We worked very closely with the 9/11 commission and provided them with everything that was available to us."

Dayton told reporters that he skipped festivities at the Democratic National Committee Tuesday night and sat in his hotel room until 2:30 a.m. reading the commission report. After piecing together the section about the FAA and NORAD, he said, he could not fall asleep.

Dayton outraged

"I'm a strong defender of government," he said. "When government fails, it really outrages me. It just destroys peoples' trust and faith."

Using the chronology, Dayton argued that if the FAA had promptly sent a systemwide message about the hijackings, the pilot of the fourth plane seized, United Airlines Flight 93, might have been able to secure the cockpit doors and land the plane.

Passengers, including Minnesota native Tom Burnett, Jr., "could very well be alive," he said.

"This is unbelievable negligence," Dayton said. "It doesn't matter if we spend $550 billion annually on our national defense, if we reorganize our intelligence or if we restructure congressional oversight if people don't pick up the phone to call one another."

He also noted that NORAD could not find the hijacked jetliners because terrorists turned off their transponders and NORAD lacked adequate radar to locate them without that beamed signal.

Dayton said NORAD also falsely claimed that during the hijackings, it had F-16 Combat Air Patrol planes in place at Langley Air Force Base in Virginia and an AWAC command ship in the air to protect the nation's capital.

Dayton, a former Minnesota state auditor, called the FAA's and NORAD's failures "the most gross incompetence and dereliction of responsibility and negligence that I've ever, under those extreme circumstances, witnessed in the public sector."

Greg Gordon is at ggordon@mcclatchydc.com.

Washington on exercise

Sept. 19, 2002
	Navywide reflection on day of tragedy First carrier to respond marks Sept. 11 anniversary BY LT. BILLY PUGH 8:46 a.m., Sept. 11 … At the same time of day as the terrorists’ attacks on United States soil one year ago, the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier George Washington, operating in the Arabian Sea, began a commemoration that culminated in passing the torch of freedom from the George Washington Battle Group to the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier Abraham Lincoln Battle Group — at 12:46 Zulu, the exact minute the World Trade Center was struck. In the hours preceding the turnover of the two carrier battle groups on deployment, George Washington paused to reflect on the events of that most horrific day of Sept. 11, 2001. A special ceremony to remember those who lost their lives on that day, as well as others who were victims of other terrorist actions, was held in the ship’s hangar bay No. 2. It began with the piping aboard of the official party, parading of the colors and the national anthem; whose words evoked images of American cities under attack in this century and flags raised by New York City firefighters atop smoldering rubble or hung from the crumbled wall of the Pentagon. The words sung today rang truer than ever before and poignantly set the mood for the 5,800 sailors aboard “GW.” One year ago, the first carrier to respond steamed north. George Washington was winding up a routine four-day under way training period in the Atlantic Ocean. Suddenly … unexpectedly … it was ordered to station. With Commander 2nd Fleet, Cruiser Destroyer Group 2 staff and a composite carrier air wing embarked, the carrier steamed at flank speed for New York City to protect the shores and defend the skies of America’s eastern seaboard against further attacks. The next morning, as the sun came up and the carrier steamed within sight of New York City, the plumes of smoke that still billowed from the fallen towers could be seen miles away by those aboard the aircraft carrier. The ceremony’s invocation, delivered by the ship’s chaplain, Cmdr. R. Ableson, brought a calm silence to the hangar bay as each person reflected on the occasion. The sincere and uplifting words of Capt. Marty J. Erdossy, GW’s commanding officer, and Rear Adm. Joseph A. Sestak Jr., commanding officer of the George Washington Battle Group, expressed the feelings of a nation and inspired the sailors who had just spent the last 55 days supporting the global war on terrorism in the Arabian Sea and in the skies over Afghanistan. In the words of Sestak, “… we don’t remember the day of Sept. 11 to just dwell on those we lost, or the horror of what was wrought … rather, we also remember Sept. 11 because it reminds us of who we are, where we are going, and what we are all about in the military: service in the arms of our country against whomever, whatever threatens that which we love — our freedom.” At the conclusion of their remarks, a two-bell ceremony was conducted to honor those who had fallen at the Pentagon, World Trade Center and in the skies above Pennsylvania, as well as the many others orphaned and widowed … the citations were read … crisp hand salutes were rendered … and two bells were struck, each one symbolic in many ways. George Washington and escort units’ six-month deployment began June 20 from Norfolk. With the responsibility to protect our troops on the ground and preclude the movement of terrorists by sea, the George Washington Battle Group prepared to be relieved by the Abraham Lincoln Battle Group in a few hours. Before the ceremony concluded, a wreath was tossed from aircraft elevator two into the seas as a reminder of those who had fallen. A 21-gun salute reverberated in the hangar bay, sharply breaking the magnificent silence — then the playing of “Taps” added to the solemnity of the occasion and reflected back on those who lost their lives. In one final act of grandeur, at exactly 9:45 a.m., the time the Pentagon’s west wall was shattered, a four-plane “missing-man formation” streaked toward George Washington, fully visible to those in the hangar bay and causing a wave of emotion as the “Dash 2” aircraft rocketed up to the heavens. This most impressive commemoration provided George Washington battle group’s sailors with a sense of purpose, reflected the indomitable American spirit and inspired renewed patriotism and pride. In the words of our president, “A terrorist attack designed to tear us apart has instead bound us together as a nation.”

The next morning

NEW YORK PORT REMAINS CLOSED AS AIRCRAFT CARRIER ARRIVES

The Port of New York remained closed late Wednesday as the aircraft carrier USS GEORGE WASHINGTON arrived at the harbor. The port was closed Tuesday to facilitate the movement of ferries and other watercraft being used to evacuate people from Manhattan and to bring rescue workers to the scene of the devastation at the World Trade Center.

The Navy on Tuesday dispatched the aircraft carrier to New York Harbor, and other vessels were deployed off the East Coast. Officials from the Port Authority, USCG and Customs met Wednesday morning but failed to determine when the port would be reopened.

Ships arriving in the port supply the region with a number of vital commodities. For example, Larrabee said the TOSCO refinery in New Jersey "provides a high percentage of gasoline and jet fuel for this area."

Ships that had completed discharging their cargo were being allowed to leave the port, but arriving ships were not being allowed to dock and ships that were tied up could not be worked. The USCG established several safety zones in New York Harbor, around the George Washington and Triborough Bridges; from Constable Hook, Bayonne to St. George on Staten Island; and around the Verrazano Narrows Bridge.

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The Virginian-Pilot, 28 December 02, by Jack Dorsey and Dennis O'Brien
GW carrier on tether to return to Mideast.
The USS George Washington (CVN-73) battle group is placed on 96 hour notice depart for the Gulf

guardian

Vigilant Guardian

The VIGILANT GUARDIAN (VG) is a VIGILANT OVERVIEW (VO) Command Post Exercise (CPX) conducted in conjunction with USCINCSTRAT-sponsored GLOBAL GUARDIAN and USCINCSPACE-sponsored APOLLO GUARDIAN exercises. The exercise involves all HQ NORAD levels of command and is designed to exercise most aspects of the NORAD mission. One VG is scheduled each year and the length will vary depending on the exercise scenario and objectives.

Vigilant Guardian

One of the more troubling aspects of Condi's testimony is her continuing reliance on the assertion that nobody in the administration knew that terrorists might use airplanes as missiles. The primary problem with this idea, as many have pointed out, rests in the fact that she was warned that attackers might try to crash a commandeered jetliner into the July 2001 G-8 Summit meeting in Genoa, Italy, killing President Bush and other world leaders. On twelve separate occasions the American intelligence community issued reports warning of similar plans.

Was NORAD training for just such a contingency? Coincidentally or otherwise (some think otherwise), on September 11, 2001 that agency was embroiled in a large-scale training scenario called Vigilant Guardian. Details of this under-reported exercise remain sketchy, but it appears that the idea of "hijacked jets" played a role. An Aviation Week story of June 3, 2002 argued that the exercise expedited NORAD's response to the emergency:


Part of the exercise?" the colonel wondered. No; this is a real-world event, he was told. Several days into a semiannual exercise known as Vigilant Guardian, NEADS was fully staffed, its key officers and enlisted supervisors already manning the operations center "battle cab."

In retrospect, the exercise would prove to be a serendipitous enabler of a rapid military response to terrorist attacks on Sept. 11. Senior officers involved in Vigilant Guardian were manning Norad command centers throughout the U.S. and Canada, available to make immediate decisions.

Further on, we read:

Mineta's decision--and the military recommendation that triggered it--may have been prompted by a few airline pilots reporting terrorists on the radio, talking about other hijacked aircraft. American Flight 77 had hit the Pentagon, and United Flight 93 was being tracked, heading for Chicago or Cleveland, then Washington, prompting the F-16s' scramble.

"We had all of our armed fighters in the air, but needed more," Marr said. Every unit in the northeastern U.S. was loading F-16s, F-15s and A-10s with any armament available, then being directed to combat air patrols (CAPs) over major cities. Soon, Navy F/A-18s, F-14s and E-2Cs--some from two carriers steaming off the East Coast--were flying CAP and surveillance missions over major cities. Ultimately, Navy P-3s and USAF/ ANG C-130s would be pressed into service, using their normal radars to search for intruders.


The Aviation Week piece contains further interesting revelations. Reports streamed into NORAD of other hijacked airliners; those glued to the news on that day (as who was not?) will recall that such warnings also nosed their way onto the airwaves from time to time. Another report concerned an alleged plan to destroy the entrance to Cheyenne mountain headquarters, using the proverbial Ryder truck filled with explosives. We can presume that this nightmarish possibility had a foundation other than wispy legend-spinning, because NORAD briefly considered evacuating Cheyenne Mountain -- at a time when the country was under attack. I'd like to know more about how this "rumor" began.

But Vigilant Guardian should rivet our closest attention. If, as the Aviation Week writers claim, the exercise helped to ready NORAD for the disaster, then why did so many later ask "Where was NORAD on September 11?" Could the exercise have in some way aided the terrorists?

The few news accounts mentioning Vigilant Guardian emphasize that commanders understood quickly that the real-time hijackings had no relation to the training simulation. But can we believe those assurances? Given the credibility problems that color so much of what this administration has said since September 11, and given the fact that all bureaucracies take ass-covering lessons from Fruit of the Loom, how can we rest certain that the simulation did not hinder reaction to the Real McCoy?

All of which leads to the most troubling idea: Did the terrorists know about Vigilant Guardian?

I hope the 9/11 commission answers these questions. I doubt that we'll hear any answers, unless we press for them.

The Virginian-Pilot, 13 December 02, by Jack Dorsey
GW will be home for Christmas
The USS George Washington (CVN - 73) battle group is making revolutions for a Christmas rendezvous with loved ones.

Update (08/03) : The Dayton Discord (Village Voice NYC)

Update (08/01) : Senator Dayton: NORAD Lied About 9/11 (9/11Truth.org)

Dayton: FAA, NORAD hid 9/11 failures

Star Tribune -July 31

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Sen. Mark Dayton, D-Minn., charged Friday that the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) have covered up "catastrophic failures" that left the nation vulnerable during the Sept. 11 hijackings.

"For almost three years now, NORAD officials and FAA officials have been able to hide their critical failures that left this country defenseless during two of the worst hours in our history," Dayton declared during a Senate Governmental Affairs Committee hearing...



During the hearing, leaders of the Sept. 11 commission urged Congress to promptly create a national intelligence chief to command a fragmented U.S. counterterrorism effort before Al-Qaida strikes again.

"The intelligence community is not going to get its job done unless somebody is really in charge," said the commission's vice chair, former Rep. Lee Hamilton, D-Ind. Hamilton and commission chairman Tom Kean, a former Republican governor of New Jersey, also pressed for creation of a National Counterterrorism Center to end intelligence-sharing failures that may have enabled the Sept. 11 hijackers.

"What we're trying to do is force the sharing of information and then make one person responsible," Kean said.

The Senate committee, moving with urgency despite Congress' summer recess, gave the two leaders a warm reception in the first of 15 or more congressional hearings in coming weeks on the 40 recommendations laid out in the commission's book-length report.

"I think you stood your ground very convincingly," Connecticut Sen. Joseph Lieberman, the committee's ranking Democrat, told Kean and Hamilton as the hearing concluded.

Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, the committee chair, said she plans to hold several more hearings in hopes that the panel can adopt legislation by Oct. 1, possibly for floor consideration after the November election.

Dayton: 'NORAD lied'

During the hearing, Dayton told leaders of the Sept. 11 commission, that, based on the commission's report, a NORAD chronology made public a week after the attacks was grossly misleading.

The chronology said the FAA notified the military's emergency air command of three of the hijackings while those jetliners were still airborne. Dayton cited commission findings that the FAA failed to inform NORAD about three of the planes until after they had crashed.
 

9/11 Commission Report

And, he said, a squadron of NORAD fighter planes that was scrambled was sent east over the Atlantic Ocean and was 150 miles from Washington, D.C., when the third plane struck the Pentagon -- "farther than they were before they took off."

Dayton said NORAD officials "lied to the American people, they lied to Congress and they lied to your 9/11 commission to create a false impression of competence, communication and protection of the American people."

He told Kean and Hamilton that if the commission's report is correct, President Bush "should fire whoever at FAA, at NORAD ... betrayed their public trust by not telling us the truth."

Asked about Dayton's allegation, a spokesman for Colorado Springs-based NORAD said, "We stand on our testimony to the commission" and declined to discuss the 2001 chronology.

Erin Utzinger, a spokeswoman for Dayton, said the senator "assumes the FAA knew of NORAD's coverup."

FAA spokeswoman Rebecca Trexler said the agency "has never and would never intentionally misrepresent or alter information. We worked very closely with the 9/11 commission and provided them with everything that was available to us."

Dayton told reporters that he skipped festivities at the Democratic National Committee Tuesday night and sat in his hotel room until 2:30 a.m. reading the commission report. After piecing together the section about the FAA and NORAD, he said, he could not fall asleep.

Dayton outraged

"I'm a strong defender of government," he said. "When government fails, it really outrages me. It just destroys peoples' trust and faith."

Using the chronology, Dayton argued that if the FAA had promptly sent a systemwide message about the hijackings, the pilot of the fourth plane seized, United Airlines Flight 93, might have been able to secure the cockpit doors and land the plane.

Passengers, including Minnesota native Tom Burnett, Jr., "could very well be alive," he said.

"This is unbelievable negligence," Dayton said. "It doesn't matter if we spend $550 billion annually on our national defense, if we reorganize our intelligence or if we restructure congressional oversight if people don't pick up the phone to call one another."

He also noted that NORAD could not find the hijacked jetliners because terrorists turned off their transponders and NORAD lacked adequate radar to locate them without that beamed signal.

Dayton said NORAD also falsely claimed that during the hijackings, it had F-16 Combat Air Patrol planes in place at Langley Air Force Base in Virginia and an AWAC command ship in the air to protect the nation's capital.

Dayton, a former Minnesota state auditor, called the FAA's and NORAD's failures "the most gross incompetence and dereliction of responsibility and negligence that I've ever, under those extreme circumstances, witnessed in the public sector."

Greg Gordon is at ggordon@mcclatchydc.com.

Navywide reflection on day of tragedy

First carrier to respond marks Sept. 11 anniversary

BY LT. BILLY PUGH

8:46 a.m., Sept. 11 … At the same time of day as the terrorists’ attacks on United States soil one year ago, the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier George Washington, operating in the Arabian Sea, began a commemoration that culminated in passing the torch of freedom from the George Washington Battle Group to the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier Abraham Lincoln Battle Group — at 12:46 Zulu, the exact minute the World Trade Center was struck. In the hours preceding the turnover of the two carrier battle groups on deployment, George Washington paused to reflect on the events of that most horrific day of Sept. 11, 2001.

A special ceremony to remember those who lost their lives on that day, as well as others who were victims of other terrorist actions, was held in the ship’s hangar bay No. 2.

It began with the piping aboard of the official party, parading of the colors and the national anthem; whose words evoked images of American cities under attack in this century and flags raised by New York City firefighters atop smoldering rubble or hung from the crumbled wall of the Pentagon.
 

The words sung today rang truer than ever before and poignantly set the mood for the 5,800 sailors aboard “GW.”
 

One year ago, the first carrier to respond steamed north. George Washington was winding up a routine four-day under way training period in the Atlantic Ocean.
 

Suddenly … unexpectedly … it was ordered to station.
 

With Commander 2nd Fleet, Cruiser Destroyer Group 2 staff and a composite carrier air wing embarked, the carrier steamed at flank speed for New York City to protect the shores and defend the skies of America’s eastern seaboard against further attacks.

The next morning

The next morning, as the sun came up and the carrier steamed within sight of New York City, the plumes of smoke that still billowed from the fallen towers could be seen miles away by those aboard the aircraft carrier.
 

The ceremony’s invocation, delivered by the ship’s chaplain, Cmdr. R. Ableson, brought a calm silence to the hangar bay as each person reflected on the occasion.
 

The sincere and uplifting words of Capt. Marty J. Erdossy, GW’s commanding officer, and Rear Adm. Joseph A. Sestak Jr., commanding officer of the George Washington Battle Group, expressed the feelings of a nation and inspired the sailors who had just spent the last 55 days supporting the global war on terrorism in the Arabian Sea and in the skies over Afghanistan.
 

In the words of Sestak, “… we don’t remember the day of Sept. 11 to just dwell on those we lost, or the horror of what was wrought … rather, we also remember Sept. 11 because it reminds us of who we are, where we are going, and what we are all about in the military: service in the arms of our country against whomever, whatever threatens that which we love — our freedom.”
 

At the conclusion of their remarks, a two-bell ceremony was conducted to honor those who had fallen at the Pentagon, World Trade Center and in the skies above Pennsylvania, as well as the many others orphaned and widowed … the citations were read … crisp hand salutes were rendered … and two bells were struck, each one symbolic in many ways.
 

George Washington and escort units’ six-month deployment began June 20 from Norfolk.
 

With the responsibility to protect our troops on the ground and preclude the movement of terrorists by sea, the George Washington Battle Group prepared to be relieved by the Abraham Lincoln Battle Group in a few hours.
 

Before the ceremony concluded, a wreath was tossed from aircraft elevator two into the seas as a reminder of those who had fallen.
 

A 21-gun salute reverberated in the hangar bay, sharply breaking the magnificent silence — then the playing of “Taps” added to the solemnity of the occasion and reflected back on those who lost their lives. In one final act of grandeur, at exactly 9:45 a.m., the time the Pentagon’s west wall was shattered, a four-plane “missing-man formation” streaked toward George Washington, fully visible to those in the hangar bay and causing a wave of emotion as the “Dash 2” aircraft rocketed up to the heavens. This most impressive commemoration provided George Washington battle group’s sailors with a sense of purpose, reflected the indomitable American spirit and inspired renewed patriotism and pride.
 

In the words of our president, “A terrorist attack designed to tear us apart has instead bound us together as a nation.”

Vigilant Guardia

The VIGILANT GUARDIAN (VG) is a VIGILANT OVERVIEW (VO) Command Post Exercise (CPX) conducted in conjunction with USCINCSTRAT-sponsored GLOBAL GUARDIAN and USCINCSPACE-sponsored APOLLO GUARDIAN exercises. The exercise involves all HQ NORAD levels of command and is designed to exercise most aspects of the NORAD mission. One VG is scheduled each year and the length will vary depending on the exercise scenario and objectives.

Jets_150_miles_over_Atlantic

During the hearing, Dayton told leaders of the Sept. 11 commission, that, based on the commission's report, a NORAD chronology made public a week after the attacks was grossly misleading. The chronology said the FAA notified the military's emergency air command of three of the hijackings while those jetliners were still airborne. Dayton cited commission findings that the FAA failed to inform NORAD about three of the planes until after they had crashed.

And, he said, a squadron of NORAD fighter planes that was scrambled was sent east over the Atlantic Ocean and was 150 miles from Washington, D.C., when the third plane struck the Pentagon -- "farther than they were before they took off."

Dayton said NORAD officials "lied to the American people, they lied to Congress and they lied to your 9/11 commission to create a false impression of competence, communication and protection of the American people." He told Kean and Hamilton that if the commission's report is correct, President Bush "should fire whoever at FAA, at NORAD ... betrayed their public trust by not telling us the truth."