[carolinablonde]

I don't believe there is a fighter wing at McGuire. Looks like there is a mobility (aka transport) wing and a refueling wing.

On a broader note, I always have to wonder what people think the USAF was going to do even if the fighters DID get there in time on 9/11.

Their choices were:
a. shoot the planes down
b. shoot the planes down

Was anybody at 9:00 AM EST on Sept, 11, 2001 ready to accept civilian planes being shot down by an F15?

[TomGuy]

Their choices were:
a. shoot the planes down
b. shoot the planes down

Actually, that is incorrect. The first military jets in the air were unarmed. Thus, their choice was --
a. nudge the plane down or
b. ram it.

What a choice for those brave young men in the pilots' seats -- ram a plane with several dozen innocent passengers or allow that plane to ram into another building filled with innocent people.

[Coleus]

Was anybody at 9:00 AM EST on Sept, 11, 2001 ready to accept civilian planes being shot down by an F15? >>>

No way!

[amutr22]

I am really confused.....why on GMA were they referring to some "admission" that Cheyney and Bush lied about calling up the F16s before the flight 93 went down?? I don't see that anywhere in what I have read??