30-08-2011, 11:12 PM
http://www.semissourian.com/story/1757355.html
September 11, 2001, I arrived at Secret Service Headquarters in downtown Washington, DC around 7:45am EDT. I joined several other agents in a conference room for a board meeting. One of the last to arrive announced that a plane had just crashed into the World Trade Center. Across from me sat a lady that was formerly the special agent in charge of the White House. She pointed at me and said "you know all about that". For the rest of the room, I explained, as we gathered up our personal effects, that the Training Center had been crashing planes into the White House since 1998 on a simulation program provided by the military. One of my previous assignments had been to run SIMLAB -- Security Incident Modeling Lab. It was done to test the security responses of the various agencies that interact to provide security and support at the White House. As I finished this brief explanation, it was announced that another plane had crashed into the World Trade Center. The agents knew without stating it that one plane could be an accident, two was an attack. We disbanded and went to various support roles defined by the day's events, known in government circles as The Continuity of Government Plan.
September 11, 2001, I arrived at Secret Service Headquarters in downtown Washington, DC around 7:45am EDT. I joined several other agents in a conference room for a board meeting. One of the last to arrive announced that a plane had just crashed into the World Trade Center. Across from me sat a lady that was formerly the special agent in charge of the White House. She pointed at me and said "you know all about that". For the rest of the room, I explained, as we gathered up our personal effects, that the Training Center had been crashing planes into the White House since 1998 on a simulation program provided by the military. One of my previous assignments had been to run SIMLAB -- Security Incident Modeling Lab. It was done to test the security responses of the various agencies that interact to provide security and support at the White House. As I finished this brief explanation, it was announced that another plane had crashed into the World Trade Center. The agents knew without stating it that one plane could be an accident, two was an attack. We disbanded and went to various support roles defined by the day's events, known in government circles as The Continuity of Government Plan.