Hard to imagine it’s been 23 years already…..!
My job was Aircrew Life Support.
I was an Air Reserve Technician assigned to an AFSOC unit when it happened. The unit put us on Active Duty orders for a week or so then our Presidential Activation Orders came down. We would be activated for 2 consecutive years in the end.
Between 9/11 and when we deployed a week or so into October, it was a flurry of activity. Spent those few weeks getting aircrew trained in Desert Survival, doing Combat…