More than two decades after the September 11 attacks claimed nearly 3,000 lives, the man now serving as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff offers something history books cannot — the memory of a pilot who was already airborne before the smoke had cleared. Then-Major Dan Caine scrambled from Andrews Air Force Base the morning the second tower fell, carrying not doctrine but duty into an uncertain sky. His recollection reminds us that the defense of a nation, in its most urgent moments, is not policy enacted from above but individual human beings choosing to act when the world has not yet tol
JCS Chairman Caine Recalls Flying Combat Mission on 9/11
The 9/11 attacks killed nearly 3,000 people in New York, Washington D.C., and Pennsylvania.