The rotor blades of a low flying helicopter beat the Virginia sky with the distinctive thumping sound of Apocalypse Now. Gunfire cracks from all corners of the FBI’s sprawling Quantico Training Academy located south of the nation’s capital in Virginia. Agents of the elite Hostage Rescue Team clad in body armor, helmets, and goggles, […]
Operation Noble Eagle Responds To September 11 Terrorist Attacks
ROBERT RIGGS REPORTS FROM OVER NEW YORK CITY The crisp blue sky over New York City resembled the day that dawned on September 11, 2001 three years earlier. Ground zero could be clearly seen from the cockpit of F-15 fighters circling above Manhattan Island at twenty-three thousand feet. That was my vantage point from the […]
