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It's changed, there's a change in regards to the mission, the stated mission of Our focus was outward .... We've got It's fairly easy to fly into our sector from some place outside the country, Cuba, Bahamas, some place like that It was usually if somethiing ahppened along those lines, it was an oddity, not necessarily viewed Just to maintain the sovereignty of that airspace The defense side was focused on the possibiity of a strategic-type threat People took it seriously but they realized that what it was, but the intensity was not there When it happened, We had actually been tryiig to bring attention to the fact that there was something more than just the traditional strategic threat We'd done some exercise where we looked at some type of airborne, non-piloted type threat Not just cruise missiles, but remote piloted type vehicles We'd really done a lot of exercises along those lines, rogue organizatin terrorist, drug cartels, organized crime, international crime We really believed there was soomething out there other than the stretegic type threat, there's actually been scenarios proposed of something like this happening ... but it did happen and as a result, we're concerned besides the exterior, looking from the outside in, we're concerned aobu thte interior after what happened There's been a lot of controls and things that have taken place to try to mitigate or reduce those risks There's still some possibilities, there's other avenues, other vehicles in which to get aircraft in the air from an internal posture, so we're concerned about that and are trying to get the infrstructure to deal with something in the interior 1 tell people the military - you have people who do all different things - glamour seems to be focused at times at people right there in the thick of it, you see it in the media People like to look at that because when people are in those situations, it's ife or death to them Our people - if we don't do our job, it's not ncessearily so much our lives, but it's the civilians, the very fabric of our society that is at risk out there I feel verry diffenre I'm willing to put my life on the line in support of a principle or an idea, but in this case, we're not putting just our own. but everyoone else's, and I tell our people, you view every single unknown that shows up out there coming in, as a possibility ... we scramble on it until somebody tells us otherwise My concern that it's a military It's not glamorous, to sit out here and Not a glamorous aspect, you'd have to get a very deep, very intense

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Ou'd have to get in there to see, to the depths of what's involved here, people do taek this very seriously, They've been going here since that very day at a very At a tempo "On Sept. 11, there was a big joint exercise going on ... and a few real-world things, but nothing big," Kemp said. "So we had a full battle staff in place because of this exercise. Then somebody says a plane crashed into the World Trade Center. We turned on the news, and the first thing I said was, 'that was a big airplane.' ". "Then 1 said, 'that was not an accident.' " "It was so surreal, if you will, everyone continued to work the exercise and was thriving without structure. We had this training going on and finally someone terminated the exercise. "But amid everything, it was all very methodical and very structured ... it was like the training and proficiency just kicked in. People knew what they had to do."

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