Written on Wednesday, April 24, 2013 by Sean Aland
Before I retired from the Air Force, my unit was Homeland Security before DHS existed. We were the Air Defense for the United States before and on 9-11, trained and ready to defend against any threat approaching or encroaching on our borders. President Clinton, many politicians, and senior military said that we would never be attacked by air. Even after a friend and I prepared a brief for our general stating we would be attacked by an air breathing threat masterminded by Osama Bin Laden, the DC and headquarters experts stated we were justifying our existence. These same experts were first in line to ask what they could do to support us after the 9-11 attacks. Many went to work to provide the best defensive war plan for our nation, as none existed for the US as an Area of Responsibility(AOR). The world’s experts for dealing with terrorist attacks, Israel, were consulted to see what to do to combat this new threat in the US. After much planning they basically told us that we would never be successful in combating terrorism because we want to spend too much time looking for weapons instead of looking for terrorists. Looking for terrorist requires profiling, which we would not do. What did that get us, TSA procedures and quotas for old, young and other than arab or minority screening. Procedures have improved but not to where they need to be. …To Read More…
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