So, in reality, I had all the guys up into the NORAD Battle Management Center that I needed to conduct the exercise as well as the contingency operations that happened on 9/11. The lucky part was that these are the same folks that we would bring up in case of contingencies or in time of going to war. What that means to us is all the folks in Building 1470 at the time, all the directorates such as Operations, Logistics, Security, all those folks were up in the Mountain on an exercise posture. We were lucky from the fact that we were in the middle of a NORAD-wide exercise, and that NORAD-wide exercise had been going on since the Thursday prior. Can you talk about why that was?Ī: When people ask me that question, I say, “We were lucky,” you know, and I get this funny look. Q: Now by what could be called a stroke of luck, everyone you would need to be in the Mountain on 9/11 was already there the morning of 9/11. I was in charge of the Air Warning Center, which had five crews, and so my job was to maintain the standardization of operations for the NORAD Ops Center. I worked up at Cheyenne Mountain Operations Center. On 9/11, my job was Chief, Air Defense Operations. Whenever the general officers here in the building provide guidance on how the crews need to operate, I transfer that guidance into checklists and TTPs and that sort of thing so that the crews understand how we need to operate. Q: Tell us a little about your job here at NORAD and USNORTHCOM.Ī: My job now is to look after the NORAD equities and the N2C2, the NORAD and NORTHCOM Command Center. He sat down with NORAD and USNORTHCOM Public Affairs to talk about his experiences on the day of the attacks. 11, 2001, he was an Air Force lieutenant colonel in charge of NORAD Air Defense Operations and was in the Cheyenne Mountain operations center on that day. William Glover is currently the N2C2 Operations Support Director for the North American Aerospace Defense Command at Peterson Air Force Base, Colo.
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