I will never forget that day. Okinawa, stationed on Camp Hansen. We were in the middle of TC-1E and I slept in since the base was locked down. Turned on the TV to see the videos of the planes hitting the buildings and wondered what movie this was. Then the phone call from my Colonel.."Get to base NOW." Drove through the howling winds and they opened the gates for us to come in. When we got done setting up the base, the folks at Camp Foster that came up called it "Fortress Hansen". We had machine gun nests at each of the three gates, we improvised serpentine obstacles out of quadcons, we had the UDP battalion on gate guard. The gates were rotated as to which one was open for incoming and which one was outgoing daily. We had traffic jams from the express way exit in Yaka all the way to Kinville.
Spent 5 days straight on base before seeing my family again. The world changed that day.
I will never forget that day. Okinawa, stationed on Camp Hansen. We were in the middle of TC-1E and I slept in since the base was locked down. Turned on the TV to see the videos of the planes hitting the buildings and wondered what movie this was. Then the phone call from my Colonel.."Get to base NOW." Drove through the howling winds and they opened the gates for us to come in. When we got done setting up the base, the folks at Camp Foster that came up called it "Fortress Hansen". We had machine gun nests at each of the three gates, we improvised serpentine obstacles out of quadcons, we had the UDP battalion on gate guard. The gates were rotated as to which one was open for incoming and which one was outgoing daily. We had traffic jams from the express way exit in Yaka all the way to Kinville.
Spent 5 days straight on base before seeing my family again. The world changed that day.