resident had just been commissioned as 2nd lieutenant after enlisting in the 113rd Maintenance Company in 1989. Summers also learned about the attack from television. "At first, I thought it was an accident, but as I was watching the news, I saw the second plane hit the WTC and knew right there that it was an intentional attack." "I was teaching in class and a fellow teacher told me to turn on the news to see that a plane had hit the World Trade Center," Snyder said. Snyder was at work that morning in Buffalo. William Snyder, the commander of the 152nd Brigade Engineer Battalion, are two of those who responded on 9/11 who still serve. Todd Summers, the surface maintenance manager for the New York National Guard, and Lt. Keyrouze is now a civilian employee of the New York State Division of Military and Naval Affairs - which administers the New York Guard, the state's volunteer defense force - and serves as a colonel in the New York Guard. Today, only 400 are still on duty with the New York National Guard. Over 14,000 New York National Guard Soldiers and Airmen were involved in the 9/11 response, which began Sept. The 174th Fighter Wing had two jets in the air trying to catch the aircraft that eventually crashed in Pennsylvania.īy the end of the day, more than 4,000 Guardsmen were on State Active Duty, with 1,500 in lower Manhattan assisting police.
The Northeast Air Defense Sector, a NORAD command staffed by Guard Airmen, was already working to get fighters in the air and directing them toward the hijacked jetliners. The New York Air National Guard had already responded. Soldiers came into the armory before they could even be called. Thomas Maguire, the adjutant general that day. The New York Army National Guard "went to the sound of the guns," said Maj. When the first and then the second of the Twin Towers were struck by aircraft, New York National Guard Soldiers began responding. "It was just a matter of where and when."īut he said he was still surprised and shocked when it did happen. was vulnerable to a terrorist attack," said Edward Keyrouze, who was then a major in the New York Army National Guard. "Being in the military and serving overseas, I always knew that the U.S. Was Michael Jordan, at age 38, going to come out of retirement and back to the NBA? Was rain going to hamper voter turnout for the primary elections in New York City? Did a lightning strike on the World Trade Center towers the night before do any damage? 11, 2001, were supposed to be about anything other than terrorism. – Three New York National Guard leaders who were part of the state response to 9/11 said the terrorist attacks 20 years ago changed them, the National Guard and the world. More than 14,000 New York National Guard members responded to the attacks. Edward Keyrouze assists at the still smoldering "rubble pile" at Ground Zero following the attack on the World Trade Center towers in New York Sept.
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