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ORIGINATING AGENCY.
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MG CLYDE VAUGHN - INTERVIEW 2
voluntarily, sir?
MG VAUGHN: Absolutely.
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work --
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available and wanted the briefing that day, and then the
after the morning brief, I left here and went to the Army-
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in the back of the room and motioned for myself and Lt.
CAT was being stood up, and I told him that I would be
action.
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the top of the hill, you know, somewhere down in there you
think about what a target the Capitol would be. You know,
that's kind of what you think when you come up 395. So,
of, you know, out of sorts. It was - there was only one
kind of bank slowly and head west, and then you're kind of
wondered it that was the plane that circled and come back
bank, and came on back and hit the Pentagon. But the one
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MG CLYDE VAUGHN - INTERVIEW 7
bit.
where from that point you had a real good view of the
Pentagon and the city, ane for those who have come up 395
you know exactly what I'm talking about, it's right on the
weren't very many people that were on the top of the hill.
barely missed the Sheraton and the landing gears was up, I
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question at all.
and I'm just -- I'm not actually sure that I saw it hit
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MG CLYDE VAUGHN - INTERVIEW 9
it hit.
was a hot day, and windows were down, and she was on her
he said that Jerry, my exec, had already gone into the CAT
and they were all in the CAT, opening the CAT up, and I
there's many, many, many people that didn't find out for
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him, put the flashers on, and he and I went right through
it's 27, I've been saying 29, but I believe it's 27, the
one that goes down the west side of the building, right in
We came off the hill, I followed him all the way down
got out, and I pulled up right behind him and told him
said, "Yes, just pull off on the grass right behind that
the Pentagon,
you know, I was looking at where the plane hit and I was
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also kind of noticing, you know, who I'd seen that I knew,
there were some grossly burned people. But they all had
people all over them, and I saw Glenn Webster out on the
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MG CLYDE VAUGHN - INTERVIEW 13
minutes to get off the top of the hill, but it may have
Simply to, you know, make a call from the top of the hill,
to pull down, stop, you know, get the policeman down the
I often I wondered about the people who came out that way,
because that's where the fire was, and that's where the
airplane went in, but there were people that came out of
entrances and went out the direction of the fire, were out
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MG CLYDE VAUGHN - INTERVIEW 14
you take the steps down, and it was open between the 7th
and 8th corridor. And I came in that way and came on down
was there, and what I'd seen happen, and accounted for a
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missing and who was not, and what their impressions were
of all that.
officers, and it's got all the COMs for the senior
the watch, and I took the call. I told him I had seen
him, I knew he was okay, and told him where to come and
I'd get him into the CAT, and then we went out the back
door a little later and met him and brought him on into
the CAT.
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on, and get back in here and try to get, and continue.
workers and everybody else spread out, you know, all over
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here.
time, I think probably from all the Staff, and that was
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on, and don't really have any other place to go and work.
happen.
you're --
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and what not, is in the floor, and there was some concern,
phone calls and the fact that the watch was on line during
that there was, you know, after we got over the initial
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time, to have the fire put out, but I don't recall when we
here --
CAT is the place, and the AOC is the place that people
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same time going on, and it was good to have, again, the
the status, you know, when all the information brief where
together and did what they could for the first three or
but how did you get the woman's phone? Did you get out of
your Explorer or --
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was in uniform, and she said sure, she was still in shock.
research?
that, you know, when its some other place, but we had the
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at one time.
the front end was the fact that we got hit and had to deal
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previously.
back to doing its business plus doing all the daily crisis
easy, and the answers were pretty quick. For those that
get the actual numbers and names of people that were truly
missing.
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you?
phase, and there were lots of, you know, all the various
quickly.
security. And you know, when you deal with war plans and
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And so, when you look at what the Army did, the Army
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the plan is, with the thought that next time around there
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all coming together here it's hard to look back and piece
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