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🗓️ 6 September 2017
⏱️ 33 minutes
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0:00.0 | When the second plane went in, I remember saying this is obviously an attack and the next attack |
0:13.0 | is going to be on some command and control facility. |
0:19.0 | I remember standing there looking at the Pentagon saying, life as we know it will never be the same. |
0:30.4 | Hey, welcome back to another episode of The Spear, a podcast by the Modern War Institute at West Point. |
0:36.3 | I'm John Amble, editorial director at MWI, and The Spear is our platform to explore the combat experience. |
0:43.0 | Each episode includes a single one-on-one interview with a guest who walks us through a particular event and their role in it. |
0:49.0 | A battle, a firefight, a mission. |
0:51.6 | It's a first-person account of combat. |
0:54.1 | This episode is a little bit different |
0:56.4 | than our previous ones in one important way. The story we're featuring didn't take place in a |
1:01.4 | combat zone, and yet much of it, the chaos, the uncertainty, the importance of individual initiative, |
1:07.2 | and more. Echoes themes we've heard in previous episodes. |
1:11.6 | On September 11th, 2001, Lieutenant General Robert Castlen was a colonel assigned to the Pentagon. |
1:17.6 | Today he's the superintendent of the United States Military Academy at West Point, |
1:21.6 | and I had a chance to talk to him about what it was like to be there on the day the plane hit the building, signaling really a |
1:28.8 | dramatically new era for the U.S. military. |
1:32.1 | A couple notes before the conversation. |
1:34.5 | First, remember that you can follow MWI on Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn to stay updated |
1:39.1 | on everything we're doing, and check out the MWI website at MWI.usma.edu to see new articles, podcasts, research, |
1:47.7 | and more. And also, as always, what you're about to hear are the views of the participants |
1:52.4 | and don't represent the position of West Point, the Army, or the U.S. government. |
1:57.3 | All right, let's get to the conversation. |
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