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Re: World Trade Center attack

  • From: John Fraizer
  • Date: Tue Sep 11 23:25:48 2001

DFAS, DCSC, Wright Patterson, and all of the other installations I'm
familiar with in the Central Ohio area are at ThreatCon Delta.


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John Fraizer
EnterZone, Inc


On Tue, 11 Sep 2001, Marshall Eubanks wrote:

> 
> >
> >On Tue, Sep 11, 2001 at 10:46:24AM -0700, Ulf Zimmermann wrote:
> >> 
> >> The USA is currently in state Delta, highest alertness state as if War has
> 
> >> been declared. (Based on report on Fox News in the last 5 minutes)
> >
> 
> ThreatCon Delta (how its called in the Navy at least)
> means that your base is either under attack, or an
> attack is likely.
> 
> This has nothing directly to do with DEFCON's - which
> relate to readiness for war, not local attack.
> 
> I heard that all bases in the DC area are in 
> ThreatCon Delta.
> 
> Regards
> Marshall Eubanks
> 
> >Correct.  FP (Force Protection) Condition Delta is the highest alert.
> >Though I've heard it's only the US East coast posts that are at Delta;
> >I've had reports that most overseas bases are at Charlie.  FPCon is a
> >localized alert state and will vary by location.
> >
> >DEFCON 2 has been reached, I believe.
> >
> >DEFCON 1 does not necessarily equate automatically to war, however.  It
> >is merely the maximum level of force readiness.
> >
> >-- 
> >Mark C. Langston
> >[email protected]
> >Systems & Network Admin
> >http://www.bitshift.org
> >
> >
> 
> Marshall Eubanks
> 
> [email protected]
>