Terrorist Attacks

Original caption: As Dan Bartlett, Deputy Assistant to the President, points to news footage of the World Trade Center, President George W. Bush gathers information about the terrorist attack from a classroom a More

A highway sign reads, "All Crossings to New York Closed" Tuesday, Sept. 11, 2001. Photo by Paul Morse, Courtesy of the George W. Bush Presidential Library

Original Caption: As Dan Bartlett, Deputy Assistant to the President, points to news footage of the World Trade Center, President George W. Bush gathers information about the terrorist attack from a classroom a More

Original Caption: President George W. Bush watches television coverage of the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center Tuesday, Sept. 11, 2001, from his office aboard Air Force One. ..U.S. National Archives More

Original Caption: President George W. Bush delivers remarks on the terrorist attacks Tuesday, Sept. 11, 2001, from Barksdale Air Force Base in Louisiana, before departing for Offutt Air Force Base in Nebraska. More

Sailors aboard the aircraft carrier USS Nimitz bow their heads during a memorial service in honor of the victims of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. Nimitz is underway in the U.S. 3rd Fleet area of responsibility.

A remembrance ceremony for the 10 year anniversary of Sept. 11 will be held at the Air Force Ceremonial Lawn at 8 a.m., Sunday, Sept. 11, at Joint Base Anacostia-Bolling, Washington D.C. (U.S. Air Force graphic More

Mayor of Washington D.C., Vincent Gray, speaks at a Sept. 11 Remembrance Ceremony held at Leckie Elementary School in D.C., Sept. 9. The ceremony honored the lives lost on the day of the attacks, including the More

“26 MEU”, is inscribed on a steel plate at the Center for National Response (CNR) in Gallagher, W. Va., Oct. 25, 2012. Marines and sailors assigned to the Chemical, Biological, Radiological and Nuclear (CBRN), More

Marines and sailors assigned to Chemical, Biological, Radiological and Nuclear (CBRN), Assessment and Consequence Management (ACM) team, 26th Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU), stand outside the Center for Nation More

Tina Bryant, a firefighter with the Marine Corps Base Quantico, Va., Fire Department, demonstrates how her unit uses the enterprise-land mobile radio Aug. 27. Quantico completed its upgrade to the first-respond More

The alumni adjunct professors are (from left): Uganda People’s Defense Forces Col. Tingira Omero Irumba; Dina Al Raffie, research fellow with the George Washington Center for Homeland and Cyber Security’s Progr More

Sgt. Davion Sherald, a Hemingway, South Carolina native and command driver for the 69th Air Defense Artillery Brigade, and 1st Sgt. Jasmine Zanders, a Detroit, Michigan native and first sergeant for Headquarter More

U.S. Marines, Sailors and DoD personnel participate in exercise Vigilant Response 2017, Marine Corps Air Station New River, N.C., Nov. 7, 2017. VR17 is a two-day exercise designed to test the ability to conduct More

U. S. Coast Guard Air Station Borinquen officers and chiefs gathered with U. S. Customs and Border Protection Ramey Sector Border Patrol agents and Ramey School students at the school flagpole Sept. 11, 2018 in More

U.S. Air Force Senior Airman Megan Biggers, 31st Medical Operations Squadron medic, places a helmet on a table for the Emergency Service Prayer during a 9/11 remembrance ceremony, Sept. 11, 2019, at Aviano Air More

An airman from the 31st Security Forces Squadron places a helmet on a table as part of an Emergency Service Prayer during a 9/11 remembrance ceremony, Sept. 11, 2019, at Aviano Air Base, Italy. The prayer and p More

A woman cries during a Sept. 11 Remembrance Ceremony held at Leckie Elementary School in Washington D.C., Sept. 9. The ceremony honored the lives lost on the day of the attacks, including the parents, teachers, More

Lance Cpl. Devon Hughes, a Chemical, Biological, Radiological and Nuclear (CBRN) defense specialist, Assessment and Consequence Management (ACM) team, 26th Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU), wraps chemical protec More

Marines and sailors assigned to Chemical, Biological, Radiological and Nuclear (CBRN), Assessment and Consequence Management (ACM) team, 26th Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU), fall into formation for an award ce More

Dina Al Raffie, research fellow at the George Washington Center for Homeland and Cyber Security’s Program on Extremism, presents Al-Qaeda: Irrelevant or on the Rebound March 7 to 75 participants from 45 countri More

Col. Richard Harrison, an Elizabethtown, North Carolina native and commander of the 69th Air Defense Artillery Brigade, performed 11 pushups, which represented the day of the 2001 terrorist attacks, Sept. 11, 2 More

Crash fire rescue personnel with Marine Corps Air Station New River’s Aircraft Rescue Firefighting Division, simulated putting out a fire during exercise Vigilant Response 2017, MCAS New River, N.C., Nov. 7, 20 More

U. S. Coast Guard Air Station Borinquen officers and chiefs gathered with U. S. Customs and Border Protection Ramey Sector Border Patrol agents and Ramey School students at the school flagpole Sept. 11, 2018, i More

Firefighters, security forces airmen and medics from the 31st Fighter Wing stand in formation as one flight during a 9/11 remembrance ceremony, Sept. 11, 2019, at Aviano Air Base, Italy. The ceremony honored al More

Firefighters, security forces and medics from the 31st Fighter Wing stand as one flight during a 9/11 remembrance ceremony, Sept. 11, 2019, at Aviano Air Base, Italy. The ceremony honored all first responders a More

Children pledge to not discriminate and treat others equally during a Sept. 11 Remembrance Ceremony held at Leckie Elementary School in Washington D.C., Sept. 9. The ceremony honored the lives lost on the day o More

Maj. Gen. Melvin Spiese, commanding general of I Marine Expeditionary Brigade, delivers keynote remarks during a 9-11 commemoration at the Richard Nixon Library and Museum in Orange County, Calif. Sept. 11. The More

Lance Cpl. Devon Hughes, a Chemical, Biological, Radiological and Nuclear (CBRN) defense specialist, Assessment and Consequence Management (ACM) team, 26th Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU), dons a M50 Joint Serv More

Marines and sailors assigned to Chemical, Biological, Radiological and Nuclear (CBRN), Assessment and Consequence Management (ACM) team, 26th Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU), stand in formation during an award More

Capt. Bauyrzhan Yermegiyayev, deputy prosecutor for the General Prosecutor’s Office in Kazakhstan tries on a helmet during a field study trip to the Munich SWAT team as part of the four-week George C. Marshall More

Sgt.1st Class Ana Bartels, a Palm Springs, California native and communications noncommissioned officer in charge with the 69th Air Defense Artillery Brigade, performs the box-jump portion of the September 11th More

A U.S. Marine acting as a role player, simulates a casualty during exercise Vigilant Response 2017, Marine Corps Air Station New River, N.C., Nov. 7, 2017. VR17 is a two-day exercise designed to test the abilit More

U.S. Air Force Senior Master Sgt. Essam Cordova, 31st Civil Engineer Squadron deputy fire chief, speaks during a 9/11 remembrance ceremony, Sept. 11, 2019, at Aviano Air Base, Italy. Cordova, the keynote speake More

A tree is planted during a Sept. 11 Remembrance Ceremony held at Leckie Elementary School in Washington D.C., Sept. 9. The ceremony honored the lives lost on the day of the attacks, including the parents, teach More

Marines assist Lance Cpl. Devon Hughes, a Chemical, Biological, Radiological and Nuclear (CBRN) defense specialist, Assessment and Consequence Management (ACM) team, 26th Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU), by wra More

Marines and sailors assigned to Chemical, Biological, Radiological and Nuclear (CBRN), Assessment and Consequence Management (ACM) team, 26th Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU), stand in formation during an award More

U.S. Marine Col. (Ret.) James Howcroft, course director of the George C. Marshall European Center for Security Studies’ Program in Terrorism and Security Studies, talks about the Intelligence Role in Combating More

Sgt. Michael Spoor, a Houston, Texas native and Intelligence noncommissioned officer in charge with the 69th Air Defense Artillery Brigade, completes the 343 meter sandbag carry during the September 11th Memori More

A U.S. Marine acts as a simulated casualty during exercise Vigilant Response 2017, Marine Corps Air Station New River, N.C., Nov. 7, 2017. VR17 is a two-day exercise designed to test the ability to conduct comm More

An Airman from the 31st Fighter Wing rings the Last Alarm during a 9/11 remembrance ceremony, Sept. 11, 2019, at Aviano Air Base, Italy. The Last Alarm is a fire service custom dating back to the mid-1800s. The More

Children's handprints line the sidewalks of a Sept. 11 memorial garden outside of Leckie Elementary School in Washington D.C. The garden honors the lives lost on the day of the attacks, including the parents, t More

Bruce Brown, firefighter with the Orange County Fire Authority, rings the bell for the "Final Alarm" during a 9-11 commemoration at the Richard Nixon Library and Museum in Orange County, Calif. Sept. 11. The Ri More

Col. Matthew St. Clair, 26th Marine Expeditionary Unit commanding officer, dons a Self-Contained Breathing Apparatus (SCBA) used by the 26th MEU’s Chemical, Biological, Radiological and Nuclear (CBRN), Assessme More

Marines and sailors assigned to Chemical, Biological, Radiological and Nuclear (CBRN), Assessment and Consequence Management (ACM) team, 26th Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU), present a thank you plaque to the i More

Capt. Martha Esteban, an Indiantown, Florida native and commander of the Headquarters and Headquarters Battery, 69th Air Defense Artillery Brigade, completes her last pull up of the September 11th Memorial Cros More

U.S. Marines with Provost Marshal’s Office, Marine Corps Air Station New River New River, assist a causality during exercise Vigilant Response 2017, MCAS New River, N.C., Nov. 7, 2017. VR17 is a two-day exercis More

Airmen and military working dogs from the 31st Security Forces MWD unit participate in the 9/11 memorial ruck march and run, Sept. 11, 2019, at Aviano Air Base, Italy. Ruckers and runners tackled 9 to 11 kilome More

Vincent Gray, mayor of Washington D.C., high fives students before a Sept. 11 Remembrance ceremony held at Leckie Elementary School in D.C., Sept. 9. The ceremony honored the lives lost on the day of the attack More

Greg Horgan, bagpiper and firefighter apparatus engineer with the Orange County Fire Authority, plays "Amazing Grace" during a 9-11 commemoration at the Richard Nixon Library and Museum in Orange County, Calif. More

Marines and sailors assigned to Chemical, Biological, Radiological and Nuclear (CBRN), Assessment and Consequence Management (ACM) team, 26th Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU), receive a brief from Staff Sgt. Rob More

Chief Warrant Officer 4 Christopher Joy, Chemical, Biological, Radiological and Nuclear (CBRN) officer , Assessment and Consequence Management (ACM) team, 26th Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU), presents a thank More

Soldiers of the 69th Air Defense Artillery Brigade finish the September 11th Memorial CrossFit workout, Sept. 11, 2016 at Al Udeid Air Base, Qatar. Deployed Soldiers and Airmen participated in the workout to co More

U.S. Marines with Provost Marshal’s Office, Marine Corps Air Station New River New River, assist a simulated casualty and her baby during exercise Vigilant Response 2017, MCAS New River, N.C., Nov. 7, 2017. VR1 More

Airmen from the 31st Fighter Wing bow their heads in prayer before a 9/11 memorial ruck march and run, Sept. 11, 2019, at Aviano Air Base, Italy. Ruckers and runners tackled 9 to 11 kilometers of terrain on bas More

The colors are presented during a Sept. 11 Remembrance Ceremony at Leckie Elementary School in Washington D.C., Sept. 9. The ceremony honored the lives lost on the day of the attacks, including the parents, tea More

A Marine assigned to Chemical, Biological, Radiological and Nuclear (CBRN), Assessment and Consequence Management (ACM) team, 26th Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU), investigates and takes samples from a simulate More

Soldiers with the 69th Air Defense Artillery Brigade and Airmen from the 379th Air Expeditionary Wing participated in a CrossFit workout designed to honor the lives impacted during the September 11, 2001 terror More

Crash fire rescue personnel with Marine Corps Air Station New River’s Aircraft Rescue Firefighting Division, simulate evacuating an aircraft during exercise Vigilant Response 2017, MCAS New River, N.C., Nov. 7, More

Airmen from the 31st Fighter Wing begin the 9/11 memorial ruck march and run, Sept. 11, 2019, at Aviano Air Base, Italy. Ruckers and runners tackled 9 to 11 kilometers of terrain on base in remembrance of those More

A woman puts her hand over her heart while wearing a shirt honoring a victim of the Sept. 11 attacks during a Remembrance Ceremony at Leckie Elementary School in Washington D.C., Sept. 9. The ceremony honored t More

A Marine assigned to Chemical, Biological, Radiological and Nuclear (CBRN), Assessment and Consequence Management (ACM) team, 26th Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU), investigates and takes samples from a simulate More

Chief Warrant Officer 4 Christopher Joy, Chemical, Biological, Radiological and Nuclear (CBRN) officer , Assessment and Consequence Management (ACM) team, 26th Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU), presents a thank More

Crash fire rescue personnel with Marine Corps Air Station New River’s Aircraft Rescue Firefighting Division, simulate evacuating an aircraft during an exercise Vigilant Response 2017, MCAS New River, N.C., Nov. More

Marines assigned to Chemical, Biological, Radiological and Nuclear (CBRN), Assessment and Consequence Management (ACM) team, 26th Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU), investigate and take samples from a simulated l More

Chief Warrant Officer 2 Scott Myhra, Chemical, Biological, Radiological and Nuclear (CBRN) officer , Assessment and Consequence Management (ACM) team, 26th Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU), presents a 26th MEU c More

Crash fire rescue personnel with Marine Corps Air Station (MCAS) New River’s Aircraft Rescue Firefighting Division, assist a simulated causality during an exercise Vigilant Response 2017 (VR17), MCAS New River, More

Marines assigned to Chemical, Biological, Radiological and Nuclear (CBRN), Assessment and Consequence Management (ACM) team, 26th Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU), investigate and take samples from a simulated l More

Chief Warrant Officer 2 Scott Myhra, Chemical, Biological, Radiological and Nuclear (CBRN) officer , Assessment and Consequence Management (ACM) team, 26th Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU), presents a 26th MEU c More

U.S. Marines, Sailors and DoD personnel participate in exercise Vigilant Response 2017 (VR17), Marine Corps Air Station New River, N.C., Nov. 7, 2017. VR17 is a two-day exercise designed to test the ability to More

Marines assigned to Chemical, Biological, Radiological and Nuclear (CBRN), Assessment and Consequence Management (ACM) team, 26th Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU), investigate and take samples from a simulated l More

Chief Warrant Officer 2 Scott Myhra, Chemical, Biological, Radiological and Nuclear (CBRN) officer , Assessment and Consequence Management (ACM) team, 26th Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU), presents a 26th MEU c More

U.S. Marines, Sailors and DoD personnel participate in exercise Vigilant Response 2017, Marine Corps Air Station New River, N.C., Nov. 7, 2017. VR17 is a two-day exercise designed to test the ability to conduct More

Chief Warrant Officer 2 Scott Myhra, Chemical, Biological, Radiological and Nuclear (CBRN) Officer, Assessment and Consequence Management (ACM) team, 26th Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU), takes notes on the per More

Chief Warrant Officer 2 Scott Myhra, Chemical, Biological, Radiological and Nuclear (CBRN) officer , Assessment and Consequence Management (ACM) team, 26th Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU), presents a 26th MEU c More

U.S. Marines, Sailors and DoD personnel participate in exercise Vigilant Response 2017, Marine Corps Air Station New River, N.C., Nov. 7, 2017. VR17 is a two-day exercise designed to test the ability to conduct More

A Marine assigned to Chemical, Biological, Radiological and Nuclear (CBRN), Assessment and Consequence Management (ACM) team, 26th Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU), exits a cave after investigating and taking sa More

Col. Matthew St. Clair, 26th Marine Expeditionary Unit commanding officer shakes the hand of an instructor at the Center for National Response (CNR) in Gallagher, W. Va., Oct. 25, 2012. The Marines and sailors More

A U.S. Marine, simulated casualty is loaded onto a stretcher during exercise Vigilant Response 2017, Marine Corps Air Station New River, N.C., Nov. 7, 2017. VR17 is a two-day exercise designed to test the abili More

A Marine assigned to Chemical, Biological, Radiological and Nuclear (CBRN), Assessment and Consequence Management (ACM) team, 26th Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU), clears the fog off his nuclear, biological, ch More

A U.S. Marine, center, simulated casualty, is loaded onto a stretcher during exercise Vigilant Response 2017, Marine Corps Air Station New River, N.C., Nov. 7, 2017. VR17 is a two-day exercise designed to test More

A Marine assigned to Chemical, Biological, Radiological and Nuclear (CBRN), Assessment and Consequence Management (ACM) team, 26th Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU), investigate a simulated chemical lab for hazar More

Paramedics with Onslow County Emergency Medical Services, load a simulated causality into an ambulance during exercise Vigilant Response 2017, Marine Corps Air Station New River, N.C., Nov. 7, 2017. VR17 is a t More

A Marine assigned to Chemical, Biological, Radiological and Nuclear (CBRN), Assessment and Consequence Management (ACM) team, 26th Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU), identifies simulated hazards in the air of a c More

U.S. Navy Lt. Cmdr. Raynard Allen, chaplain, Headquarters and Headquarters Squadron, prays with simulated causalities during an exercise Vigilant Response 2017, Marine Corps Air Station New River, N.C., Nov. 7, More

U.S. Marines, Sailors, and DoD participate in exercise Vigilant Response 2017, Marine Corps Air Station New River, N.C., Nov. 7, 2017. VR17 is a two-day exercise designed to test the ability to conduct command More

U.S. Marines, Sailors, and DoD participate in exercise Vigilant Response 2017, Marine Corps Air Station New River, N.C., Nov. 7, 2017. VR17 is a two-day exercise designed to test the ability to conduct command More

U.S. Marines, Sailors, and DoD participate in exercise Vigilant Response 2017, Marine Corps Air Station New River, N.C., Nov. 7, 2017. VR17 is a two-day exercise designed to test the ability to conduct command More

U.S. Marines, Sailors, and DoD participate in exercise Vigilant Response 2017, Marine Corps Air Station New River, N.C., Nov. 7, 2017. VR17 is a two-day exercise designed to test the ability to conduct command More

U.S. Marines, Sailors, and DoD participate in exercise Vigilant Response 2017, Marine Corps Air Station New River, N.C., Nov. 7, 2017. VR17 is a two-day exercise designed to test the ability to conduct command More

Members of the New Jersey National Guard Color Guard, left to right, Sgt. 1st Class Louis Tuck, Senior Airman Dominoe Strong, Senior Airman Sally Pizzo and Staff Sgt. Jerone Scott practice prior to the dedicati More

Members of the New Jersey National Guard Color Guard practice prior to the dedication ceremony for New Jersey Empty Sky Memorial at Liberty State Park, Jersey City, N.J., Sept. 10. The memorial is dedicated to More