MASTER Sergeant (MSGT) Steven Taylor, USAF, kneels down to shoot photos of Shaw Air Force Base maintenance personnel working on an F-16CJ Fighting Falcon late into the night of 11 September 2001. MSGT Taylor, a base photographer is documenting the steps taken at the base in response to the terrorist attacks against the US earlier in the day. The jet, once repaired, will be launched, if needed, to defend the United States against any unknown aircraft entering US airspace. The base is now operating in Force Protection Condition Delta (FP CON Delta) in response to terrorist attacks on the World Trade Centers Twin Towers in New York and at the Pentagon that morning, 11 September 2001