From: "Mark" 


"Monte Davis"  wrote: ... Within a
few days of 9/11, I realized there were souls out there who
> simply assumed the US must have hundreds of fighters on hot alert all
> over the country. We certainly could within a day or so of an
> appropriate DEFCON -- and the baseline has been raised significantly
> since 9/11, as have "red phone" procedures between NORAD and civilian
> ATC.  But apparently these folks think it's been that way nonstop
> since... what? 1950? GMAFB.

I never figured we were on "hot alert" at all times, but there
were numerous jets (as well as helicopters) flying up and down the Jersey
Shore starting shortly after the 2nd plane hit the WTC and continuing all
day long and to a lesser degree for weeks following.

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