Presented By: Lieutenant Colonel Mario Costagliola

2. Presented By: Lieutenant Colonel Mario Costagliola

4. Diagram Of Attack

5. Transportation • system shuts • down • Communication • paralyzed • 101st Cavalry • alert and • assembly

6. NYC Office of • Emergency • Management • destroyed • NYPD/FDNY • Incident • Command • Post • destroyed Special Operations Command FDNY Truck

7. All 5 FDNY • Rescue • Companies • destroyed • Urgent calls • for medical • assistance FDNY Engine 210

8. Telephonic alert • impossible • Soldiers began to • report without • notification • -By 10:00, 100 soldiers • -By 18:00, 300 soldiers • -By 21:00, 428 soldiers • (between Staten Island • and Troy)

9. Specialized • equipment • required • Armory security • -Situation unclear • -Further attacks • expected Staten Island Armory

10. Casualty Collection Point (Baseball Stadium) • Situation 11SEP • 14:30 • -Medical • personnel and • equipment • dispatched to • CCP • -Armory defense • plan activated 101 Temporary Morgue (Ice Skating Rink) Staten Island

11. -Units • consolidating • HHC/A/D Staten • Island, B/C Troy • Equipping of • troops • -Military • -Home Depot C Co, 101 Cav

12. Medical team • diverted from • baseball stadium • to ground zero via • ferry • Aid station and • morgue established • 1 Liberty Plaza by • 101st Cavalry

13. Advance team • calls for • generators and • respirators at • Ground Zero

14. 18:00 second • team medical • personnel and • generators • dispatched to • Ground Zero • Communication • established with • BG Klein – first • higher HQ • contact

15. Armory security • plan • -Entrances blocked • with armored • vehicles • -Armed perimeter • established • -Strict access • control measures • implemented Staten Island Armory Rooftop

16. Prep for deployment • -Weapons issued & • mounted • -Nuclear Biological • and Chemical • protective • equipment issued 101 Cav Convoy

17. -Civilian rescue equipment issued • -Vehicles prepped and loaded for move to Manhattan • 20:00, September 11, contact established with • 1-69 INF CDR, LTC Slack B Co CDR, 101 Cav with FDNY

18. September 12, • 05:00 main • convoy departs • armory: 87 • vehicles • 06:00 troops • deployed on east • perimeter of • Ground Zero • Linkup with • NYPD, FDNY, • 1-69th INF, • and 1-258 FA 101 Cav Convoy

19. Command link established with BG Klein 53rd Troop Cmd • Mission: Establish Lower Manhattan Frozen Zone and • assist rescue and recovery • 101st Cavalry aid station converted to field morgue Daily News photograph, September 13, 2001 issue

20. SCT 101 MORT 101 69 101 A 101 101 D 101 12SEP C 101 B 101

21. SCT 101 MORT 101 69 101 A 101 101 D 101 13SEP C 101 B 101

22. 13SEP: Ground Zero • Situation • -Emergency • responders and • civilian • contractors • converge on • Ground Zero • -No central • Command • and Control 101 Cav Soldier, Ground Zero

23. Mission • -101st Cavalry • moves in to clear • personnel, restrict • access, and • facilitate • synchronized • coordination 101 Cav convoy, looking over 50 caliber machine gun

24. Satellite photograph SCT 101 MORT 101 69 101 A 101 101 D 101 13SEP C 101 B 101

25. Screen line • Ground Zero • Morgue • Remains • recovery • Fuel support • (FDNY) • Power • generation 14SEP MISSIONS x 53 TC Lower Manhattan Park Ave Armory - 101 FLD Staten Island

26. Soldier/Leader Challenges • Physical/mental • exhaustion • Physical hazards • and danger • Feeling of • isolation • Trauma from • death and • destruction B Co, 101 Cav, Battery Park

27. Soldier/Leader Challenges • Personal loss • Family separation • Frustration at lack of survivors • Anger 101 Cav Soldiers, Ground Zero

28. 16 – 23SEP Missions • Security checkpoints • Roving patrols • Rooftop searches • Civilian escort • Logistic support to civil authorities • Transition to 24 hour operations • Relief in place 22 – 23SEP 101 Cav Soldiers, Bowling Green, at a security checkpoint

29. Soldiers/units must be prepared • for mobilization without warning • -Individual soldier load plan • -Soldier personal • affairs • -Weapons • qualification • -Chemical • protective mask • fitting • -Physical fitness • -Individual soldier • skill proficiency Lessons Learned B Co, 101 Cav, Battery Park

30. Unit readiness for • Homeland Defense • -Vehicle readiness • -Ammunition • pre-stocks • -Nuclear Biological • and Chemical • equipment • -Junior leader • development • -Contingency stock • -Fuel • -Rations Lessons Learned Armor, Battery Park

31. -Cell phones and radios • -Local maps • -Rescue equipment • Liaison/interface with civil authorities NY Post photo shows Soldier checking ID

32. November 1, 2001 90 Day Activation • First large scale • New York • State activation • ever • TF Wingfoot 600 • soldiers: • -101st Cav • -442 MPs B Co, 101 Cav Soldier, Queens Midtown Tunnel

33. November 1, 2001 90 Day Activation • Mission: provide security for NYC infrastructure • -Bridges • -Tunnels • -Train stations • -Ground Zero

34. Midtown Manhattan Posts Grand Central 20 MPs Midtown Tunnel 18 Soldiers Penn Station 20 MPs 59th St. Bridge 18 Soldiers

35. Southern Manhattan Posts Manhattan Bridge 06:00-10:00 Mon-Fri 13 Soldiers WTC (The Zone) 33 Soldiers Williamsburg Bridge 15 Soldiers Brooklyn Bridge 07:00–11:00 4 Soldiers

36. B Company Soldiers, 101st Cavalry Time Magazine, Oct 1, 2001 Issue

37. Rabbi Goldstein performing religious services at Ground Zero, NY Times, September 19, 2001 issue

38. 101 Cav Soldiers patrolling Ground Zero, Times Union (Albany, NY Newspaper) September 17, 2001 issue

39. Time Magazine, November 12, 2001

40. Soldiers checking IDs, Wall Street, NY Times, September 18, 2001 issue

41. Slideshow produced by: Second Lieutenant Mark J Walsh Platoon Leader Bravo Company 101st Cavalry New York Army National Guard 2002 E-mail:Mark.J.Walsh@us.army.mil