On the morning of9/11, he was serving at Andrews Air Force Base near Washington, DC. Though he wasn’t initially scheduled to fly that day, he ultimately becamethe mission commander over the capital, armed with air-to-air missileson alert for threats to the nation, he recalled in an interview with “The Afterburn Podcast” several weeks ago.
In remarks at the Conservative Political Action Conference in 2019, the president described Caine as being out of“central casting”and recalled that Caine told him when they met in Iraq that the US could have the campaign against ISIS “totally finished in one week.”
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