BONUS | What a 9/11 Pilot Will Never Forget (with General Dan Caine)

Welcome to the Daily Stoic Podcast designed to help bring those four key stoic virtues, courage, discipline, justice, and wisdom into the real world. I wanted to start with with 9-11. You know, we've talked to a bunch of interesting leaders, and they've been through some crises and difficulties, but nothing quite like being one of the first planes in the sky on 9-11. So could you maybe walk us through that day and what that was like?

Of course. On September 11th, 2001, I was actually stationed here in Washington, DC, out at Andrews Air Force Base. Um I I was flying F-16s, I I'd been to the Air Forces. top gun school where we don't play much volleyball. We mostly focus on on getting better as tacticians with a a little bit of jest towards my Navy brothers and sisters.

And uh, you know, we had just gotten back as a squadron from out in Las Vegas uh at an Ellis Air Force Base where we were getting ready to deploy. And, you know, that Tuesday here in Washington was a beautiful and gorgeous day. And I was not scheduled to fly that day. I was originally sort of running the flying operation for for the squadron as the chief instructor and tactician. You know, as we came in that morning, we obviously had had no idea what we were going to face.

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