Patrick D. McCaslin Interview, 25 February 2001
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| INT: | And this guy would be Strategic Missile Wing? Is that correct? | |
| PM: | No. The Missile Wing and the Bomb Wing were both under the Air Division. He was the boss of both the Missile Wing Commander and the— | |
| INT: | Oh, this was the guy— | |
| PM: | Yeah, went Brigadier General. The Missile Wing Commander, I presume, was a Colonel. I don't remember. But the Bomb Wing Commander was a Colonel, and then these two guys would report to him. | |
| INT: | Okay. | |
| PM: | And presumably the helicopters that supported the Missile Wing and, you know, virtually everything on that base belonged to him. | |
| INT: | Well, I wanted to keep plugging you for memories of that debriefing. Do you remember other topics of discussion? | |
| PM: | No, not really. I remember he volunteered the information about the Air Policemen. He volunteered the information about the missile alarms going off. I'm sure he talked about other things, I just don't remember. I just—those are the things that stick in my mind. | |
| INT: | Now, you have this recall of the object apparently coming down over the top of the security vehicle, right? | |
| PM: | Yeah. I'll just give you, you know, just the way I remember it. My memory is that General Holland said that there were two—and he, you know, he was saying it like he was very sympathetic toward these two Air Policemen. You know, like, imagine being in this position—that at the time, our aircraft did the low approach, he said there were two poor Air Policemen out there with this thing hovering, or something hovering over their—directly over their pickup truck. I think he said they were responding to one of the missiles—the alerts that had gone on in the missile— | |
| INT: | Alarms? | |
| PM: | Yeah. And there may have been more that responded, but they were either the team—the Air Policemen responding, or one of the crews of Air Policemen responding and that this thing was directly over their vehicle. | |
| INT: | Did it damage the vehicle in any way? |
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