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Gen. Dan Caine remembers 9/11 and getting orders to shoot down planes threatening D.C.

Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Gen. Dan Caine, remembers being an Air Force major on Sep. 11, 2001, and being one of four pilots ordered to shoot down any plane that may threaten Washington, D.C.

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