Airman 1st Class Thomas Messick of the 514th Security Forces Squadron, McGuire Air Force Base, N.J., guards the McGuire flightline on Sept. 11, 2001, in response to the terrorist attacks at the Pentagon, the World Trade Center of New York City and in Pennsylvania. In Air Mobility Command, the response to the attacks was immediate. At McGuire, now named Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, search and rescue teams and medical supplies were airlifted there by AMC aircraft and crews on Sept. 12. McGuire became the designated site by FEMA to house and feed urban search and rescue teams operating in New York City.