I take some comfort in an article I read shortly after this operation began. I believe the article was in USA today but don't have the reference. The author talked with some of the reservists flying these missions. At least those reservists were airline pilots in their civilian occupations. I hope that this is true more often than not. I hope that they would be the most reluctant to shoot down a fellow pilot and his plane full of passengers and shouldn't be quick on the trigger.

I guess I witnessed a training run around 3:45 PM on 12/27 at CVG. We were taking off on 18L and were only a couple of hundred feet off the ground when my wife and I saw two fighters pull off a low level flight on 18R. Having heard of no escorted flights into CVG on the 27th I assume this was a training run.