"Just after 12:30 p.m., Air Force One took off, this time headed to Offutt Air Force Base near Omaha, Neb., home of U.S. Strategic Command. Its top-notch security and communications network appealed to Tillman and national security advisers. They spent only about an hour and a half at Offutt as Bush was anxious to return to Washington.
"This was a president who wanted to get back into the battle," Tillman says. "I say this jokingly, but I guess when they wrote these plans they didn't realize a Texan would be in office and his job was to go kick ass as soon as he could."
Fighters escorted Air Force One back to Washington; it landed at Andrews Air Force Base just after 6:30 p.m."
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