Inside a KC-135 Stratotanker, a boom operator from the 108th Air Refueling Squadron, New Jersey Air National Guard, McGuire Air Force Base, New Jersey explains the Combat Air Patrol mission to a guest reporter from Channel 12 New Jersey Network before departing for an air refueling mission over New York. The mission is part of Operation ENDURING FREEDOM Combat Air Patrol missions. In response to the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001 at the New York World Trade Center and the Pentagon, President George W. Bush initiated Operation ENDURING FREEDOM in support of the Global War on Terrorism (GWOT), fighting terrorism abroad