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Robert Darling
In 2007, Lt. Col. Darling retired from the U.S. Marine Corps with over twenty years of active duty service. He flew attack helicopters in the first Gulf War, and in Somalia, with Operation Restore Hope. In June 1998, he was selected to fly as a presidential pilot with Marine Helicopter Squadron One and in October 2000, was handpicked to work for the White House, Airlift Operations Department. It was in that capacity that he supported the President, Vice President and National Security Advisor inside the President's Emergency Operations Center (PEOC) on September 11, 2001.
He is the author of “24 Hours Inside the President’s Bunker, 9/11/01: The White House and the President and CEO of Quantitative Analytics, LLC, and Turning Point Crisis Management-USA,.