SF Raiding Party Occupies CNN HQ!

Buzz White goes to work informing friendly CNN employees about the Tailwind issue.  They had no idea about it and were duly appalled by it all after Buzz's excellent briefing.    This is really what most everyone spent the day doing… talking to people about why we were there.

Our men wasted no time seizing foot traffic choke-points and key terrain to spread our message around and make new friends.  The local indig were universally friendly and receptive.

Making contact with CNN friendlies.  Tom Marzullo (back to camera) strikes up rapport with Steve Bramham.  Steve is a veteran's 'activist' of sorts and also a senior engineer at CNN.  He's been there since before Turner.  He also sat in with us at the lunch meeting with their VP PR.

Our secret weapon… heavy artillery... George Forsythe… piper extraordinaire… he's a former airborne rigger officer.  Says he won't miss the next one for anything.  A darned good man to have on our side.    That's JR Turner's quickly improvised sign in the background.

Tom Marzullo doing what Tom does well… schmoozing the media folks.  Tom stayed pretty busy doing this all day long.

SF to the rescue.  A lady took a nasty spill and went flying ass over tea kettle down the stairs.  Our guys jumped right in to help.  Notice the useless CNN uniformed man in the backround without a clue what to do to help.  She was shook up pretty badly, but our guys got her up and back on her feet in short order.

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Left to right.  Bob Golden, George Forsythe, JR Turner, Jack Tobin, Don Valentine and John Hauck.

Left to right, Don Valentine, JR Turner's daughter, Arthur Hines (blocking Jack Tobin), JR Turner, Bob Golden and John Hauck sporting the beret.  Taken at main entrance to CNN Building.

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The New York Wrecking Crew.  Ranger Bob and Piper George. Rumor has it that Piper George single-handedly initiated at least three ulcer flare-ups, four or five nuerotic outbreaks and numerous anxiety attacks in the CNN executive suite with his thundering and raucous, yet melodic and resonant renditions of The Ballad Of The Green Beret, America The Beautiful, It's A Grand Old Flag, all of the military service songs and a host of medleys that less patriotic types generally don't care to listen to. George did not make that an option on this particular day, though. They could ignore us, but they couldn't ignore George.  It's been reported that Ranger Bob ate a CNN executive weenie at the lunch meeting ;-)