My goal was to make first lieutenant. I never spent a lot of time worrying about what came after that.

If I spent all of my time worrying about how I was going to live up to their standards, I don't think I'd be focused on the important things.

I was, somewhere in the neighborhood of about 300 jumps.

We came back right over the World Trade Center and could see, even from that altitude, the devastation, the smoke that was coming up. It was obvious it was going to be horrible.

Of course, you always have to be concerned about hijacking. But with the measures that are in place right now, I'd say that probably the airways are as safe as they've been in a good number of years.

I spent a lot of time writing about tax and pensions and mortgages.