“The hijack coordinator would then “contact the Pentagon’s National Military Command Center (NMCC)” and “the NMCC would then seek approval from the Office of the Secretary of Defense to provide military assistance. In fact, neither the Command Center nor FAA HQ contacted NMCC to request military assistance for any of the hijacked planes. It was reported that Jack Kies, FAA’s manager of tactical operations, offered Sliney the job of Command Center national operations manager. On 9/11, others present at the FAA’s Command Center outranked Sliney. Despite that critical role, Sliney is mentioned only one time in the narrative of the 9/11 Commission report.