Lieutenant Colonel Steven Hadley, USAF, (center), 16th Special Operations Wing (Deployed) Operations Group Commander, talks with General Eric K. Shinseki, USA, (left), about the special operations mission at a forward deployed operating location. General Shinseki made an unscheduled stop at the location to discuss issues affecting the military service members deployed there as part of Operation ENDURING FREEDOM. 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.