Airmen survive terrorist attack by being fit to fight

http://www.af.mil/news/story.asp?storyID=123007989

{EXCERPT} , By Staff Sgt. Melanie Streeter Air Force Print News

6/18/2004 - WASHINGTON -- In the early morning hours of May 30, an
Airman lay in a dusty maintenance room of a building in Khobar, Saudi
Arabia, with a tourniquet around his arm, struggling to stay alive.

The morning before, Lt. Col. James Broome III and a colleague, Lt.
Col. Ed O’Neal, both assigned to the U.S. Military Training Mission in
Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, were in Khobar to evaluate a Saudi air force
maintenance training program and provide advice and guidance. But that
was not in the cards; fate dealt a different hand on this day.

Shortly after the colonels finished their breakfast, they were warned
that the compound was under attack.

Colonel O'Neal said his instincts and training from his experience as
a former Soldier and peacekeeper in Bosnia kicked in as he assessed
the situation.

“(He) kind of guided me through the next few minutes,” Colonel Broome
said. “His thoughts were that we needed to move fast and seek higher
ground.”

The colonels made their way up through a building next to where
they...

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