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Documenting a Tragedy: AFGSC historian recalls Khobar Towers
"Our Nomads have Ceased Their Wandering.” The epitaph, etched into a monument at Eglin Air Force Base, Florida, refers to the 33rd Fighter Wing Airmen who lost their lives in the terrorist attack on Khobar Towers. Command Historian Yancy Mailes, Air Force Global Strike Command, was a 27-year-old staff sergeant at the time. It was June 25, 1996 and he had been the wing’s historian for three months. With little training and less experience, he found himself as one of the key contributors to documenting the tragedy.
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