Timestamp: 00:03:46 – 00:05:12
Topic: Surviving the catastrophic explosion of the base arms room
Steven Shell: “…Our arms room blew up, and I was in the doorway when it blew up. Luckily, the guy in front of me was bigger than me and he took most of the impact, and it blew me out the door. I wasn’t even supposed to be there… It was the outgoing shift that was turning their weapons in and cleaning them at the time when it blew up.
They said that it was somebody that was messing with their grenades… It turned out a couple years later that it was actually sabotage. We had one person killed and probably 15 wounded. And while it was blowing up, we had other security policemen that crawled in… pulling people out, and they all got the Airman’s Medal.”