For US Air Force Major Christine Locke and her fellow members of the 4411th Rescue Squadron, the Global War on Terrorism began not on September 11, 2001, but on June 25, 1996, when terrorists detonated a bomb at the Khobar Towers housing complex in Saudi Arabia - Building 131: her building - killing her aircraft commander, flight engineer and radio operator as well as 16 other US servicemen and wounding hundreds of others. Escaping injury herself, Locke tells the story of that terrible attack, the immediate aftermath, the frantic rescue efforts in which she directly participated, and also the numerous short- and long-term consequences for her and her entire unit in extraordinary detail. In addition, the HC-130 pilot discusses her more recent GWOT service while assigned to the 36th Airlift Squadron and stationed at Yokota Air Base in Japan from March 2000 to March 2003. During this period, she supported and personally flew Operation Enduring Freedom-Philippines resupply missions and also missions to Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia and North Korea for Joint Task Force-Full Accounting, whose goal is to achieve the fullest possible accounting of Americans still missing and unaccounted for as a result of the war in Southeast Asia. Locke talks about her successive duties and responsibilities as a barrel master in current operations (aircraft and crew scheduler), a wing current operations chief and a C-130 evaluator pilot, and also covers her time as a member of the Micronesian Island Crisis Action Team.

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