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IMMEDIATE RELEASE No. 405-96
June 29, 1996

AIR FORCE MEMBERS KILLED IN BOMBING IDENTIFIED (RELEASE #7)

The Department of the Air Force confirmed the hometowns of two more of the previously announced victims of Tuesday's bombing. Staff Sgt. Ronald L. King, hometown Battlecreek, Mich., and Airman 1st Class Brian W. McVeigh, hometown Debary, Fla. King was assigned to Offutt Air Force Base, Neb., and McVeigh was assigned to Eglin Air Force Base, Fla.

Nineteen Air Force members were killed and 64 remain hospitalized from the terrorist bombing of the Khobar Towers near King Abdul Aziz Air Base, Dhahran, Saudi Arabia.