GREENSBURG, Pa. (Tribune News Services) — A sudden blast jolted Neal Gouker awake. The explosion from an Iraqi Scud missile slammed him against a wall in his barracks in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia. "The place was on fire, and bullets were going off," recalled Gouker, 50, formerly of Glassport. "For 5 miles around, there were broken windows. It was chaotic. "My left side was hit with shrapnel. It hit a nerve, and I had temporary paralysis and a bad limp on my left side. I had to work through that." Three decades have passed since that devastating attack on the Westmoreland County-based 14th Quartermaster Detachment.