Speicher was flying an F/A-18 Hornet fighter, BuNo 163484, when he was shot down by Iraqi Air Force (IQAF) aircraft 100 miles west of Baghdad, in the early hours of 17 January 1991, the first night of Operation Desert Storm. Loss incident į/A-18 Hornet resembling Speicher's aircraft on static display at NAS Pensacola At the time of his deployment to the Iraq theater, Speicher and his wife had a 3-year-old daughter and 1-year-old son. He was assigned to Strike Fighter Squadron Eighty One ( VFA-81 Sunliners), deploying with Carrier Air Wing 17 (CVW-17) aboard the aircraft carrier USS Saratoga. īy the early 1990s, Speicher had attained the rank of lieutenant commander and was stationed at NAS Cecil Field near Jacksonville, Florida. After flight training at various bases, he was designated as a naval aviator and spent several years as both a fleet squadron aviator in the A-7 Corsair II and F/A-18 Hornet and as a flight instructor on the F/A-18. Navy and attended Aviation Officer Candidate School at Naval Air Station Pensacola, Florida. Upon graduation from FSU, Speicher joined the U.S. Speicher was a cadet member of the Civil Air Patrol as a teenager. Speicher went on his first airplane flight when he was five years old. Speicher's father had been a fighter pilot in World War II.
Navy pilot Buddy Harris married Joanne, and they had two more children. 18 months after Speicher went missing in the 1991 Persian Gulf War, friend and fellow U.S. While at Florida State, he met Joanne, whom he eventually married, and they had two children. Speicher graduated from FSU in 1980 with a bachelor's degree in accounting and business management. After graduating from high school, he then attended Florida State University (FSU). When Speicher was 15, his family moved to Jacksonville, Florida, where he attended Nathan Bedford Forrest High School.
Scott and his sister went to Lakewood Elementary School and Eastgate Middle School before attending Winnetonka High School. Michael Scott Speicher was born in Kansas City, Missouri, on 12 July 1957. He is also the most recent American to have been shot down in air-to-air combat. The official cause of death was "homicide by undetermined means" and DNA testing showed survival after his crash. Navy reported that Speicher's remains had been found in Iraq by the United States military. His fate was not known until 2 August 2009 when the U.S. Michael Scott Speicher (12 July 1957 – unknown) was a naval aviator in the United States Navy who was shot down over Iraq during the Persian Gulf War becoming the first American combat casualty of the war. Jacksonville Memory Gardens, Orange Park, Florida, U.S.
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