US Navy pilot and first American casualty of the Persian Gulf War
Michael Scott Speicher
Speicher in 1990
Born
(1957-07-12)July 12, 1957 Kansas City, Missouri, U.S.
Died
January 17, 1991(1991-01-17) (aged 33) Tulul ad Dulaym, Al Anbar Governorate, Iraq
Buried
Jacksonville Memory Gardens, Orange Park, Florida, U.S.
Allegiance
United States
Service/branch
United States Navy
Rank
Captain (posthumous)
Unit
VFA-81 Sunliners
Battles/wars
Persian Gulf War
Operation Desert Storm †
Awards
Purple Heart
Michael Scott Speicher (July 12, 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. His fate was not known until 2 August 2009 when the U.S. Navy reported that Speicher's remains had been found in Iraq by the United States military. The official cause of death was "homicide by undetermined means" and DNA testing showed survival after his crash. He is also the most recent American to have been shot down in air-to-air combat.
Michael ScottSpeicher (July 12, 1957 – unknown) was a naval aviator in the United States Navy who was shot down over Iraq during the Persian Gulf War...
200-foot (2,200 m). The Americans named the airfield after Captain Michael ScottSpeicher, a United States Navy pilot who was killed in action in Iraq during...
Body Not Recovered. That one MIA case, that of U.S. Lt. Cmdr. Michael ScottSpeicher, became quite well known. He was reported as missing after his F/A-18...
American F/A-18C Hornet and killing its pilot, Lieutenant Commander ScottSpeicher. In an effort to demonstrate their own air offensive capability, on...
in an air-to-air engagement. The pilot, Lieutenant Commander Michael ScottSpeicher, of VFA-81 was killed but his body was not found until July 2009. January...
directive the complex was named in honor of Lieutenant Commander Michael ScottSpeicher, a graduate of Florida State University and the first American casualty...
remains of the pilot, U.S. Navy Captain Michael "Scott" Speicher, solving an 18-year mystery. Captain Speicher, who was a Lieutenant Commander at the time...
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of Families has also championed the case of Gulf War missing airman ScottSpeicher, and also U.S. Prisoners of War or Missing in Action statuses service...
ongoing investigation into the fate of United States Navy Captain Michael ScottSpeicher, who was shot down in 1991 during the Gulf War. Initially presumed dead...
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group of family, friends and classmates of Navy pilot ScottSpeicher gather at the wall. Speicher, who grew up in Jacksonville, was shot down on the first...
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Global Information
United States
United States Navy
Captain (posthumous)
VFA-81 Sunliners