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1 posted on 01/14/2017 4:04:43 AM PST by sukhoi-30mki
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Hometown Jacksonville, FL.

From Wilipedia:

Michael Scott Speicher was born in Kansas City, Missouri on 12 July 1957.[1][2] Scott and his sister went to Lakewood Elementary School and Eastgate Middle School[3] before attending Winnetonka High School.[4]

When Scott was 15, his family moved to Jacksonville, Florida, where he attended Nathan Bedford Forrest High School.[1][4] After graduating from high school, he then attended Florida State University. Scott graduated from FSU in 1980 with a bachelor’s degree in accounting and business management.[1][3] While at Florida State University, Scott met Joanne, whom he eventually married.

Scott’s father had been a fighter pilot in World War II and went on his first airplane flight when he was five years old.[3] When he was a teenager Scott was a cadet member of the Civil Air Patrol.[5] Upon graduation from FSU, Scott joined the United States Navy and attended Aviation Officer Candidate School at Naval Air Station Pensacola, 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 Hornet.[3] By the early 1990s, Scott had attained the rank of lieutenant commander and was stationed at Naval Air Station Cecil Field near Jacksonville, Florida.[2] He was assigned to VFA-81 (nicknamed the “Sunliners”), aboard the aircraft carrier USS Saratoga.[2] At the time of his deployment to the Iraq theater, Scott and Joanne had a 3-year-old daughter and 1-year-old son.[1][2][3]


2 posted on 01/14/2017 4:30:45 AM PST by mazda77
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3 posted on 01/14/2017 5:01:06 AM PST by silverleaf (Age takes a toll: Please have exact change)
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squadron commander Cmdr. Michael Anderson detected the MiG-25 almost as soon as it took off. Warned by his radar-warning-system, but lacking permission to open fire, Dawoud reacted by turning west and flying “around” Anderson’s Hornet in a counter-clockwise direction, still around 45 miles away. Although identifying the Iraqi fighter ahead of him as hostile, Anderson held his fire and awaited confirmation from a U.S. Air Force E-3A Sentry early-warning plane. However, the MiG-25 was at the far edge of the Sentry’s detection range and its radar was off — thus the E-3's crew lacked the data necessary to complete the identification process.

Sounds like U.S. ROE's have been a problem for a long long time.

5 posted on 01/14/2017 6:13:18 AM PST by AndyJackson
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