The first night of Operation Desert Storm, Lt. Cmdr. Michael Scott Speicher took off from the flight deck of the USS Saratoga in his F/A-18 Hornet. He was the first casualty of the war and was ...

Is Speicher alive? There certainly is evidence that he was alive after being shot down, and in the absence of credible evidence proving him dead, all Americans must demand his immediate release.

Lt. Cmdr. Michael Scott Speicher of Jacksonville, Fla., was lost when his Navy F-18 Hornet was shot down on Jan. 16, 1991, in a dogfight with an Iraqi fighter jet during the first few hours of the ...

Commander, Fleet Activities Chinhae (CFAC) bid farewell to Lt. Cmdr. Nathan Ouellette, a native of Derry, New Hampshire, at the CFAC theater June 13, 2025 after 24 years of dedicated service.

The first combat operations of Desert Storm barely started a few hours before Lieutenant Commander Michael Scott Speicher vanished out of thin air. Soon after, reports confirmed that his F/A-18 ...

The "Intelligence Community Assessment of the Lieutenant Commander Speicher Case" is a summary of all the facts known about the case to the American i ...

A graduate of Kemper Military College, where he served as Battalion Commander, Lt. Col. Speicher dedicated 27 years of his life to serving his country as a United States Army officer.

U.S. Navy Lt. Cmdr. Christopher Olsen and his wife, Jessica Olsen, pose together in this undated photo. Stripes Via Arguinzoni family ...

A mugshot of Michael Smith (Santa Rosa County Sheriff’s Office). 50-year-old Lt. Cmdr. Michael Smith was booked into the Santa Rosa County Jail after 4:30 p.m. Thursday.

A lieutenant commander from the Navy’s Fleet Readiness Center Northwest was arrested Friday on allegations of sexual abuse of a minor.

NAS Patuxent River named Lt. Cmdr. Chad Henderson of PMA-242 the 2022 Admiral Merlin O’Neill Officer of the Year in an award ceremony Nov. 10 at the Pax River Flight Deck Lounge.