Early Life, Education and Family
Michael Scott Speicher was born in Kansas City, Missouri on July 12, 1957. Scott and his sister went to Lakewood Elementary School and Eastgate Middle School before attending Winnetonka High School.
When Scott was 15, his family moved to Jacksonville, Florida, where he attended Nathan Bedford Forrest High School. 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. While at Florida State University, Scott met Joanne, whom he eventually married.
Scott's father had been a fighter pilot in World War II. Scott went on his first airplane flight when he was five years old. When he was a teenager Scott also served in the Civil Air Patrol. Scott joined the United States Navy and spent several years as a flight instructor on F/A-18 Hornet aircraft. By the early 1990s, Scott had attained the rank of lieutenant commander and was stationed at Naval Air Station Cecil Field near Jacksonville, Florida. He was assigned to VFA-81 (nicknamed the "Sunliners"), aboard the aircraft carrier USS Saratoga. At the time of his deployment to the Iraq theater, Scott and Joanne had a 3-year-old daughter and 1-year-old son. Eighteen months after his disappearance, Joanne married Speicher's best friend Buddy Harris.
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