Scott Sather was born June 21st, 1973 in Flint, Michigan. He was raised in Clio, just a few miles north of Flint and attended Clio High School where he graduated in 1991 just months after the first Persian Gulf War came to a close. He enlisted in 1992 as a Combat Controller (CCT), and throughout his years in service he had been stationed in McChord AFB, Washington with the 22nd STS; RAF-Mildenhall and RAF Alconbury, England with the 321st STS, and Lackland AFB, Texas.
His last assignment was with the 24th Special Tactics Squadron – an elite Air Force Special Operations unit assigned to the Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC) out of Pope Air Force Base, North Carolina. The 24th STS, like it’s Army and Navy JSOC special mission units is a Tier 1 top-priority unit for the Department of Defense whose Combat Controller and Pararescue (PJs) members number just in the double digits.
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Scott Sather was born June 21st, 1973 in Flint, Michigan. He was raised in Clio, just a few miles north of Flint and attended Clio High School where he graduated in 1991 just months after the first Persian Gulf War came to a close. He enlisted in 1992 as a Combat Controller (CCT), and throughout his years in service he had been stationed in McChord AFB, Washington with the 22nd STS; RAF-Mildenhall and RAF Alconbury, England with the 321st STS, and Lackland AFB, Texas.
His last assignment was with the 24th Special Tactics Squadron – an elite Air Force Special Operations unit assigned to the Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC) out of Pope Air Force Base, North Carolina. The 24th STS, like it’s Army and Navy JSOC special mission units is a Tier 1 top-priority unit for the Department of Defense whose Combat Controller and Pararescue (PJs) members number just in the double digits.
It was on the drive towards Tikrit somewhere in the deserts of Western Iraq, on the night of April 8th, 2003 that Scott Sather lost his life during a combat operation after eleven years of military service – almost a decade ago today. He was 29 years-old. He was buried two weeks later in Arlington National Cemetery where fellow CCTs and PJs in red and maroon-colored berets, along with a handful of Ranger tan berets in the crowd paid their final respects to their fallen brother.
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