Scott Speicher's Remains Found; Gulf War Pilot Lost Since 1991

After Scott Speicher was shot down, he was declared killed by the Pentagon, and in fact was listed as the first U.S. casualty of the Gulf War. However, 10 years later, the Navy changed his status to missing in action, citing an absence of evidence that Scott Speicher had died.

Since then, his friends and family have championed a movement to get actual evidence in the case. When Scott Speicher's plane went down over Iraq, Joanne Speicher was a 31-year-old mother of two small children, Michael, then 3, and Meghan, a year old. She had met Scott at Florida State University, and married him in 1983.

Last month, the Pentagon disclosed on Sunday, it had received new information last month from an Iraqi citizen that led Marines to recover skeletal fragments, enough for a positive ID.

The Defense Department said in a statement that "One of these Iraqi citizens stated that they were present when Captain (Scott) Speicher was found dead at the crash site by Bedouins and his remains buried."

The remains uncovered allowed the military to ID Scott Speicher through the use of dental records. In addition to the dental record ID, Armed Forces Institute of Pathology in Rockville, Md., is running DNA tests on the remains recovered and comparing them with DNA reference samples previously provided by family members.