SECNAV Announces Speicher Status Review


05 April, 2005

Navy Press Release
SECNAV Announces Decision to Review Status of Capt. Speicher
Story Number: NNS050405-13
Release Date: 4/5/2005 2:49:00 PM

From Chief of Navy Information

WASHINGTON (NNS) -- Upon review of an intelligence community report regarding the case of Capt. Michael Scott Speicher, Secretary of the Navy Gordon England directed the Chief of Naval Personnel to convene a board to review the classification of SpeicherÕs status as Missing/Captured.

SpeicherÕs, aircraft was shot down Jan. 17, 1991, the first day of the Gulf War. In October 2002, England changed SpeicherÕs status from Missing in Action to Missing/Captured.

The report provides an update for the offices of the Secretaries of Defense and Navy concerning intelligence community actions between November 2002 and March 2005 to determine the fate of Speicher, classified as Missing/Captured from the Gulf War.



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