Rank: Warrant Officer
Unit: Air Cavalry Troop, 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment
MOS: 100B – Utility/Observation Helicopter Pilot
Awards: Silver Star, Bronze Star Medal, Purple Heart Medal, Air Medal, National Defense Service Medal, Vietnam Service Medal, Republic of Vietnam Campaign Medal
Badges: Army Aviator Badge
Unit awards: Vietnamese Gallantry Cross with Palm device
Note: OH-6A, Tail # 66-07895, Co-pilot
Flight class: 69-23, Fort Wolters, Texas
Enlisted by: Reserve
Date of birth: 9-Feb-1950
Hometown: Powell, Wyoming
Marital status: Married to Vicki J. Scott
Campaign: Vietnam Conflict
Entered service: 6-Sep-1968
Start of tour: 4-Sep-1969
Incident date: 20-Jan-1970
Date of casualty: 20-Jan-1970
Age at death: 19
Cause of death: Hostile, died. Helicopter Crash — Crew (MC). Aircraft loss, crash not at sea.
Roger Lee Scott was killed while co-pilot on a military aircraft on a military mission when the aircraft was fired upon by a hostile ground force. The aircraft crashed and burned. / Co-pilot on LOH-6A on visual reconnaissance mission. Aircraft received hostile small arms (SA) fire, crashed and burned.
Location of fatality: Quang Duc, South Vietnam, YU 921 231
Place of interment: Crown Hill Cemetery, Powell, Wyoming, USA
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SILVER STAR
POSTHUMOUS
WARRANT OFFICER WO1 ROGER LEE SCOTT
20 JANUARY 1970
AIR CAVALRY TROOP
11TH ARMORED CAVALRY REGIMENT
Warrant Officer Scott distinguished himself by gallantry in action while engaged in military operations involving conflict against an armed hostile force on 20 January 1970 while serving as a co-pilot with the Air Cavalry Troop, 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment, in the Republic of Vietnam. On this date Warrant Officer Scott was flying with the aero scout platoon on a visual reconnaissance mission. As his ship passed over an enemy troop concentration, it was struck by intense automatic weapons fire, setting the engine on fire. Reacting instantly, he began marking the enemy locations with smoke while the pilot attempted to control the ship. Warrant Officer Scott laid down heavy suppressive fire, but the enemy fire hit the ship several more times, causing it to crash, resulting in Warrant Officer Scott being fatally injured. Warrant Officer Scott’s actions were in keeping with the highest traditions of the military service and reflect great credit upon himself, his unit and the United States Army.
Headquarters, II Field Force Vietnam, General Orders No. 1325 (31 March 1970)