Capt. Scott F. O'Grady United States Air Force
October 12, 1965-
Scott O'Grady (center) at a press conference after the Mrkonjić Grad incident.
Nickname	Zulu — call sign: Basher 52
Place of birth	Brooklyn, New York
Allegiance	USAF
Years of service	1989-2001
Rank	Captain
Unit	555th Fighter Squadron
Battles/wars	Operation Deny Flight
Relations	Scott has one brother, one sister, and his parents are divorced.
Other work	author:Return With Honor, speaker

Scott F. O'Grady (born October 12, 1965 in Brooklyn, New York) is a former United States Air Force captain who gained prominence after the Mrkonjić Grad incident, in which he ejected over Bosnia when his F-16C 89-2032/AV was shot down by a Bosnian Serb SA-6 on June 2, 1995 while patrolling the no-fly zone. Image File history File links OGrady-conference-bosnia. ... Combatants Bosnian Serb Army USAF Strength SA-6 missiles 2 F-16s Casualties none 1 aircraft destroyed The Mrkonjić Grad incident, June 2, 1995, was an incident in which a Bosnian Serb Army SA-6 surface-to-air missile shot down a USAF F-16 near Mrkonjić Grad, Bosnia. ... Call sign can refer to different types of call signs: Airline call sign Aviator call sign Cosmonaut call sign Radio and television call signs Tactical call sign, also known as a tactical designator See also: International Callsign Allocations, Maritime Mobile Service Identity This is a disambiguation page — a navigational... “The U.S. Air Force” redirects here. ... Enforcement of the Bosnian no-fly zone, beginning 12 April 1993 and ending 20 December 1995. ... is the 285th day of the year (286th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1965 (MCMLXV) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display full calendar) of the 1965 Gregorian calendar. ... This article is about the borough of New York City. ... This article is about the state. ... “The U.S. Air Force” redirects here. ... A Captain in armies, air forces and marine forces, is a rank an army or air force rank with a NATO rank code of OF-2. ... Combatants Bosnian Serb Army USAF Strength SA-6 missiles 2 F-16s Casualties none 1 aircraft destroyed The Mrkonjić Grad incident, June 2, 1995, was an incident in which a Bosnian Serb Army SA-6 surface-to-air missile shot down a USAF F-16 near Mrkonjić Grad, Bosnia. ... This article is about the country of Bosnia and Herzegovina. ... The F-16 Fighting Falcon is an American multirole jet fighter aircraft developed by General Dynamics and Lockheed Martin for the United States Air Force. ... A 3M9 TEL in desert camoflage. ... A No-Fly Zone is a territory over which aircraft generally or certain unauthorized aircraft are not permitted to fly. ...

The incident occurred near Mrkonjić Grad in Serb-held territory. He survived for six days eating little, avoiding Serb patrols and trying to contact Magic, the NATO organization. He evaded capture and was rescued six days later, on 8 June, by U.S. Marines of the 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit based on the USS Kearsarge. Mrkonjić-Grad (Cyrillic: Мркоњић-Град) is a town and municipality in western Bosnia and Herzegovina. ... Serbs (in the Serbian language Срби, Srbi) are a south Slavic people living chiefly in Serbia and Montenegro and Bosnia and Herzegovina. ... Look up magic in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... is the 159th day of the year (160th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... The United States Marine Corps (USMC) is a branch of the United States military responsible for providing power projection from the sea,[1] utilizing the mobility of the U.S. Navy to rapidly deliver combined-arms task forces. ... This article needs to be cleaned up to conform to a higher standard of quality. ... USS Kearsarge (LHD-3), the third Wasp-class amphibious assault ship, was the fifth ship of the United States Navy to be named (the fourth actually commissioned) in honor of the sloop Kearsarge, of American Civil War fame. ...

Their mission, known as a TRAP (Tactical Recovery of Aircraft and Personnel), was something they all had trained for and conducted many times as training exercises prior to the actual mission. Their parent unit, the 24th MEU-SOC, was actually the "standby" unit that was slated to go only after the primary unit in Italy waived off the mission and insisted on another day of prep.

The film Behind Enemy Lines is loosely based on his story. He sued the movie company in 2002 for making the film without his permission. Behind Enemy Lines is a 2001 film starring Gene Hackman and Owen Wilson. ...

O'Grady penned two books along with Michael French and Jeff Coplon detailing his experiences of being shot down over Bosnia and his eventual rescue — Return with Honor and Basher Five-Two.

O'Grady is a former cadet in the Civil Air Patrol and a 1989 Air Force ROTC graduate from Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University. Three years after he was rescued, O'Grady left active duty in the U.S. Air Force. In May 2007, he completed a master's degree in biblical studies at Dallas Theological Seminary. Civil Air Patrol seal The Civil Air Patrol (CAP) is the civilian auxiliary of the United States Air Force (USAF). ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University (ERAU) is a not-for-profit, non-sectarian, coeducational private university with a history dating back to the early days of aviation. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... Biblical studies is the academic study of the Judeo-Christian Bible and related texts. ... Dallas Theological Seminary (DTS) is a conservative graduate-level theological seminary located in Dallas, Texas, which has been, according to its mission statement, equipping godly servant-leaders for the proclamation of His Word and the building up of the body of Christ worldwide since its founding by Lewis Sperry Chafer...

The incident was later depicted on the documentary television program Critical Situation. Situation Critical (also known as Critical Situation) is a documentary television program. ...

Bibliography

• O'Grady, Captain Scott (with Jeff Coplon). Return with Honor, New York: Doubleday, 1995. (ISBN 0385483309)
• O'Grady, Scott (with Michael French). Basher Five-Two: The True Story of F-16 Fighter Pilot Captain Scott O'Grady, New York: Doubleday, 1997. (ISBN 0-385-32300-X)
• Kelly, Mary Pat. "Good to Go": The Rescue of Capt. Scott O'Grady, USAF, from Bosnia, Naval Institute Press, 1996. (ISBN 1-55750-459-8)

See also

• Mrkonjić Grad incident

Combatants Bosnian Serb Army USAF Strength SA-6 missiles 2 F-16s Casualties none 1 aircraft destroyed The Mrkonjić Grad incident, June 2, 1995, was an incident in which a Bosnian Serb Army SA-6 surface-to-air missile shot down a USAF F-16 near Mrkonjić Grad, Bosnia. ...

External links

• "O'Grady calls rescuers who saved American pilot 'heroes'", CNN, 1999-03-30. Retrieved on 2006-07-30. 
• Captain Scott F. O'Grady (profile). Last Frontier Council, Boy Scouts of America. Retrieved on 2006-12-14.
• More Information on the rescue of Scott O'Grady
• National Geographic Critical Situation profiles Scott O'Grady's story [1]