USAFA Class Heritage Class of 1963

Retired Col Air Force 91: CP (Command Pilot): 

99-09: Financial/Tax Planning CFP (Certified Financial Planner), Destiny Financial Concepts, Trinidad CO;

91-98: lndepFinPlanner DenverCO/RegisteredRep&Agent USPA&IRA Aurora CO;

88-91: DptyCmdr Resources 435TAWg Rhein Main AB GW;

86-88: DptyCmdrResources 3TFWg (Tactical Fighter Wing);

85-86: Comp 3TFWg (Tactical Fighter Wing);

84-85: Comp 438MAWg McGuire AFB;

81-84: AsstDptyCmdrOpns 375MWg ScottAFB; 7981: COpnsPlansDiv 375Aeromedica1Airlif1Wg (Wing) Scott AFB;

79: AirCSC (Air Command and Staff College);

76-79: CompStaffO HqMAC Scott AFB;

71-74: Plt (Pilot)/StaffOpnsO 375AeromedicaIAirtif1Wg (Wing) Scott AFB;

70: StaffOpnsO 314AirDiv Osan AB SK;

67-69: SOS (Squadron Officer School): Acadlnstr 3510PIITngWg/SqTngO 3517StuSq RandolphAFB;

64: lnstrPlt (Instructor Pilot) 3526StuSq Williams AFB;

63-64: PIITng Laredo AFB; 

1 LOM (Legion of Merit)-5MSM (Meritorious Service Medal)-2AFCM (Air Force Commendation Medal); 

33711 Mountain View Trinidad CO 81082-3994: Nancy

Col Scott's, ‘Denny’, 32-year Air Force career included 20 years as a pilot logging over 5,000 flying hours and attaining the rating of Command Pilot. Later he held senior command positions in resource management and operations with tours on Clark Air Base in the Philippines and Rhein-Main Air Base in West Germany where he witnessed the fall of the Berlin Wall and helped direct refueling and transportation of hardware and personnel for the first Persian Gulf War (1990–1991). He received numerous military awards including the Legion of Merit, Meritorious Service Medals, and the Korea Defense Service Medal for his 1970–1971 Korean tour supporting US Air Force General Maloy who commanded and expanded the US military in Korea as part of the United Nations command in Korea.

Denny and Nancy had two children. Susan Denise Scott, born in 1965, who is with us today, and David Anthony Scott, born in 1964 with profound developmental disabilities caused by a rubella infection prior to the development of an immunization. Together the couple worked tirelessly to help David's development including the use of Doman-Delacato, a patterning and motor skills therapy which helped him crawl and then walk — defying medical expectations. Later when completing his MBA, Denny supported Nancy in completing both her BA and MBA and subsequent successful effort to open the Specialized Living Center in Illinois to provide David with a safe place to age as an adult. Unfortunately, in 1981, David died and is buried at the Air Force Academy.

After his military retirement in June 1991, Denny and Nancy settled in Denver and worked together for seven years with USPA-IRA Financial Services. Denny became a Certified Financial Planner and enjoyed helping young families make financial plans for retirement. 35th Reunion (1998): In my 29th year of service I was retired involuntarily. But it was an expected event. I could have stayed forever, but my career was unusually undistinguished: all PME done in the den; all jobs but one at the Wing or lower; and I was highly undecorated. Not keeper credentials in the massive post Desert Storm force reduction. But it was a wonderful career of service and I got to share it from the first day with my beloved Nancy. We served with super folks and saw TX, AZ, NM, TX, FL, NJ, IL, Korea, Clark and all the Pacific, and Rhein-Main and all of Europe...missed SEA. The T-37, T-33, C-9 and CT-39 were mundane AC but personally satisfying missions. And there was great satisfaction in the final assignment...observing the fall of the Berlin Wall, and managing the 8 month strategic airlift flow through Rhein-Main to and from the mid-east in 90&91. Summer of 59 was traumatic...lost 50 pounds in 2 months, I remember: shining shoes in the dark, stuffing laundry bags in the door louvers to study late, cooking meals on the desk lamp from vittles brought back by doolies, 4 years of Masses in lecture halls, living with liquor in mattresses and inside 12� woofer speakers, high speed races down the Valley highway to sign-in only to stuff the bed and hit the tunnels to get back out again, Jim Fausey totaling my first new car, the first open-post I rented the motel room and everyone else got sloshed), instructing survival, and honor committee deliberations. It was a fabulous way to enter adult life. I will always be grateful for the friendships made, the education, and the values solidified at the USAFA, and that the AF assisted us in caring for our beloved David�a profoundly retarded and physically challenged saint. They even allowed a 14-year stay in one place so his care could be enhanced. Susan benefited from the exposure to AF life, attended Norte Dame and later the U of MN for her MA, and recently presented us with a 7 lb 4 oz 22� grand baby boy. The pressure is off her to produce a �male�, but now the pressure is on me to produce a 7 lb 4 oz 22� rainbow trout� on a fly that I tied. Since retirement I have represented USPA & IRA, the largest independent provider of comprehensive financial programs for military members and families. Nancy works with me, and between appointments we are developing plans for the cedar or adobe home we will build next year on our 38 acres I south central CO. I recently attained the CFP designation and hope to continue the financial planning efforts as long as it doesn�t interfere too much with the bouncing the grand babies or the pursuit of that 7 Ib 4 oz 22� rainbow trout.