Scotty Wirtz Veterans Fund
Supporting Our Heroes
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The Scotty Wirtz Veterans Fund is dedicated to supporting veterans and their families. We raise funds for organizations like the Navy SEAL Foundation and Dogs for Our Brave to ensure their sacrifices are honored.
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Scotty's Life
December 12, 1976 - January 16, 2019: St. Louis MO
On Wednesday, JAN 16, 2019, while on assignment in Syria, Scott and three other Americans were killed by an Islamic State suicide bomber in the northern Syrian town of Manbij.
We will never forget the knock on our door at 11:15 p.m. that evening.
The attack, which also wounded three U.S. troops, was the deadliest assault on U.S. troops in Syria since American forces went into the country in 2015.
Scott is a St. Louis hero and a graduate of De Smet Jesuit High School in St. Louis County, Missouri. Scott enlisted with the United States Navy in 1997. He began the Basic Underwater Demolition/Sea Air Land training program at Coronado, California graduating on APR 24, 1998. Scott achieved his life-long dream of joining the U.S. Navy to become a Navy SEAL. Scott served as a Navy SEAL for eight years. He spent most of his Navy career from 1998 to 2005 assigned to the Coronado, California based SEAL Team 5, where he specialized as a sniper. He served tours in Iraq, Afghanistan and deployed to locations in Africa, the Philippines, and South Korea.
During his tenure in the Navy, he was awarded:
- Navy/Marine Corps Achievement Medal
- Two Good Conduct Medals
- National Defense Medal
- Secretary of Defense Medal for the Global War on Terrorism as a DIA civilian.
- Expert Marksman
Throughout his enlistment, Scott served several combat deployments before ending his service in 2005 at the rank of petty officer second class.
After serving in the Navy, he spent years working for military security contracting groups before joining the Defense Intelligence Agency in 2017 as an Operations Support Specialist, overseeing operations to collect human intelligence. He served three deployments to the Middle East in this role.
Scott Andrew Wirtz is buried at Jefferson Barracks National Cemetery in St. Louis.
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