The Air Force has built scores of air bases, but only one was named after an enlisted man. That man was Army Cpl. Frank S. Scott. Scott perished in an airplane crash in 1912, becoming the first enlisted fatality in the history of US military aviation. Service brass in 1917 bestowed Scott's name on a new base east of St. Louis. "Scott Field" grew into today's Scott AFB, Ⅲ.
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