Hood County Texas Genealogical Society

SCOTT JAMAR

1970 – 2003

An American Hero

CW2 Scott Jamar and Sons

IMMEDIATE RELEASE – APRIL 7, 2003 – NO. 206-3

DOD IDENTIFIES CASUALTIES IN BLACK HAWK CRASH

The Department of Defense announced today the names of six soldiers killed when their UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter crashed in central Iraq on Wednesday. The soldiers are:

Capt. James F. Adamouski, 29, of Springfield, Va.

Spc. Mathew G. Boule, 22, of Dracut, Mass.

Chief Warrant Officer Erik A. Halvorsen, 40, of Bennington, Vt.

Chief Warrant Officer Scott Jamar, 32, of Granbury, Texas.

Sgt. Michael F. Pedersen, 26, of Flint, Mich.

Chief Warrant Officer Eric A. Smith, 41, of Calif.

All were assigned to the 2nd Battalion, 3rd Aviation Regiment, Hunter Army Airfield, Ga.

KTXS-TV NEWS – ABILENE, TEXAS - APRIL 29, 2003

The crash of an Army Blackhawk helicopter in Iraq Wednesday has taken the life of an Abilene native who grew up in Sweetwater. The Blackhawk's pilot, Warrant Officer Scott Jamar, is a 1989 Sweetwater High School graduate. Jamar’s uncle, Pete Worley, lives in Abilene and told us Scott loved to fly and loved serving his county in the Army. Jamar was stationed at Fort Stewart, Georgia as a member of the 7th Cavalry, 3rd Infantry division. Worley says members of his family have taken part in every major U.S conflict since the civil war without one casualty, until now. Scott Jamar leaves behind two young children ages 5 and 7, a father and step-mother who live in Granbury and a mother and step-father in suburban Albuquerque.

USA TODAY

Army Chief Warrant Officer Scott Jamar, 32, of Granbury, Texas, assigned to 2nd Battalion, 3rd Aviation Regiment, Hunter Army Airfield, Ga.; killed in a UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter crash in central Iraq.

Chief Warrant Officer Scott Jamar, 32, a pilot, never met an activity he didn’t like when attending high school in Sweetwater, Texas.

“You name it, he did it,” says his longtime friend Shawn Chittum. Football. Track. Class president. Choir. National Honor Society.

Jamar, a divorced father of two boys, Brennan, 5, and Kyle, 7, loved to fly. But he almost didn’t make it as a pilot. He was initially turned down for being too tall in the torso. He served as a flight engineer on a Chinook helicopter, then re-applied to flight school and was accepted.

“Being a pilot, he was real excited about that,” Chittum said.

After graduating from Sweetwater High School in 1989, Jamar attended Southwest Texas State for a year before joining the military. He served in Alaska and Alabama and in Korea for two tours.

Shortly before shipping out for the Gulf, Jamar returned to Texas. He had just earned custody of his boys, and spent a couple of weeks with them. “He didn’t want to leave the boys,” Chittum said, “but Scott was a go-getter in all forms and fashion. They’d asked him to do a job and he was going to go do it.”

Killed: April 02, 2003

Army Chief Warrant Officer Scott Jamar, 32, Granbury, Texas

Army Chief Warrant Officer Scott Jamar died doing what he loved - being a military pilot.

"He wanted to be a career man and he loved flying those choppers," said his mother, Aggie Oldfield of Belen, N.M. "He knew he needed to be there. I told him I didn't want him to go, but he said that's why he joined the service."

Jamar was killed April 2 when his Black Hawk helicopter crashed in Iraq.

He joined the Army 13 years ago, after graduating from high school in Sweetwater, Texas.

Oldfield received her son's last letter March 24 and last saw him two years ago at Thanksgiving. Soon after that, Jamar was sent to Korea, returned from there in December and shipped out to Kuwait in January.

She said Jamar was deeply loyal not only to his country but to his two young sons, who live with their mother in Alabama.

"I was very proud of my son," Oldfield said. "He was doing what he was doing so his children and everyone here could have the life they have gotten so used to."

OBITUARY

Hood County News

Services Saturday for Soldier
Wednesday, April 09, 2003

Funeral services with full military honors for Chief Warrant Office Scott Jamar, 32, will be held at 10 a.m. Saturday, April 12, 2003, in Sweetwater's Mustang Bowl.

The Army officer, who was killed in Iraq, was a 1989 graduate of Sweetwater High School and played football in the Mustang Bowl.

Graveside services will be 4 p.m. Saturday in Holly Hills Memorial Park.

CWO Jamar is the son of Wayne and Jennifer Jamar of Granbury.

The Blackhawk helicopter pilot was killed Wednesday, April 2, 2003 when his helicopter crashed near Kabul, Iraq.

CWO Jamar joined the Army in 1990 to become a helicopter pilot. He was a flight engineer before becoming a pilot two years ago.

He was born Dec. 15, 1970 in Abilene and grew up in Sweetwater where he was a school leader, as well as athlete. He was also a night disc jockey for a radio station there while in school.

He was preceded in death by his grandfather, Richard Jamar.

Survivors are his parents, Wayne and Jennifer Jamar of Granbury; two sons, Kyle and Brennan Jamar of Alabama; a sister, Elizabeth Jamar of Dallas; a half-brother, Paul Allen of Georgia; and grandparents, Odean Jamar of Huntsville, Ark., and Neva and Dan Hymer of Fort Worth.

Memorials in lieu of flowers may be made to a trust fund for Brennan and Kyle Jamar, account #553301, Texas National Bank, 400 East Broadway, Sweetwater, Texas 79556.

Compiled by Virginia Hale

2003 HOOD COUNTY TEXAS GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY