
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...