Operation Family

The LCCC Operation Family event is open to the public and is a celebration of our military community and a fundraiser to support the development of a scholarship at Laramie County Community College for active and retired military dependents. The event will feature a keynote address by Captain Scott F. O'Grady and silent auction. 

Captain O'Grady was helping enforce the NATO no-fly zone policy in the skies over Bosnia when a Soviet-made anti aircraft missile slammed into his F-16. O'Grady tells his incredible story of how he survived in hostile territory for six days before being rescued by the U.S. Marines in his book, Return With Honor, which spent six weeks on The New York Times best-seller list. He has also published Basher Five-Two, a children's edition of his original story. His courageous story has also been documented on the Discovery Channel presentation, Behind Enemy Lines. In addition, O'Grady has been featured on CNN's Voices of the Millennium, a Then and Now, series that focus on the most influential personalities of the 20th Century.

O'Grady has accumulated more than 1,300 military flying hours including over 1,000 in the F-16.