Lieutenant Commander Scott C. Menzies graduated in 2000 from the United States Naval Academy with a Bachelor of Science Degree in Aeronautical Engineering and holds a Master’s Degree in Systems Analysis from the United States Navy Postgraduate School. Following completion of the Navy’s flight training syllabus, he was designated as a Naval Flight Officer and flew in E-2Cs with the world famous Screwtops of VAW-123. He has taught Air Defense at Tactical Training Group, Pacific, served aboard the USS Nimitz as a ‘Shooter’, participated in the Operational Test and Evaluation of the E-2D with VX-1, and was the Operations Department Head at TACRON 11. He is currently serving as the Tactical Data Links Section Head and stands watch as a Duty Controller at the NATO CAOC in Torrejon, Spain.