Eighteen years of waiting and wondering officially came to an end when the Department of Defense announced on Sunday that the remains of the Gulf War’s only MIA had been found. U.S. Navy Captain Michael Scott Speicher, an F-18 fighter pilot, was shot down in Iraq on January 17, 1991, during the early days of Operation Desert Storm. Some had speculated Speicher might be alive and a captive of Saddam Hussein’s government, ever since an international Red Cross team investigated the crash site of his plane in 1995 but found no ejector seat or human remains. As it turned out, a group of Bedouins found Speicher’s body and buried him in Anbar province, where a detachment of U.S Marines recently discovered his bones, leading to a positive identification at the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology in Rockville, Maryland.