Jack graduated from the local high school and went to work as a Forest Service Headquarters guard, commissary clerk, and short string packer on the Moose Creek Ranger District, stationed at Bear Creek Ranger Station. His maternal grandmother lived with them and taught him to harness a horse and to plow a straight furrow. Not until he was flying a B-24 did he realize that mercury freezes at - 40° Fahrenheit. On the tent’s mercury thermometer, he never saw it colder than 40° below zero. There wasn’t enough room in the house so Jack grew up in a 12’ wall tent on a tent platform. Jack was the oldest of seven children, five boys and two girls. The family lived on a hardscrabble farm in a small 3-room house with an 8’ lean-to on the back side. His father was an alternate Forest Ranger stationed in the primitive area of Idaho and Montana.
Jack was born in 1924 and raised in the Bitteroot Valley of Montana. Tufts University and a Masters of Business Administration from Harvard University.Ĭolonel Jack Krout, United States Air Force
Scott is currently an executive at Optimizely, a San Francisco-based software company. Tufts University and a Masters from Harvard University. His military awards and decorations include the Meritorious Service Medal, the Air Medal, the Joint ServicesĬommendations Medal, the Humanitarian Service Medal, and the Liberation of Kuwait Medal.Īfter leaving the Army, he earned a Masters Degree in International Relations from the Fletcher School at He served in Germany, the Gulf War, Hawaii, and Haiti.
Officer and Helicopter Pilot from 1986-1995, flying 37 combat missions during Desert Storm and commanding anĪttack Helicopter company. Scott was commissioned as an officer upon graduation from Colorado College.