When I was a lad,back in the 50`s I flew in a Navy Air Partol Squadron (as gunner) with M.Scott Carpenter,who was Lt.jg at the time and was Navagator/Co-Pilot of the crew. Also even had a picture taken with G.H.W.Bush at a fund raiser the first time he ran for POTUS.
For all you youngsters out there Carpenter was one of the original seven Astronauts. He and John Glenn are the only ones of that group still with us.