 At nearly 60 years old, he was the oldest and highest-ranking person to earn jump wings through that program, said to be the only training program in the world where the student's very first jump is accomplished as solo freefall (as opposed to solo static line or tandem freefall).A point of irony is that Willard W. Scott was a cadet at West Point at the same time as Winfield W. Scott, with Willard being two years senior to Winfield.While they share W. W. Scott as their abbreviated name, the two are not related.