Ritchie Miller:
CLASS OF 1980
Greenway High SchoolClass of 1980
Phoenix, AZ
Greenway High SchoolClass of 1980
Phoenix, AZ
Ritchie's Story
Graduated Navy bootcamp in July 1980.
Attended the Defense Language Institute in Monterey, California, to learn French
Assigned to Rota, Spain from 1981 to 1985 with the Naval Security Group. Became Naval Aircrew in 1982 and flew with VQ-2 (reconnaissance squadron) throughout the Mediterranean and eastern Atlantic.
1985 to 1990 - Went to college and worked for a defense contractor in the Washington, D.C. area.
Joined the Foreign Service in 1990 and served at the following posts:
U.S. Embassy Monrovia, Liberia 1991 to 1993
U.S. Embassy Almaty, Kazakhstan 1993 to 1995
U.S. Embassy Dublin, Ireland 1995 to 1998 (married my wife in 1996)
U.S. Embassy Niamey, Niger 1998 to 2000
U.S. Embassy San Jos...Expand for more
e, Costa Rica 2000 to 2003 (Temporary assignment to Kabul, Afghanistan, in Feb. 2002)
U.S. Department of State, Washington, D.C. 2003 to 2005 (Temporary assignment to Baghdad, Iraq, in February 2004)
Foreign Service Institute, National Foreign Affairs Training Center, Arlington, Virginia, 2005 to 2007 (adopted my daughter from Guatemala in 2006)
U.S. Mission to the United Nations, Geneva, Switzerland 2007 to 2010
U.S. Embassy Mexico City, Mexico, 2010 to 2012
U.S. Department of State, Washington, D.C. 2012 to Present (Operations Chief - Office of Global IT Modernization)
If I'm going to work somewhere, I need to have diet coke, sunshine, and a good staff to be able to deal with the day-to-day.
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