Richard Miller:  

After graduating from RLHS in 1962 I joined the U.S. Navy. I spent 20+ years in the Navy living in such places as Kodiak, Alaska; Long Beach, California; Yokosuka, Japan; Antigua, West Indies; Pensacola, Florida and Diego Garcia, Indian Ocean. I spent a total of 8 and a half years onboard USS Bennington, USS Lexington. USS Dash and USS Adroit. I retired from the Navy in September of 1983. While in the Navy, I met and married Lorraine in Long Beach, California. We had two sons, Sam and David who both joined the Navy and are now retired. We just celebrated our 47th anniversary onboard the cruise ship Carnival Dream (April 15). We love cruising, and the Dream was our 20th cruise on Carnival Cruise Lines. After retiring from the Navy I took some time off. I hit all the golf balls I ever cared to hit, and caught all the fish I ever cared to catch. I felt it was time to get back to the real world, and took a job at the Juvenile Justice Center here in Pensacola, Florida. Looking back at my entire working career, this was the most rewarding job I have had. I loved working with the kids, and still correspond with some of them today. I worked there for about a year, but I continually received calls requesting I go back to work for the Navy. I finally gave in and took a Civil Service position as Computer Deck Supervisor at the Naval Communications Station Jacksonville, Florida. While attending training in Jacksonville I met the Vice President of Validity Corp. who was conducting the training. We hit it off very well, and after a short time he invited me to Washington, D.C. to interview for the position of Hardware Acceptance Supervisor. I took the job, and developed and tested communications systems and traveled the world installing the systems and training on all of the systems. I lov...Expand for more