Roger Miller:  

Roger's schools include Central Bucks High School, Downingtown Junior High School. Tamanend Junior High, Roger later attended, Shippensburg, Long Island University, Temple University Wow, from Brooklyn-Lionville's One Room School-Chalfont. After Graduating from Central Bucks in 65, I attended Shippensburg for 4 terms, took a break and worked in the buying office for Lit Brothers in Philadelphia. I was drafted into the Army and completed basic at Fort Knox. I was not sent to AIT but instead to The Air Defense Command for San Francisco at Travis Air Force Base. (yes the Army is Funny) after 7+ months of Nike-Hercules Missile operations, I was sent to Vietnam, I arrived in Cameron Bay not having a valid Military Occupational Specialty, (I had never been to AIT) I was then sent to the 4th Infantry Division in Pleiku, which is in the Central Highlands of Vietnam. At first they were going to assign me as an 11B20 which is infantry lite weapons soldier but realized I had no AIT (advanced Individual Training) So they sent me to be interviewed for the Tactical Operations Center. I was given the duty of working with a senior officer to improve the information given to the Commanding General. That officer left and I continued preparing the daily briefing and related reports. Since we were an Infantry Division we were required to take an active roll in securing our area. We routinely were taken by truck or sometimes schnook (helicopter) to distant areas to sweep the area (walk thru it) looking for caches of food or weapons. Of course perimeter guard was an every other day duty. My tour was one year. I feel very fortunate to come home safely. Although we were support troops several in my company were killed or wounded during defoliation missions, on sweeps or just from the regular rocket attacks our camp was subjected too. Next step was to finish College. I went back to Brooklyn and completed my BS in Marketing, an...Expand for more