Michael Miller:  

Life I volunteered for the USArmy during my Senior year in high school, discovered JESUS just before graduation, enjoyed a wonderful summer with my then girlfriend whom I married a year later, and then went active duty. I spent four years in the USArmy Signal Corp, mostly in Heidelberg, Germany. During that time, my wife and I were blessed with our first son. I left the Army and went back home thinking my Army training could land me a good job. I spent the next year working multiple, non-career enhancing, odd jobs, just trying to survive. Thank God for families! My family that helped create me was helping the family God was helping me create, and my wife and I were blessed again this time with our second son. I rejoined the military and spent the next eleven years in the USNavy as an electronics technician. I spent tours of duty in Guam, Great Lakes, Illinois; Millington, Tennessee (where we were blessed with our third son) and where nobody can ever seem to get their fill of playing Softball (can you believe there is a LOT of Navy in TENNESSEE???); the Aircraft Carrier USS Ranger homeported at Naval Air Station North Island in Coronado, California; Port Hueneme, California; thirteen months of incredible duty at McMurdo Station, Williams Field, and Byrd Surface Camp, Antarctica (other than the separation from my family, Antarctica was incredible duty, as there is so little of anything down there, and yet, the beauty of what I saw, I just can't find the words to do justice of giving due credit to that spectacular part of God's world I miss SO much); Naval Submaring Base Bangor, Washington; and finally the Repair Ship USS Jason homeported at Naval Station San Diego, California; from where I eventually retired from the USNavy... I then moved my family up to Sa...Expand for more