Army major working on safety degree during second tour in Iraq
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EVANSVILLE — Not much about Maj. Brad Miller’s life can really be considered safe while he serves a second tour of duty in Iraq with the Army Reserve.
But the Evansville native is nevertheless working on a master’s degree in occupational and environmental safety and health from the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater while serving there.
Miller is stationed in an area where combat continues to occur.
“It’s a fairly active neighborhood around here,” he said in a recent telephone interview. “It’s nothing at all like it was years ago. It’s very light activity compared to when I was here in 2005.
“That’s the good news. The bad news is we’re here in a disputed zone.”
That zone is in Al Kasik in northern Iraq, headquarters of the Third Iraqi Army Division.
There, Miller is company commander of a nine-person logistics team that advises the Iraqi Army on a daily basis.
“There’s no Groundhog Day that we have over here,” Miller said. “It’s really different every day.”
Back home, Miller is a safety and loss control manager and fleet manager for Cleary Building Corp. in Verona, a construction company with some 1,200 employees and 400 vehicles. His duties overseas, he said, relate to his profession.
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