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Franklin Douglas “Doug” Miller

1945–2000

Command Sergeant Major (retired; Medal of Honor action as Staff Sergeant, 5th Special Forces Group)

U.S. Army; 1st Cavalry Division (Vietnam, from Mar 1966); later 5th Special Forces Group, 1st Special Forces (long-range reconnaissance; Laos/Cambodia border patrols); Medal of Honor action January 1970; retired 1992

Documented decorations

Franklin Douglas “Doug” Miller’s Silver Star, two Bronze Stars, and six Purple Hearts are named in the Department of Veterans Affairs’ #VeteranOfTheDay career-award list. This decorations page records those three types from that VA sentence. The same VA profile also records his Medal of Honor for the January 1970 long-range patrol fight; under the register’s Murphy rule, that Medal of Honor is not re-badged as a fourth decorations-row symbol here.

Born January 1945 in Elizabeth City, North Carolina, and raised partly in Albuquerque, Miller joined the Army in February 1965, served with the 1st Cavalry Division in Vietnam, then transferred into Special Forces. The VA account describes his seven-man patrol under attack after a booby trap, his solo contact with a platoon-sized force, and the fighting that followed while wounded. He retired as a command sergeant major in 1992, later worked as a VA benefits counselor, and died in June 2000. The Silver Star, two Bronze Stars, and six Purple Hearts are the published decoration names on this row.

This name is not yet on a war-roll essay. The decorations above are the documented public record this register will stand on until that essay is written.

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