Bishop Alvin E Miller Sr was born in Fort Pierce, Florida. He is a 1977 graduate of Fort Pierce Central High School where he was an All-State Football Player. In 1979, he led Eastern Kentucky University to winning the NCAA-1AA National Football Championship (the first in school history).
In time-honored tradition, the Colonel's Battalion formally commissioned new officers at the end of the spring 2017 semester. Cadets were formally commissioned in a ceremony with family and friends on Thursday, May 11, in O'Donnell Hall of EKU's Whitlock Building.
EKU Colonel's Battalion is pleased to announce their 2017 Distinguished Alum award recipient, Colonel (ret) Garrett (Gary) Bourne. Bourne will be honored at the annual ROTC awards ceremony at the end of the spring semester.
The ROTC Colonel Challenge of 2016 was held at the Challenge Course on August 14-16. New ROTC cadets worked together to complete the ropes course and various exercises, forming new bonds of not only comradery, but also professionalism.
Each summer, EKU ROTC Colonels Battalion sends cadets overseas for the Culture Understanding and Language Proficiency (CULP) program. For these ROTC cadets, the world became their classroom. This year, two cadets from Eastern participated in the CULP program.
It would be quite the feat to find an individual at Eastern Kentucky University more travelled than Lt. Col. Darell Robinson. The Chicago native has been stationed at more than a dozen locations, including Europe, the Middle East and the Far East.
