Kevin Miller > Quotes

“So you’ve got the green light, Flip Wilson! Roger ball… Kick the fires… Hit the burner… Pull g’s… Do all that pilot stuff and do it well. We’re fine. We miss you tons, but lead those JOs to victory and bring everyone back soon! Love, Mary”
― Kevin Miller, Raven One

“Most of us, most of the time, live in blissful ignorance of what a small elite, heroic group of Americans are doing for us night and day. As we speak, all over the globe, American Sailors and Submariners and Aviators are doing something very dangerous. People say, ‘Well, it can’t be too dangerous because there are no wrecks.’ But the reason we don’t have more accidents is that these are superb professionals; the fact that they master the dangers does not mean the dangers aren’t real. Right now, somewhere around the world, young men are landing aircraft on the pitching decks of aircraft carriers – at night! You can’t pay people to do that; they do it out of love of country, of adventure, of the challenge. We all benefit from it, and the very fact that we don’t have to think about it tells you how superbly they’re doing their job — living on the edge of danger so the rest of us need not think about, let alone experience, danger.” George Will commenting after the loss of the
Space Shuttle Challenger, January, 1986”
― Kevin Miller, Raven One

“in this life, we are here to serve one another.”
― Kevin Miller, Raven One

“An unexpected and lethal jet of scalding water in the shower.”
― Kevin Miller, Raven One

“cast off from Yokosuka and head through the inland sea”
― Kevin Miller, Fight Fight

“the foul weather ahead—which would soon drench them.”
― Kevin Miller, Declared Hostile

“overhead. Enterprise planes at two thousand, and you Yorktowners at three.” Kroeger glanced at the faces next to him, many unfamiliar. Practically all of”
― Kevin Miller, The Silver Waterfall

“heard the rumble of a fighter engine.”
― Kevin Miller, High End

“pistol clip…”
― Kevin Miller, Raven One