Twice along their route, they were forced to use demolitions to remove boulders blocking the road. On January 25, 2008, ODA 3312 embarked on a pre-dawn joint combat patrol with Afghan National Security Forces in the Kunar Province near the Pakistan border. Miller was inducted as a Laureate of The Lincoln Academy of Illinois and awarded the Order of Lincoln (the State's highest honor) by the Governor of Illinois in 2012 in the area of Government. Miller's special skill decorations include: Special Forces Tab, Ranger Tab and Parachutist Badge. He is buried at All Faiths Memorial Park in Casselberry, Florida. His unit was conducting combat operations near the village of Barikowt, Nari District, Kunar Province, Afghanistan. Miller was killed in combat with the Taliban in Afghanistan on January 25, 2008. In October 2007, he returned to Afghanistan for his second tour as weapons sergeant for his team. After returning stateside, he attended and completed Ranger School. Teammates recalled that he epitomized the Special Forces soldier "Him just spending time, not just time training but time after the sun goes down, drinking chai with them, eating, speaking with them in Pashto.He was what I pictured a Special Forces soldier ". While his language training was in French, he also learned to speak Pashto to better communicate with their Afghan Allies. During this deployment, Miller received two Army Commendation Medals with Valor device for his courage under fire. Miller deployed to Afghanistan in support of Operation Enduring Freedom from August 2006 to March 2007, which spanned both Consolidation I and Consolidation II. He was assigned the same day to Company A, 3rd Battalion, 3rd Special Forces Group (Airborne), Fort Bragg, North Carolina. Miller received his Special Forces Tab and was promoted to sergeant after graduating from the Special Operations French Language Training Course, September 30, 2005. Miller graduated from the Special Forces Assessment and Selection phase on September 26, 2004, and the Special Forces Weapons Sergeant Course on March 4, 2005. He enlisted as a Special Forces trainee on Augand graduated from Infantry Basic Training and Airborne School at Fort Benning, Georgia, on January 6, 2004.
He attended one year at University of Iowa before deciding to join the Army.
His family had a tradition of military service stretching back to the Revolutionary War.
Miller was born in Pennsylvania, the second of eight children, and grew up in Illinois. Robert James Miller (Octo– January 25, 2008) was a United States Army Special Forces soldier who posthumously received the Medal of Honor for his actions during the War in Afghanistan. Company A, 3rd Battalion, 3rd Special Forces Group
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