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Mike Roulier
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Email address: mike@roulier.us
Birthdate: Feb 27, 1947
Family
Married? yes Married years? 8 Married times?
Children: 2 boys; 1 girl; 6 grandkids
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| Mike Roulier in Kandahar |
Job
Company: US Army
Career/Job Title: Aviation Safety Officer
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Hobbies: Music, golf, reading, travel
Community:
How are you the same as you were at CHS? Still love to read and learn, still lousy at sports!
How are you different? Never thought I would ever have the self confidence that flying combat helicopters would give me.
What is your proudest accomplishment? Helping to take my last three combat units (Vietnam, Afghanistan and Iraq) through their deployments with no accidents
Where do you live? condo
Parents: Father: deceased, Mother: deceased
What have you been up to for the last 45 years?
Well, the last forty years have been nothing if not eventful. My first attempt at college after graduation was a failure (way too much attention to my burgeoning rock star career and Coors beer). After a summer playing bass guitar in Greenwich Village, I enlisted in the Army to become a helicopter pilot.
As I write this (early September, 2004), I am at the National Training Center, Fort Irwin, California, an Army reservist in my 39th year of service (12 active, the rest as a reservist). Along the way, I flew two tours in Vietnam, and have recently served as an aviation safety officer for the 82nd Airborne Division in Afghanistan, and the 3d Armored Cavalry Regiment in Al Asad, Iraq, as part of the Global War on Terror.
My civilian career has primarily been in the public sector. When I was deployed to Afghanistan in 2002, I was serving on Oregon Governor John Kithaber's staff.
My marriage to the beautiful Donna is more happiness than I ever thought I would have (or deserve ? I guess the third time is the charm!), and I am blessed with wonderful children, six precious grandchildren, and my beloved Yorkshire terriers, Beau and Katie.
In my spare time (that is, when I am not in these wonderful and exotic locations), I work on my golf game, get regularly beaten by my wife in bowling, and perform as a vocalist with the Portland dinner theater group, Cabaret Magnifique.
The immediate future probably holds one more deployment, before the Army finally kicks me out on what they euphemistically refer to as my "mandatory removal date," which occurs in a little over two years.
After that, it will be time for lots of travel, time spent with grandchildren, and a last, but mostly futile I'm sure, attempt to get my golf game under control.