SFC Leslie McMillion

SFC McMillion entered the Army in 1971 where he began his career as a military policeman at Fort Dix, New Jersey with the 42^nd MP Co. that was known as The Ghosts Company.

His military police career was started with 1^st Army, where he moved on to 2^nd division, to later serve three tours in Germany with 3^rd Infantry Division. As a military policeman he has served with Hawk Missile Battalion and also assigned to 194^th Armor Brigade at Fort Knox, Kentucky. His many years of service have taken him to Korea, Germany, Turkey, Saudi Arabia, and Iraq. He is a veteran of Desert Shield and Desert Storm. He ended his career at Fort Stewart, Georgia with the 24^th Infantry Division with the motto, “First to Fight.” SFC McMillion’ s platoon was the farthest deployed MP platoon in Iraq where he got the nickname Trouble Shooter for missions leading up to the start of Desert Storm.

After retiring from the military he went on to work as a Correctional Officer and earned a degree in Criminal Justice.

In 2012, he retired from his second career with the Department of Corrections of Ohio. He then moved from Lima, Ohio to settle down in Nacogdoches to be close to his granddaughter, daughter, Ms Sonnie Mosier, and son-in-law.

Men’s Basketball game 22 Feb 2014 @ 6pm versus Northwestern State University