How old is Captain Miller?
Let’s apply some reverse engineering. He’s been in the Rangers since the North Africa campaign. That’s means he probably joined the Army shortly after Pearl Harbor. Let’s say he’s been in nearly three years. Then he said he taught high school for eleven years. He might have taught somewhere else before then, but let’s just leave his teaching career at eleven. He was probably no younger than 22 when he finished college. That makes him about 36 at the youngest. By way of contrast, James Gavin, who was the assistant division commander of the 82nd Airborne at Normandy, was a Lieutenant General at age 36.
