Lee Milliner will be assuming the position of the director of the Camp Lejeune extended campus, on Dec. 17, 2007. Milliner is retiring from the Navy after 26 years of active service.Milliner is looking forward to the challenge and has new ideas to promote the program.”With the multiple deployments due to the war in Iraq, our student population at Camp Lejeune has been impacted,” said Milliner. “We will need to target our non-deploying population, high school graduates and community college students who wish to complete their four-year degree.”He explained the projected growth of the military population at Camp Lejeune in the next five years will be over 20,000 people. With this growth and the potential end of the large numbers of Marines deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan, they can expect the student body to increase.Milliner has been involved with the extended campus program for about nine years as an adjunct instructor. “During this time, I have referred hundreds if not thousands over this period of time to the Campbell campus at Camp Lejeune,” he said. “I know so many success stories of Marines and Sailors and spouses of military members who have earned their degrees at Camp Lejeune and gone on to make a significant impact in the military or as a civilian. The availability of a four-year degree opportunity in the Jacksonville area with evening classes for working students is a plus to the community.” Milliner served as a Navy chaplain for 26 years. He has served with the Marines for 18 years which includes a one-year combat tour to Iraq. During his tour to Iraq he was the Senior Chaplain for Multi-National Force-West Iraq which included over 95 chaplains of all faiths and over 100 chaplain assistants. He is currently serving as the Command Chaplain, Marine Corps Installations East and Camp Lejeune and retires on Nov. 30, 2007.”I have been assigned to Camp Lejeune four times and each time I have taught at the Lejeune campus,” said Milliner. “I know personally the lives that have been changed due to the accessibility of this campus and its programs to our military families and local residents. I have the greatest respect and appreciation for our military members who go into harm’s way at their nation’s call, for the sacrifices made by each military member and his or her family and the local community that supports them with pride. I want to continue to make a difference in the lives of these young men and women and in the community which so faithfully and diligently supports them.”Photo Copy: Lee Milliner, the new director of Campbell University’s Camp Lejeune extended campus education program.
New director at Campbell’s Lejeune extended campus