National EMS Memorial Service Honoree

	Brian Miller Southwest Med Evac Las Cruces, NM

Brian was a committed flight nurse who loved what he did.

He was an awesome and aspiring guy to be around, with a quirky sense of humor that always made you laugh. He had touched fate once before when his motorcycle crashed, but I can hear him now…"hey, I was doing what I loved right up to the very end", said Terri Smith, co-worker from Denver City EMs. "Brian liked helping and caring for people in need, "stated Greg Beaty, base coordinator for Medevac.

Brian Miller, 44, of Roswell, New Mexico, was killed in the line of duty on August 5, 2007. He was one of a three-person team aboard a medical plane that departed from Sierra Blanca Regional Airport conducting a patient transport. The air ambulance crashed in the rugged mountainous terrain in Devil's Canyon, located in Lincoln National Forest. There were no survivors.

Miller, who joined Southwest Medevac in 2006, had been a nurse since 1997. He became a firefighter in 1989, and worked for the Carlsbad, New Mexico Fire Department. In 1994 he became a paramedic, and then worked to the status of RN.

"Brian was an amazing person. He overcame disability from two motorcycle accidents and still kept riding. He loved both riding motorcycles and being a fight nurse. I know he will continue to do both in the beautiful blue heavens," stated Kristi Stuard, ER nurse in Roswell.

Honored 2008