Kazuhira Miller

McDonell Benedict Miller (マクドネル・ベネディクト・ミラー), also known as Kazuhira Miller and Master Miller, was FOXHOUND's survival trainer during both Big Boss's and Roy Campbell's command of the unit. He was well-read and possessed a vast array of scientific knowledge.

Early life
Kazuhira Miller was born in America over sixty years after his grandparents immigrated to the U.S. from Japan. The child of an American GHQ officer returning to the United States and a Japanese woman, he was born during Japan's occupation by US military forces and was given the name "Kazuhira" - the Japanese name for "Peace." At first, his early life in Japan was a struggle, and many Japanese skinny children mocked him for his stunning light blue western eyes and beautiful ash blonde hair. His father left his mother some money before returning to the U.S. and she had to raise money for both Kaz and herself by selling cigarettes to American occupation soldiers. The STDs from being a prostitute caused his mother to develop a condition where she would eventually forget who her son even was. Miller knew he wanted to go to University, so he eventually sent a letter to his father in the US, requesting to travel there.

That wish was eventually granted and Kaz was picked up from his home, left his mother behind, and went to the U.S. to get an education. Kaz's father eventually committed suicide, but that didn't stop Kaz from completing school and earning his college degree in an Ivy League school. He then returned to Japan, only to find that his mother wasn't angry that he left her behind, she had simply forgotten who he was entirely. Shortly after returning, he joined the JSDF.

Unfortunately, life in the JSDF wasn't as glamorous as he had hoped. His skills as a policeman were unmatched, but his superiors often feared them and chose not to reward those skills, so he didn't rise through the ranks as quickly as one would expect. Furthermore, he longed for a more active battlefield than what life in Japan typically offered, so by the late 60s he finally decides to leave the JSDF. After his mother died, he began to drift around the world as a mercenary and a well known philanderer who loves the freedom of the 1970's.

Operation Peace Walker
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Miller's travels eventually led him to meet Big Boss (Naked Snake) in Colombia, where he was fighting for the rebels and Big Boss for the Colombian government. Big Boss had already wiped out all of Miller's unit, so Miller prepared to take his own life with a grenade and die fighting. Big Boss was impressed with his spirit, likening it to that of a samurai, and convinced him to instead join the Militaires Sans Frontieres. Miller played a vital role in the management of the MSF and supported Big Boss during his missions in Colombia. He brought over Paz Ortega Andrade and Ramón Gálvez Mena, who desired to see the Militaires Sans Frontieres, after making sure that they weren't followed by "their "friends" from Langley." Unlike Big Boss, he didn't really feel that being hired by Gálvez to repel the invasion of Costa Rica was a bad idea, especially with the offer of an offshore production facility in the Caribbean to use as a base (as their current base was in disrepair).

After Big Boss eventually agreed to take Galvez's offer, Miller started transmitting unidirectional signals to Snake relating to the mission from the offshore facility, which he referred to as the "Mother Base." After Big Boss managed to locate the Shipping Facility, Big Boss managed to find a radio in the Shipping Facility and contacted Miller. He explained that there were a few things out of place with the Shipping facility, as there were an unusually large amount of Film ID Badges, badges used in areas involving radiation, in the facility, and even the Radioman that he interrogated was wearing one, as well as the man he was talking to mentioned something about "Spears" being delivered in the cargo. Miller and Big Boss then realized that this would mean that this could mean only one thing: They were bringing nukes into Costa Rica. Miller was horrified when he deduced this.

He then suggested that Big Boss try and recruit a FSLN group that was ousted from Nicaragua to help in tracking down the supply route to the facility in Mount Irazu. Afterwards, he picked up Amanda Valenciano Libre, Chico, and Cécile Cosina Caminades after Snake discovered them. After it was learned that the man behind the invasion and the Peace Walker project, the CIA Station Chief of Central America Hot Coldman, was planning on using Peace Walker to launch a nuke towards the Mother Base, namely to poison the fish and crops so that mass production can begin but also to annihilate the MSF, Miller stated that Big Boss had to stop Peace Walker from arriving in Nicaragua. However, after that had failed, he considered evacuating Mother Base, but decided against it as the personnel believed in Big Boss.

Later on, he arrived with the majority of the MSF forces into Nicaragua to aid Big Boss in stopping the Peace Sentinels' plans. After joining forces with Amanda's FSLN group, they took down the Peace Sentinels, and arrested Gálvez, whose real name was Vladimir Zadornov, and a dying Coldman. Miller then attempted to lecture a distraught Paz in not picking up a gun unless she used it. He later discovered that Coldman activated Peace Walker, and not only was it going to be launched to Cuba (Vladimir had changed the false code earlier), but it also will transmit false missile trajectories to third parties all over the world, including NORAD and The Pentagon. He alerted Big Boss and Strangelove (who were on their way to the Peace Walker unit to find out the answers to why The Boss and Big Boss fought in Tselinoyarsk) about what happened, with Coldman dying before he could give the abort code (a factor he had taken into account), forcing Big Boss and Strangelove to destroy the Peace Walker unit.

After the fiasco ended, Miller, along with Huey Emmerich and Strangelove, suggested building Metal Gear Zeke, and Zadornov escaped for the sixth and last time, Big Boss told Kaz that Zadornov had an accomplice given his final words. Miller then notices Zeke moving on its own, implying that someone had hijacked it. Miller also noticed that Paz was acting strange, and then Paz revealed that she was a Cipher agent. After disabling Zeke and killing Paz, Miller apologized to Big Boss, as he apparently at least suspected what Paz and Galvez were up to all along, but didn't tell Big Boss sooner. It is later revealed that Kaz was apparently an agent of Cipher, as well as acting strictly as a business partner to Zero because he wanted to expand MSF. However, he presumably stopped working for Cipher altogether after the latter had apparently ordered Paz to launch a nuke at the East Coast to frame the Militaires Sans Frontieres as being an extremist cult should Big Boss refuse to rejoin Cipher.

Later Career
At some point, Miller parted ways with Big Boss, changed his first name to McDonell and later served as a survival master in the SAS, the Green Berets, a US Marine boot camp, and FOXHOUND. He also served in the FBI and went on to volunteer as a coach in a mercenary school twice a year before eventually retiring. During his time as a drill sergeant in FOXHOUND, he was referred to as "Hell Master" and draftees called him "Master Miller" with the utmost respect. It was there that he met and helped train Solid Snake. At some point in his life, Miller divorced his first wife, Nadine, and resided in Los Angeles with his daughter, Catherine.



Master Miller served as an adviser for FOXHOUND during Roy Campbell's days in the unit. During the Operation Intrude F014, Miller was reunited with and assisted Solid Snake. He helped by providing Snake with information on improving one's health, along with guidance on how to overcome the various obstacles he faced there.

By 2005, Miller had retired and had moved to Alaska to live in solitude, in a three story house with his huskies, occasionally helping to train the Alaskan scouts during his free time. However, three days prior to the Shadow Moses Incident, Miller was murdered in his home by an unknown assailant. Liquid Snake, FOXHOUND's leader during said incident, then assumed Miller's identity, posing as him in order to "aid" Solid Snake in his mission to Shadow Moses Island. He provided Snake with information on health, and on how to operate within the Alaskan environment. After Snake unwittingly activated Metal Gear REX, Liquid mockingly revealed his true identity to him.

Trivia

 * During Operation Intrude F014, Miller refered to his former friend, Big Boss, as a "monster", revealing that he eventually came to disagree with the latter's vision of Outer Heaven.
 * Miller had a bit of a womanizing problem. One time, he had gone out with two of the female members of the MSF at the exact same time, causing them to take it to Big Boss. Big Boss then read Miller the riot act (presumably as the latter's punishment for his womanizing behavior), leading Miller to argue with Big Boss which caused them to get into a brawl in the showers that Paz ended up witnessing.

Alternative History
''Some of the details of McDonell Miller's background were elaborated upon in official strategy guides and novelizations, written by various authors. As such, their canonicity in regards to the Metal Gear saga are unconfirmed.''

McDonell Miller was once placed in a POW camp in Vietnam, although he later managed to escape, decapitating the head interrogator in the process. While serving in FOXHOUND, Miller taught Solid Snake various forms of code over the radio, e.g. changing the frequency by claiming to change cigarette brands, as well as how to sense an enemy if sight alone couldn't help, and how to determine whether a person was lying by their eyes.

In 2005, Miller was murdered in his home by a nerve toxin.

Behind the Scenes

 * In the original MSX2 version of Metal Gear 2, Miller had a distinctly Asian appearance. In the re-releases, he was redesigned to resemble his appearance in Metal Gear Solid, with blond hair and sunglasses.
 * In the re-release of Metal Gear 2, Miller's first name was mistakenly spelled as "McDonnell."