Michael G. Mullen

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Admiral Michael Mullen

Michael Glenn Mullen (born October 4, 1946 in Los Angeles ) is a retired admiral . D. of the US Navy . From October 2007 to September 2011 he was chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff , making him the highest-ranking soldier in the US armed forces . Prior to that, he served as the 28th Chief of Naval Operations (CNO).

Military career

Mullen graduated from the United States Naval Academy in 1968. He completed his first missions at sea on the destroyers USS Collett (DD-730) and USS Blandy (DD-943) , and later on the two Belknap cruisers USS Fox (CG 33) and USS Sterett (CG 31) .

Mullen has commanded three ships in his career: the USS Noxubee (AOG-56) , USS Goldsborough (DDG-20) and the USS Yorktown (CG-48) . Later he was in command of the Cruiser-Destroyer Group Two and the combat group around the carrier USS George Washington (CVN 73) . His last command at sea was with the 2nd Fleet in the Atlantic. From August 2003 to August 2004, Mullen served as Vice Chief of Naval Operations under Adm . Vern Clark . In addition, from October 8, 2004 to May 23, 2005 he was in command of the US Naval Forces Europe . On July 22, 2005, he finally took over from Clark the post of Chief of Naval Operations (CNO).

On August 2, 2007, the agreed Armed Services Committee of the US Senate the nomination of Mullen as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff to. Therefore, on October 1, he took over from General Peter Pace , who, unusually, was not nominated for a second two-year term. Mullen was unanimously re-elected by Congress in 2009 for an additional two years and left office in late September 2011. His successor is US Army General Martin E. Dempsey . Among other things, his tenure was marked by the withdrawal of Don't ask, don't tell .

Awards

Excerpt, sorted according to the Order of Precedence of the Military Awards

Web links

Commons : Michael G. Mullen  - Album with pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ US Chief of Staff Pace must go (tagesschau.de archive) (Tagesthemen.de from June 9, 2007)
  2. ^ New chair of the Joint Chiefs is sworn in. Archived from the original on July 7, 2012 ; accessed on March 25, 2020 .
  3. ↑ [1]
  4. ↑ BMVg press release ( Memento from July 6, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 91 kB)
personal data
SURNAME Mullen, Michael G.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Mullen, Michael Glenn
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American military, United States Navy officer
DATE OF BIRTH October 4, 1946
PLACE OF BIRTH Los Angeles , USA