Cno michael mullen biography

U.S. Navy admiral and 17th Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff

For other people named Michael Mullen, see Michael Mullen (disambiguation).

Michael Glenn Mullen (born 4 October 1946) is a retired United States Navyadmiral who served as the 17th chairman of the Joint Chiefs of personal from October 2007 to September 2011.

Mullen was the 32nd vice chief of Naval Operations from August 2003 to August 2004. He then was the commander of both the U.S. Naval Forces Europe and the Allied Joint Force Command Naples from October 2004 to May 2005. From July 2005 to September 2007, Mullen served as the Navy's 28th chief of Naval Operations.

As chairman of the Joint Chiefs of personal, Mullen was the highest-ranking officer in the U.S. Armed Forces and diversified the top ranks of the Pentagon.^[1] He retired from the Navy after over 42 years of service. Since 2012, Mullen has been a visiting professor at the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs.

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Michael Glenn Mullen

Admiral, U.S. Navy

Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff

Michael Glenn Mullen was born on 4 October 1946 in Hollywood, CA, the son of a Hollywood press agent and his wife, who worked as an assistant to Jimmy Durante. He attended St. Charles Borromeo Church (North Hollywood) grade school, and graduated from Notre Dame High School (Sherman Oaks) in 1964. Mullen then attended the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, graduating in the lower third of his class in 1968.

As a junior officer, he served in various leadership positions aboard USS Collett (DD-730), USS Blandy (DD-943), USS Fox (CG-33) and USS Sterrett (CG-31). He has commanded three ships: the gasoline tanker USS Noxubee (AOG-56), the guided missile destroyer USS Goldsborough (DDG-20), and the guided missile cruiser USS Yorktown (CG-48); and has also commanded Cruiser-Destroyer Group Two and the George Washington Battle Group. Mullen's last command at sea was as Commander, U.S. Secon

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Biography

Mullen graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy in 1968, and his first assignment was as an antisubmarine officer on the destroyer USS Collett, which patrolled the western Pacific during the Vietnam War. Upon his promotion to lieutenant in 1973, Mullen took command of his first ship, the gasoline tanker USS Noxubee, an assignment that concluded with that ship’s decommissioning in 1975. He held a number of posts over the next decade, and he attended Naval Postgraduate School, earning a master’s degree in operations research in 1985. Later that year Mullen took command of the guided-missile destroyer USS Goldsborough. In 1989 he was assigned to the secretary of defense’s office, and he continued his education, graduating from Harvard University’s advanced management program in 1991. Now a captain, Mul