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Mike Mullen

United States admiral
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Michael Glenn Mullen
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October 4, 1946, Los Angeles, California, U.S. (age 78)

Mike Mullen (born October 4, 1946, Los Angeles, California, U.S.) is a U.S. Navy admiral who served as the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (2007–11). 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 ...(100 of 477 words)

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