NCIS INVESTIGATES-- Maj. Gen. William F. Mullen III, USMC-- FULL CAREER BIO, DESERT SUN, 2016

Full text of Maj. Gen. Career Bio:

The Desert Sun Military: 

Obama Promotes Commanding General, 

by Denise Goolsby, 12 June 2016, page 11A.

     He was commissioned via the Naval Reserve Officers Training Corps (NROTC) program at Marquette University in 1986. He was assigned to 1st Battalion, 3rd Marines in Kaneohe Bay, Hawaii, where he served as a rifle and weapons platoon commander and Battalion training officer from 1987 to 1990.

     Mullen transferred to the Marine Corps Security Force Battalion, Pacific at Mare Island, Calif. where he served as a platoon commander, executive officer and Commanding Officer of the Fleet Anti-Terrorism Security Team Company from 1990 to 1993. During this period he deployed to Operation Desert Shield and participated in several counter-narcotics missions in support of Joint Task Force-6, and also served as the Battalion training officer.

     After attending the Advanced Artillery Officer course at Fort Sill, Oklahoma in 1993, he was transferred to 2nd Battalion, 4th Marines (later converted to 2nd Battalion, 6th Marines) at Camp Lejeune, N.C., and was assigned as the Commanding Officer of Fox Company. He participated in Operation Sea Signal in 1994, and deployed to the 26th Marine Expeditionary Unit from 1995 to 1996 with the small boat raid and cliff assault company.

     From 1996 to 1999 he served as the Inspector instructor for Fox Company, 2nd Battalion, 24th Marines in Milwaukee, Wis. During this time period he led a successful counter-narcotics mission in the Los Padres National Forma of California. In early 1999 he was selected to he the Marine Aide to the President. He served in that capacity until he was selected to attend the School of Advanced Warfighting in not. After school. he reported to the Joint Operations Division of the Joint Staff. J-3 for duty in the U.S. Pacific Command (PACOM) and U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) sections. He then served as the Executive Assistant to the Deputy Director for Regional Operations until 2004. In 2004 he reported to the 2nd Marine Division at Camp Lejeune, N.C. for duty as the Division Plans Officer. 

     In late 2004 he was chosen to be the Operations Officer for Regimental Combat Team - 8, with whom he deployed to Fallujah, Iraq from 2005 to 2006. Upon returning from deployment he assumed command of 2nd Battalion, 6th Marines, and returned to Fallujah, Iraq in 2007. Since July 2012 he has served as the Commanding General, Education Command and President, Marine Corps University, as part of the Marine Corps Combat Development Command at Quantico, Va. Brig. Gen. Mullen holds a Bachelor of Arts and Master of Arts in Political Science from Marquette University, as well as a Master of Arts in National Security and Strategic Studies from the Naval War College. He is a graduate of the Airborne, Ranger, Summer Mountain Leader and Royal Marine Arctic Warfare Survival courses. 

     Mullen co-wrote a book with Daniel Green called "Fallujah Redux: The Anbar Awakening and the Struggle with Al-Qaeda." Published in 2014, the book "details the U.S. military's conflict with the Iraqis in Al-Anbar province, specifically the city of Fallujah during Operation Iraqi Freedom." The authors describe how U.S. forces captured Fallujah in 2003. The city was then taken by insurgent groups, which re-quired the U.S. military to retake the city in 2004.