Retired Marine 2-star general found dead at sprawling California base

The Naval Prison Investigative Service is trying into the circumstances surrounding the demise of a retired main basic whose physique was found at a Marine base on Saturday.

Maj. Gen. William Mullen, age 59, was discovered deceased on the Marine Corps Air Floor Fight Middle, Twentynine Palms, California, the San Bernardino County coroner’s workplace confirmed.

His physique was present in Constructing 1651, in response to coroner data, Mililtary.com reported. The constructing is house to the Marine Corps Communication-Electronics Faculty, in response to an internet base listing.

The Marine Corps offered a press release to Marine Corps Occasions stating that Mullen was on the base attending the Marine Corps Ways and Operations Group (MCTOG) change of command ceremony.

The retired main basic was as soon as the commanding basic of the Marine Air Floor Activity Drive Coaching Middle in Twentynine Palms, California, and retired from the Corps in 2020, in response to the Los Angeles Occasions.

The Marine Corps additionally confirmed to Marine Corps Occasions that the Naval Prison Investigative Service was investigating the incident.

NCIS was unable to be reached for remark.

The San Bernardino County Coroner’s Division is dealing with the post-mortem and outcomes are pending, a spokeswoman confirmed.

As a commanding officer of the Fleet Anti-Terrorism Safety Workforce Firm, Mullen deployed to Operation Desert Protect and took half in counter-narcotics missions together with Joint Activity Drive-6, in response to his official biography. He later deployed with the twenty sixth Marine Expeditionary Unit as a commanding officer of Fox Firm and joined Operation Sea Sign, a 1994 army response to Cuban and Haitian refugees looking for asylum.

He deployed to Fallujah, Iraq, in 2005 as operations officer for Regimental Fight Workforce – 8. In 2007, he commanded 2nd Battalion, sixth Marines, additionally in Fallujah.

On the time of his demise, Mullen was serving because the commanding basic of Coaching and Training Command, based mostly in Quantico, Virginia, in response to the Corps.

Mullen’s “devoted service to our nation and the Marine Corps will all the time be remembered,” Maj. Gen. Thomas Savage, the commanding basic of the Marine Air Floor Activity Drive Coaching Command, stated in a press release offered to Marine Corps Occasions by the Marine Corps.

Reached by cellphone on Friday, a number of members of Mullen’s household declined to remark to the media.