Lt. General John F. Mulholland Jr was the former U.S. Special Operations Command Deputy Commander named new Associated Director for Military Affairs at CIA.
Statement to Employees by CIA Director John Brennan on the Selection of Lieutenant General John F. Mulholland Jr. as Associate Director for Military Affairs
January 7, 2015
Colleagues,
We are very fortunate to have Lieutenant General John F. Mulholland Jr. as our new Associate Director for Military Affairs. John previously served as Deputy Commander of the United States Special Operations Command, a post for which he was exceptionally well-qualified by virtue of a distinguished career in the US Army’s Special Forces. He commanded special operations task forces in both Operation Enduring Freedom and Operation Iraqi Freedom, earning an appointment as Deputy Commanding General of the Joint Special Operations Command and later as Commanding General, US Army Special Operations Command at Ft. Bragg.
John’s long and outstanding record of service in special operations has given him a deep understanding of the conduct and value of intelligence, and many of our officers know him as a close partner and good friend. I look forward to working with John and benefitting from his insights as we confront the wide array of complex global challenges facing our Agency.
Please join me in welcoming General Mulholland to CIA and wishing him well in his new post.
John
Source: CIA
Note: Mulholland was commissioned into active duty as a second lieutenant through the Reserve Officers’ Training Corps in 1978 and was posted with the 193rd Infantry Brigade in the Panama Canal Zone. He was then moved into Special Forces after graduating the Special Forces Qualification Course at Fort Bragg, NC and joined the 5th Special Forces Group. He remained in the 5th Special Forces Group, where he served as ODA, Company, Battalion/Squadron and Group commander within the Special Forces. In 2001 at the beginning of the War on Terror Mulholland became commander of Task Force Dagger part of Joint Special Operations Task Force North during Operation Enduring Freedom in Afghanistan. In August 2003, he was re-assigned to chief of the Office of Military Cooperation in Kuwait. Afterwards served as the commander of Coalition-Joint Task Force West and then Coalition-Joint Task Force-Arabian Peninsula during Operation Iraqi Freedom. He was then promoted to commander of U.S. Army Special Forces Command from August 2005 until July 2006. From August 2006 until June 2007 he was the Deputy Commander of Joint Special Operations Command at Fort Bragg, NC. On June 22, 2007 he assumed command of Special Operations Command Central (SOCCENT) at MacDill AFB, FL. He then served four years as the commander of United States Army Special Operations Command from November 7, 2008 until July 24, 2012.
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