Stationed in Texas as a second lieutenant, he met Mamie Geneva Doud, whom he married in 1916.

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He was commissioned a second lieutenant and served two tours of duty in Vietnam, where he received three Silver Stars.

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Mullins was a Second Lieutenant with the U.S. Army, stationed at Fort Benning, Ga. in 1989 when he self-released his first cassette of original songs.

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Our officers got hit so soon and so often that it seemed to me the position of second lieutenant in a rifle company had been made obsolete by modern warfare.

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Tull enlisted in the army in 1914, rose to become a 2nd Lieutenant and died in the Second Battle of the Somme in 1918.

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