President Barack Obama, Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta, and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Admiral Mike Mullen, sent that certification to Congress on July 22, 2011, which set the end of DADT for September 20, 2011.

On May 4, 2008, while Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Admiral Mike Mullen addressed the graduating cadets at West Point, a cadet asked what would happen if the next administration were supportive of legislation allowing gays to serve openly.

In 1991, Mullen joined the high-profile skateboarding team Plan B. Mike Ternasky, the owner of Plan B, influenced Mullen to transition from freestyle to street skating, and showcased his skills in the 1992 Plan B video Questionable.

In 2010, Kristol criticized the Obama administration and Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Admiral Mike Mullen for an unserious approach to Iran.

Past honorees have included: Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz ( 2002 ), Senator Joe Lieberman ( 1997 ), Senator Max Cleland ( 2000 ), then-Defense Secretary Dick Cheney ( 1991 ), all three Secretaries of the U. S. Armed Services ( 2001 ), Congresswoman Jane Harman and Congressman Jim Saxton ( 2003 ), Indiana Senator Evan Bayh ( 2004 ), Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Peter Pace ( USMC ) ( 2005 ), Senator John McCain ( 2006 ), Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates ( 2007 ), Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Admiral Mike Mullen ( 2008 ), and ( 2009 ) all five chiefs of the U. S. Armed Forces and the Commander of the U. S. Special Operations Command ( U. S. Army Chief of Staff Gen. George W. Casey, Jr .; U. S. Marine Corps Commandant Gen. James T. Conway ; U. S. Navy Chief of Naval Operations Admiral Gary Roughead ; Coast Guard Commandant Adm. Thad W. Allen ; Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. Norton A. Schwartz ; Commander of U. S. Special Operations Command U. S. Navy Adm. Eric T.

* Mike Mullen, United States Navy Admiral

Guitarists Terrance Hobbs and Doug Cerrito, along with drummer Mike Smith, former members of a local band Mortuary that disbanded at the time, joined Suffocation and created a new lineup with Mullen, Hobbs, Smith, Cerrito and Barohn.

With Admiral Mike Mullen set to retire as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff in September 2011, President Obama needed to select his replacement.

In August 2011 General Dempsey was confirmed by unanimous consent to succeed Admiral Mike Mullen as the next Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.

On November 10, 2007, he became the third American-born player ( Joe Mullen and Mike Modano were the first two ) to score 500 goals.

Roenick became the third American-born player to reach the 500-goal plateau, joining Mike Modano and Joe Mullen.

This team later became known as the Bones Brigade and came to include other Florida skaters of the 70s such as Mike McGill, inventor of the 540 aerial or " McTwist " in 1984, and Rodney Mullen who during the 1980s helped foster the ollie for use on flat ground.

Two people wearing hockey masks kidnap the player and takes them to a dark room with other skaters including the player's rival Eric Sparrow from the previous game, as well as professional skaters Bob Burnquist, Mike Vallely, Eric Koston, Rodney Mullen, and Chad Muska.

Team Hawk then performs a death-defying stunt called the " Equalizer " to tie up with Team Bam and is successful, but team members Mike Vallely, Chad Muska and Rodney Mullen are arrested by the cops for stealing ( and crashing ) the helicopter used for the stunt, leaving only the player and Tony Hawk for the final leg of the Tour: Skatopia, in the backwoods of Ohio, defined by Tony as " the skateboarding Mecca ".

Mike Vallely, Rodney Mullen, Bob Burnquist, Chad Muska, Tony Hawk, Bam Margera, Eric Koston, Paulie " The Wheels Of Fury " Ten-Year Old Skating Madman, Custom Skater, and Eric Sparrow are the main ones.

Carlesimo ( Head Basketball Coach 1976-1982 ), former Marquette University and Wagner Head Coach Mike Deane who is currently an Assistant Men's Basetball Coach at James Madison University, Jim Lee Howell ( Head Football Coach 1947-1953 ), and current Mississippi State University Head Football Coach Dan Mullen ( Assistant Football Coach 1994-1995 ).

Penguins ' play-by-play announcer Mike Lange nicknamed Mullen " Slippery Rock Joe " for his ability to evade opposing players.

* Mike Mullen ( Moribund )-live bass ( 2003 )

In 1988, Rocco was joined by skater, Rodney Mullen, and then Mike Vallely in 1989.

Among the endless list of famous skateboarders who appear in the film as Stunt Skaters include Mike McGill, " Gator " Mark Rogowski, Rodney Mullen, Rich Dunlop, Eric Dressen, Lance Mountain, Mike Vallely, Chris Black, Ted Ehr, Natas Kaupas, Chris Borst, and Steve Saiz.

* The Young and the Restless: Mike Denney, Director ; Kathryn Foster, Director ; Noel Maxam, Director ; Sally McDonald, Director ; Marc Beruti, Associate Director ; Christopher Mullen, Associate Director ; Robbin Phillips, Associate Director ; Jennifer Scott, Associate Director ; Tom McDermott, Stage Manager ; Herbert A. Weaver, Jr., Stage Manager

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Mike Muuss ( left ) at the Ballistic Research Laboratory, using BRL-CAD to develop an M1 Abrams | M1 prototype, with Earl Weaver ( right ).

Current NASCAR President Mike Helton ( left ) being presented a Commandant of the Coast Guard | Commandant Challenge coin | Coin by Admiral Thomas H. Collins ( right ) in 2005.

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Simon Gagné | Simon Gagne, placed on a line with Peter Forsberg and Mike Knuble, scored a career high 47 goals during the 2005 – 06 season.

Former head coach Mike Brown ( basketball, born 1970 ) | Mike Brown, who was NBA Coach of the Year for 2008 – 09, and was the head coach of the Eastern Conference for the 2009 NBA All Star Game | 2009 All Star Game.

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Einsteinium was first identified in December 1952 by Albert Ghiorso and co-workers at the University of California, Berkeley in collaboration with the Argonne and Los Alamos National Laboratories, in the fallout from the Ivy Mike nuclear test.

Greenpeace rejected the accusations and challenged PIW to disclose its funders, a request rejected by then-Executive Director of PIW, Mike Hardiman, because PIW does not have 501c3 tax exempt status like Greenpeace does in the U. S. The IRS conducted an extensive review and concluded in December 2005 that Greenpeace USA continued to qualify for its tax-exempt status.

In December the Astros traded OF Luke Scott, RHP Matt Albers, RHP Dennis Sarfate, LHP Troy Patton, and minor-league 3B Mike Costanzo, to the Baltimore Orioles for SS Miguel Tejada.

In December 2008, machinima. com signed fifteen experienced television comedy writers — including Patric Verrone, Bill Oakley, and Mike Rowe — to produce episodes for the site.

On December 12, they arrived at Mesa AZ and stayed with Mourad Jdaaini and Mike Khalaf.

The ping utility was authored by Mike Muuss in December 1983 as a tool to troubleshoot problems in an IP network.

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The Co-chairs of the Green Party of the United States are currently ( 2010 December ): Theresa El-Amin ( NC ), Mike Feinstein ( CA ), Farheen Hakeem ( MN ), Julie Jacobson ( HI ), Jason Nabewaniec ( NY ), David Strand ( MN ), and Craig Thorsen ( CA ).

* December 2 – Vietnam War: After a trip to Vietnam at the request of U. S. President John F. Kennedy, U. S. Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield becomes the first American official to make a non-optimistic public comment on the war's progress.

* December 2 – Mike Larrabee, American athlete ( d. 2003 )

* On December 4, 2008, about 11 newsroom employees were laid-off, with one sports columnist, Mike Downey, having departed several weeks earlier when his contract was not renewed.

According to Van Vliet, the 28 songs on the album were written in a single 8½ hour session at the piano, an instrument which he had no skill in playing, an approach Mike Barnes compared to John Cage's " maverick irreverence toward classical tradition ", though band members have stated that the songs were written over the course of about a year, beginning around December 1967.

Feeling humiliated for being left in the net after having let in nine goals in 26 shots during a Canadiens game against the Red Wings, Roy joined the Avalanche on December 6, 1995, together with ex-Montreal captain Mike Keane in a trade for Jocelyn Thibault, Martin Rucinsky and Andrei Kovalenko.

A recording of Bill Anders, made during the Apollo 8 lunar orbit, on December 24, 1968, reading from the Bible ( Genesis, Chapter 1 ) is included on the first track (" In The Beginning ") of the Mike Oldfield album The Songs of Distant Earth, with verses repeated again in the second track (" Let There Be Light ").

Following a December 1966 recording session in which he was involved in a heated argument with Mike Love ( who vehemently criticized his lyrics for the song " Cabin Essence ") Parks ' involvement in SMiLE effectively ceased and he officially withdrew from the project in early 1967.

* Adapted by Mike Kenny and directed by Gail McIntyre The Snow Queen was performed at West Yorkshire Playhouse, Leeds from 5 December 2008 to 10 January 2009.

, the Mayor of the Borough of Fair Haven is Benjamin Lucarelli, who was chosen in February 2012 to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Mike Halfacre, whose term of office ends on December 31, 2014, and who left office to take a position in the New Jersey Division of Alcoholic Beverage Control, with Eric R. Jaeger in turn chosen in March 2012 to fill Lucarelli's vanacy on thee Borough Council.

Members of the township committee are Mayor Nanette Harrington ( R ; term ends December 31, 2011 ), Deputy Mayor Mike Mazzucco ( R ; 2013 ), Jerry Aroneo ( R ; 2012 ), Guy Piserchia ( R ; 2012 ) and George Vitureira ( R ; 2011 ).

According to Mike Evans in his book Ray Charles: The Birth of Soul ( 2007 ), the singer developed his hit " What'd I Say " as part of an after-show jam in Brownsville in December 1958.

The first burial took place on December 25 ; Mr. and Mrs. Mike Ferrell buried their infant daughter Margaret Mabel Farrell.

Under a plan devised by Alistair Irwin and approved by General Sir Mike Jackson, on 16 December 2004 it was announced that the Black Watch was to join with five other Scottish regiments-the Royal Scots, the King's Own Scottish Borderers, the Royal Highland Fusiliers, The Highlanders and the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders-to form the Royal Regiment of Scotland, a single regiment consisting of 5 regular and 2 territorial battalions.

On 13 December, Smolensky and production director Mike Penny resigned as directors of Blackpool Automotive, being replaced by Smolensky UK personal assistant Roger Billinghurst and 25-year-old Austrian Angelco Stamenkov.

On 21 December 2010, Buckingham Palace announced her engagement to rugby union player Mike Tindall, who plays for Premiership side Gloucester and the England national team.

" On December 1, 2011, Mike D ' Antonio posted online that Killswitch Engage should be entering the studio around February / March 2012 to record their sixth album expected around summer 2012.