Meet Drew

Andrew J. Mullins

Andrew “Drew” Mullins
Retired U.S. Nave SEAL, and HUMINT Operations Officer

Andrew Jackson Mullins served 23 years in the SEAL Teams and as a member of a Special Mission Unit. Mr. Mullins rose through the ranks to Master Chief and then was commissioned as a “Mustang” SEAL officer, Retiring as a Lieutenant. Upon leaving active duty Mr. Mullins returned to Afghanistan for a year as a Counter Insurgency and Inter-Agency Fusion Cell advisor for COMISAF Advisory and Assistance Team (CAAT). As a CAAT member Mr. Mullins helped identify the best and worst COIN practices and imbedded advisory assistance to commanders at all levels to enable effective, integrated COIN operations.

Since then, Mr. Mullins has worked for other government agencies in both operations and training capacity. During this time, he completed 14+ deployments, in Bosnia, Iraq, Afghanistan, and Somalia. These experiences were instrumental in seeing the nexus of problems that require both hard and soft power to solve.

Mr. Mullins earned his Bachelor of Art in History with a focus on 19th & 20th century Africa, Russia, and China, from the University of Mary Washington in 2019. Mr. Mullins is in the last semester of the Master of Arts in International Security Studies, from the School of Government & Public Policy, at the University of Arizona. Mr. Mullins’ focus is on conflict causes and resolution in the Middle East, and Sub-Saharan Africa, and Transnational Crime Organizations.