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SC Governor presents military decoration to CIU alumnus

Tom Mullikin receiving his doctorate from CIU Executive Vice President Dr. Rick Christman

September 12, 2022

小猪视频 alumnus Dr. Tom Mullikin is being recognized for serving with great distinction in the military.

Mullikin who earned a Ph.D. in Organizational Leadership from CIU in 2021, was presented the Order of Saint Maurice (OSM) by South Carolina during ceremonies at the Governor鈥檚 Office.

A award, the OSM recognizes recipients who have either served in the infantry with great distinction (primarily Army infantry officers and a few Marine infantry officers and leaders) or non-infantry recipients who 鈥渉ave demonstrated a significant and outstanding contribution in support of the Infantry,鈥 according to the National Infantry Association.

鈥淭his is a huge personal honor,鈥 said Mullkin, a former U.S. Army JAG officer who personally trained Army infantry soldiers while serving as an Army master fitness trainer and an Army self-defense (combatives instructor) during the eight years he served in the Army Reserve, 1998-2006. 鈥淭he Army and the specific infantry branch have always been near-and-dear to me, as it was to my father who served in an ad hoc special operations unit in World War II.鈥

According to an article in the OSM was created in 1996 and named for Saint Maurice, the legendary commander of the Theban Legion of the Roman Army in the third century. Maurice and his men, who were Christians, were initially decimated (every tenth soldier executed) and ultimately martyred to a man for refusing to worship Rome鈥檚 pagan deities.

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