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Contact Info
Home Town Philadelphia, PA
Last Address Coronado, CA
Date of Passing Jan 21, 1999
Location of Interment U.S. Naval Academy Cemetery and Columbarium (VLM) - Annapolis, Maryland
Following his retirement from the Navy, Mustin was a member of the U.S. Olympic Committee for shooting sports and served as president of the National Rifle Association from 1977–1979.Besides that, he was active in the Coronado Community Church and enjoyed deep-sea fishing. On his 80th Birthday, he caught a 300-pound Marlin at Cabo San Lucas, Mexico.
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USS Mustin (DDG-89) is an Arleigh Burke-class guided missile destroyer in the United States Navy. She is named in honor of the Mustin family who have devoted over a century to U.S. Naval service.
Lloyd Mustin took part in developing the Navy's first lead-computing anti-aircraft gun sight, which proved of major importance in the air-sea actions of World War II, and he served on the cruiser USS Atlanta during the naval battle of Guadalcanal. His ship was lost during that action, and with other survivors he landed on Guadalcanal and served ashore with a naval unit attached to the First Marine Division. His postwar service included commands at sea and development and evaluation of weapon systems. He later served as director of operations for the Joint Chiefs of Staff during the Vietnam War.
Distinguished Service Medal:
"For exceptionally meritorious service...as Director for Operations, Joint Staff, Organization of the Joint Chief of Staff, from June 1964 to May 1967. As Head of the Operations Directorate - the instrument for direction of the unified and specified commands - Vice Admiral Mustin developed a highly efficient and responsive organization, capable of directing a major war effort, from a relatively untested structure. As a result of his keen and imaginative guidance, astute judgment, comprehensive knowledge and able administration, complex operational analyses were made, and strategic plans developed and implemented, for two critical national undertakings - intervention in the Dominican Republic crisis of 1965, and combat operations in Southeast Asia. Vice Admiral Mustin played a leading role in formulating the plans for the air campaign against North Vietnam, and was personally instrumental in developing a combat reporting system to support operational analyses, resulting in reduced aircraft losses. In other fields, he took the lead in refining the National Single Integrated Operations Plan, in improving the national command and control systems, and in applying modern operations analysis techniques to military operations at the National level. By his outstanding professional competence and inspiring devotion to duty, Vice Admiral Mustin has rendered exceptionally distinguished service of enduring value to the nation, contributing greatly to the security of the United States . . ."
Gold Star in lieu of the Second Distinguished Service Medal:
"For meritorious service...as Director, Defense Atomic Support Agency, from July 1968 to August 1971 consistently displaying an outstandingly high degree of professional skill, foresight, Initiative and dedication, (he) successfully directed a wide range of technical, operational and administrative activities which substantially strengthened the entire spectrum of national nuclear weapon capabilities, while at the same time achieving major economies of personnel and money...In connection with the exchange of atomic information for mutual defense purposes, he displayed exceptional judgment and diplomacy toward strengthening existing ties and maintaining the most cordial relationships with representatives of North Atlantic Treaty Organization countries in the complex matter of the exchange of sensitive information of a politically delicate context . . ."
