Major General David Mark Cullen, is a senior

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officer. He served as the Assistant Chief of the General Staff from 2013 to 2015.

Military career

After being educated at the

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and the

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, Cullen was commissioned into the

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in 1982. He served as commanding officer of the

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during deployment to

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in 2004, for which he was appointed an

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. He was made Commander of the 12th Mechanized Brigade in November 2007, in which role he saw service in

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, Director of Army Staff in December 2009, and Chief of Staff for Land Forces in October 2011. He went on to became Deputy Commanding General-Support, III Corps and Fort Hood in October 2012 and served as Assistant Chief of the General Staff from January 2013 to December 2015. Cullen retired from the British Army on 11 May 2016.

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