Two Navy officials may soon see disciplinary action for their role in the death of Manalapan native Kyle Mullen, more than two years after the 24-year-old Navy Seal candidate died completing “Hell Week” training.
A lawyer for one of the officers facing blame recently confirmed the Navy will convene administrative hearings to determine what discipline they’ll face.
Kyle’s mother Regina Mullen has been on a years-long quest to get answers and justice for her son. In an interview with NJ Spotlight News anchor Briana Vannozzi, Regina Mullen said she may be called to testify at the hearing.
“I hear that I can go and state what the men have said to me and what my own son had said to me when he was alive,” said Mullen. “The failures that he couldn’t go to the hospital or outside BUDS medical or he would be dropped and deemed a quitter. And he never wanted to be known as a quitter.”
Mullen is accusing one of the officers who oversees SEALS training, Capt. Bradley Geary, of running a smear campaign against her family, after he recently went on a podcast and said performance-enhancing drugs were to blame for Kyle’s death. A nearly 300-page report by the Naval Criminal Investigative Services (NCIS) based on interviews with SEAL trainees who witnessed Mullen’s death had concluded that Mullen went untreated by the SEAL medical staff, which was sent home early that day.
“They’re told pain is not what you say it is, keep going, keep going,” said Mullen. “So, he was forging head. If you’re sick, delirious, hypoxic you don’t know your condition, you count on your medical team to send you where you need to be.”
