Michael “Sully” Sullivan

Mike “Sully” Sullivan is a retiring Special Forces Colonel, who served 30 years in the U.S. Army. Sully first joined Team RWB in early 2011 as the founding member of the Team RWB Fayetteville Chapter.

Sully is a 1994 graduate of Claremont McKenna College where he was commissioned as an officer. He became a Green Beret in 2001 and served the past 22 years in the U.S. Army’s Special Forces. He deployed multiple times to include:six combat tours in Afghanistan; a year as the Special Operations Commander in Lebanon; and multiple training deployments across the African continent. Sully commanded the U.S. Army’s and Joint Special Operations most elite service members from the ranks of Captain to Colonel in 3 rd Special Forces Group, Special Operations Command Forward – Lebanon, and 2 nd Security Forces Assistance Brigade.

Sully’s military service heritage can be traced back to his great grandfather, a WWI veteran, who volunteered as a medic and later commissioned as a doctor in the Army Medical Corp, through his grandfathers’ Naval and Army Air Force service in WWII, to his father’s Army service in Vietnam.

Sully lives in North Carolina with his wife Cindy, a career high school math teacher.

They have three children. The “Family Business” now continues through the couple’s twins: Jackson, a Ranger-qualified Infantry officer serving in Alaska and Samantha an Army World Class Athlete who plays for Team USA Rugby 7s. Their oldest son Ryan is a North Carolina Fitness Trainer and Meal-Prep Chef.