While commanding Samar, during the capture of Vigan in the Philippine Islands, Mustin won a commendation for towing the boats of the battleship USS Oregon to shore and aiding in covering the landing.

The court martial reconvened to pardon him, and he eventually had his numbers restored by President Theodore Roosevelt, who heard that Mustin had punched a British sailor for insulting the U.S. Navy during the night in question.

In 1913, plans for a national naval air service were taking shape, and Pensacola, Florida, was chosen over Annapolis, Maryland, as the site of a training facility, as the warmer weather along the United States Gulf Coast would be better for year-round flying.

On 31 December 1913, Mustin reported for duty as executive officer of USS Mississippi, a battleship being sent to Pensacola Bay for training purposes.

The United States occupation of Veracruz marked both the first operational use of naval aircraft and the first time that any U.S. aviator of any service was the target of ground fire.

[1] Mississippi began her voyage back to Pensacola on 12 June 1914 to make repairs to the aircraft which had seen continued use without means of maintenance.

With USD $1 million in funding for the year, the station conducted antisubmarine patrols, worked on the development of a new bombsight and a gyroscopic sextant, and saw the arrival of ten new students in July 1915.

Actually, the first takeoff from a ship underway was by the Royal Navy's Commander Charles Rumney Samson from HMS Hibernia in May 1912, three and a half years earlier.

Mustin was outspoken about the potential of naval aviation, despite conclusions by officials that "aeronautics does not offer a prospect of becoming the principal means of exercising compelling force against the enemy."

[2] However, the hurricane that struck Pensacola on 18 October 1916 caused more than $1 million in damage to the base, and Mustin faced accusations that his "wrong flying instruction methods" had caused the deaths of two naval aviators, Lieutenants, junior grade, Richard C. Saufley and James V. Rockwell – developments that greatly dampened plans for the Aeronautic Station.

Captain Mustin was admitted to the National Naval Medical Center in Bethesda, Maryland, in January 1923 suffering from chest pain.

After Captain Mustin's untimely death his widow, Corinne, married naval aviator George D. Murray who had lost his wife in 1920.

Naval Academy, was a destroyerman who served at sea in both the Atlantic and Pacific fleets, and ashore with the Delta River Patrol Group during the Vietnam War.

Lieutenant Commander Mustin, a 1962 Naval Academy graduate, earned a Bronze Star during the Vietnam War for river patrol combat action.

He briefly returned to active duty service as the commanding officer of Inshore Boat Unit 22, deployed to Kuwait, from 2004 to 2005 and was selected for promotion to rear admiral (lower half) in March 2016.

Another great-grandson, Tom Mustin, worked as an actor and is known for his roles in Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home (1986), Death Dreams (1991) and Mad at the Moon (1992).