The Mustin family has recorded a tradition of service in the United States Navy extending from 1896 to the present.

Their naval roots trace back to the first Arthur Sinclair, of Scalloway, in Shetland, father of Commodore Arthur Sinclair, who as a boy seaman sailed with Commodore George Anson in 1740, on a British mission to capture Spanish possessions in the Pacific, during the War of Jenkins' Ear.

[citation needed] Probably the most famous member was Henry Croskey Mustin, a pioneering naval aviator who was designated Navy Air Pilot No.

His ship was lost during that action; with other survivors he landed on Guadalcanal and served ashore with a naval unit attached to the 1st Marine Division.

Lieutenant Commander Mustin, also a Naval Academy graduate (1962) 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 2004–2005 and was selected for promotion to rear admiral (lower half) in March 2016.

[3] In May 2020, RADM John Mustin was nominated for promotion to vice admiral and assignment as Chief of Navy Reserve.