Deborah Mullen, Adm. Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and Adm. Thad W. Allen, Coast Guard commandant, watch the 2009 Inaugural Parade from the presidential reviewing stand in Washington. More than 5,000 men and women in uniform provided military ceremonial support to the 2009 Presidential Inauguration, a tradition dating back to George Washington's 1789 Inauguration.