Private First-Class Austine L. Brown enlisted in the United States Marine Corps in October of 1994. During her enlistment, she served as a combat videographer (4671) in the division and the wing and was meritoriously promoted to corporal and sergeant. Sergeant Rawllins left active duty in 1998 and returned to the University of Florida to complete a Bachelor of Science in Telecommunication (Broadcast Journalism) and a minor in Classical Studies.
After graduating with honors in May of 2000, Candidate Rawllins was accepted to and graduated from Officer’s Candidate School. Second Lieutenant Rawllins completed The Basic School in 2001, then went on to attend Logistics Officer School at Camp Johnson, in
North Carolina. Upon completion of Logistics School, Second Lieutenant Rawllins reported to 8th Communication (Comm) Battalion, Camp Lejeune, NC. At 8th Comm, Second Lieutenant Rawllins served as the battalion’s Maintenance Management Officer. Assigned to Service Company, Second Lieutenant Rawllins was dual hatted as the Motor Transport platoon commander and the Service Company Operations Officer, and later served as the Service Company Commander.
After her transfer to the reserves in 2005, Captain Rawllins was mobilized to deploy with II Marine Expeditionary Forward (Fwd) and served as the II MEF (Fwd) G-4 Operations Officer in Kuwait. Captain Rawllins then transferred to Fallujah to serve as the G-4 Assistant Plans Officer where she was responsible for developing the MEF concepts of logistical support and coordinating the Marine logistical efforts to support the Iraqi referendum and the first Iraqi election.
After demobilizing in April 2006, Captain Rawllins founded Inteligys—a futures research firm—based in Durham, NC and completed a master’s degree in Strategic Intelligence. In 2008, Captain Rawllins joined the Joint Enabling Capabilities Command (JECC), Joint Forces Command. As a Land Operations Officer and Joint Sustainment Planner, she completed 8 deployments to Bahrain, Qatar, Pakistan, Italy, El Salvador, and Germany in support of global operational requirements. She was promoted to Major in December of 2010 while supporting flood relief in Pakistan.
In 2013, Major Rawllins was assigned to the G-4 Marine Forces Europe and Africa where she served as the G-4 Operations Officer and the lead logistics planner in support of training and contingency operations throughout Europe and Africa. During her tenure, Major Rawllins completed Marine Corps Command and Staff, was selected for promotion to lieutenant colonel and slated for command of Marine Wing Support Squadron (MWSS)-472. In 2017, Lieutenant Colonel Rawllins assumed command of Marine Wing Support Squadron-472. And in 2019, after completing a successful command tour, she was selected to attend resident Professional Military Education at the National War College at Fort McNair. Lieutenant Colonel Rawllins graduated as a distinguished graduate of the War College, and as a National Defense University Scholar. Subsequently, she was assigned to the International Branch (PLU), Plans, Policy and Operations at Headquarters Marine Corps.
After leaving Headquarters Marine Corps, Lieutenant Colonel Rawllins was recruited to join the 4th Marine Logistics Group Service Component Operational Logistics Augmentation Cell (SCOLAC) in Nov 2021. She served as the Deployment & Distribution Operations Center OIC before being promoted to be the Education Branch Chief. Colonel Rawllins served subsequently as the Director of SCOLAC before being selected to be the Chief of Staff for Marine Forces South.
Colonel Rawllins’ personal decorations include the Meritorious Service Medal (with gold star in lieu of third award), Joint Service Commendation Medal (with gold star in lieu of second award), the Navy and Marine Corps Commendation (with gold star in lieu of second award), the Navy and Marine Corps Achievement Medal, and Marine Corps Good Conduct Medal.