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Armed Forces Commanders - Emile Boustany

1- General Information:

Date and place of birth: 1909- Junieh-Caza of Keserwan

Foreign Languages: French and English

Marital status: Married/3 children

2- Promotions:

Entered the Military Academy of Damascus as a Sergeant Cadet Officer on 9/14/1933

Promoted to the rank of Second Lieutenant on 9/1/1933

Promoted to the rank of First Lieutenant on 9/1/1937

Promoted to the rank of Captain on 1/25/1942

Promoted to the rank of Lieutenant Colonel on 7/1/1947

Promoted to the rank of Colonel on 7/1/ 19 54

Promoted to the rank of Brigadier General on 1/1/1959

Promoted to the rank of Major General on 8/25/1965

Promoted to the rank of General on 7/11/1967

3- Functions:

Attached to the 1^st Orient regiment on 9/1/1934

Attached to the Alawits Partisans (Al Anssar) regiment on 6/19/1941

Attached to the 3^rd snipers regiment on 5/20/1943

Attached to the Military Academy in Damascus an assistant to the Academy Commander on 8/1/1943

Appointed Commander of the Nurses Platoon on 2/16/1945

Attached to the High Command Staff of War on 7/1/1945

Appointed as Chief of the Second Bureau at the Lebanese Army Staff of War when the Army was delivered to the Lebanese Government and was designated Deputy-Chief of Staff of War, on 8/1/1945

Assigned Director of the Telephone Service on 4/1/1946

Assigned Director of Finance and Control Service on 2/20/1948

Assigned Air Force Commander and Commander of Rayak Air Base on 7/1/1949

Commissioned to the supervision of the Aviation Bureau at the army Command and Appointed

As director of the Engineering Works on 1/1/1954

Assigned Commander of the Region of Bekaa, on 4/6/1955

Assigned Air Force Commander and Director of the Engineering Works on 11/1/1955

Assigned Air Force Commander on 2/19/1957

Assigned Commander of the North Region of Lebanon , on 6/8/1959

Assigned Inspector of Training, on 9/4//1964

Designated the Armed Forces Commander, on 7/1/1965

Legally retired on 1/7/1970

Passed away on 6/7/2002

4- Courses inside the country:

Range–meter utility course, from 8/7/1935 to 8/10/1935

Accountancy course from 12/1/1936 to 28/2/ 1937

Intelligence course, from 15/1/1941 to 1/31/ 1941

Complementary training course for officers from 2/6/1950 to 3/14/ 1950

Complementary Training course for senior officers from 1/15/1952 to 2/21/ 1952

5- Medals, awards and honors:

Lebanese Silver Order of Merit, with branches

Syrian Order of Merit in 2^nd grade

Commemorative Medal of Palestine

National order of the Cedar in grade of Knight

Order of the Phoenix in rank of Commandor

War Medal in Silver Star

Lebanese Golden Medal of Merit

National Order of the Cedar in Officer Grade

American Order of Merit

Order of the throne of Marrakech in grade of grand officer

Medal of the Eagle for aviation in excellent class

Golden Commemorative Medal of his Holiness Pope Leon XIII of the Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem

Lebanese Order of Merit, order of Commandor

Commemorative Medal of 12/31/1961

Medal of Competence from the Minister of the Interior

Brazilian National Order of Merit in grade of grand officer

Haitian National Order of Honor and Merit in grade of Grand Cordon

Senegalese National Order in grade of grand officer

Ethiopian Grand Cordon

Jordanian Medal of Independence in 1^st grade

National Order of the Cedar in grade of grand officer

Military Medal

Felicitations of the Prime Minister

Commendation for the troop

Felicitations of the Commander of the Mount Lebanon region