Entered the Military Academy of Damascus as a Sergeant Cadet Officer on 14/09/1933
Promoted to the rank of Second Lieutenant on 01/09/1933
Promoted to the rank of First Lieutenant on 01/09/1937
Promoted to the rank of Captain on 25/01/1942
Promoted to the rank of Lieutenant Colonel on 01/07/1947
Promoted to the rank of Colonel on 01/07/1954
Promoted to the rank of Brigadier General on 01/01/1959
Promoted to the rank of Major General on 25/08/1965
Promoted to the rank of General on 11/07/1967
Functions
Attached to the 1st Levant regiment on 01/09/1934
Attached to the Alawits Partisans (Al Anssar) regiment on 19/06/1941
Attached to the 3rd Snipers regiment on 20/05/1943
Attached to the Military Academy in Damascus as assistant to the Academy Commander on 01/08/1943
Appointed Commander of the Nurses Platoon on 16/02/1945
Attached to the High Command Staff of War on 01/07/1945
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 01/08/1945
Assigned Director of the Telephone Service on 01/04/1946
Assigned Director of Finance and Control Service on 20/02/1948
Assigned Air Force Commander and Commander of Rayak Air Base on 01/07/1949
Commissioned to the supervision of the Aviation Bureau at the army Command and Appointed as director of the Engineering Works on 01/01/1954
Assigned Commander of the Region of Bekaa, on 06/04/1955
Assigned Air Force Commander and Director of the Engineering Works on 01/11/1955
Assigned Air Force Commander on 19/02/1957
Assigned Commander of the North Region of Lebanon , on 08/06/1959
Assigned Inspector of Training, on 04/09/1964
Designated the Armed Forces Commander, on 01/07/1965
Legally retired on 07/01/1970
Passed away on 07/06/2002
Courses inside the country
Range–meter utility course, from 07/08/1935 to 10/08/1935
Accountance course from 01/12/1936 to 28/02/1937
Intelligence course, from 01/15/1941 to 31/01/1941
Complementary training course for officers from 06/02/1950 to 14/03/1950
Complementary Training course for senior officers from 15/01/1952 to 21/02/1952
Medals and honors
Lebanese Silver Order of Merit, with branches
Syrian Order of Merit in 2nd 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 31/12/1961
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 1st 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
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