The Distinguished Service Medal (DSM) is a military decoration of the United States Air Force and United States Space Force and is presented to airmen and guardians to recognize distinguished and exceptionally meritorious service to the United States while serving in a duty or position of great responsibility. The Distinguished Service Medal was created by an act of the United States Congress on July 6,1960 and was first awarded in 1965. Prior to the creation of the Distinguished Service Medal in 1960,United States Air Force airmen were awarded the Army Distinguished Service Medal.
Femi John Femi is the first qualified helicopter pilot to be appointed as the Chief of Air Staff of the Nigerian Air Force.
General Deshamanya Don Sepala Attygalle,was a Sri Lankan army general,civil servant and diplomat. The longest serving Commander of the Sri Lankan Army (1967–1977),he went on to serve as the Permanent secretary to the Ministry of Defence and Sri Lankan High Commissioner to the United Kingdom.
Komba Sylvester Mansa-Musa Mondeh was a top-ranking officer in the Sierra Leonean army. Mondeh was one of six young soldiers in the Sierra Leonean Army that ousted president Joseph Saidu Momoh led All People's Congress (APC) government on 29 April 1992. He served as the deputy head of state of Sierra Leone in 1996,under Brigadier Julius Maada Bio of the NPRC.
The Nigerian Defence Academy (NDA) is a military university based in Kaduna,Nigeria that trains officer cadets for commissioning into one of the three services of the Nigerian Armed Forces:the Army,the Navy,and the Air Force. The duration of training at the Nigerian Defence Academy is five years.
General Tissa Indraka Weeratunga,VSV was a Sri Lankan general. He was the former Commander of the Sri Lankan Army and the first General Officer Commanding (GOC) of the Joint Operations Headquarters (JOH),he was later Sri Lanka's High Commissioner to Canada.
Salaudeen Adebola Latinwo was a group captain in the Nigerian Air Force and a military governor of Kwara State,Nigeria,under Muhammadu Buhari's military government.
Ibrahim Mahmud Alfa was an air marshal in the Nigerian Air Force. He previously served as Military administrator of Kaduna State and Chief of Air Staff for the Nigerian Air Force. He died on 16 March 2000.
George Tamunoiyowuna Kurubo was Nigerian Air Force's Chief of the Air Staff from 1966 to 1967. Brigadier George T Kurubo was the third Commander of the Nigerian Air Force (NAF),the first indigenous to hold the post. He was married,had four children,visited the Government School in Bonny.
Shittu Alao was Nigerian Air Force's Chief of the Air Staff from 1967 to 1969. Colonel Shittu was the fourth Commander of the Nigerian Air Force (NAF),the second indigenous officer to hold the post.
John Nmadu Yisa-Doko,GCON,CFR was the first Nigerian Air Force's Chief of the Air Staff from 1975 to 1980 who joined as a NAF cadet.
Brigadier Rohan M. Jayasinghe,USP,psc,SLAC was a Sri Lankan military officer,former Director Armour;brigade commander,armored brigade;brigade commander,212 Brigade and Sri Lanka's first Defence,Military,Naval and Air attaché,Sri Lankan Embassy,Washington DC.
Alex Sabundu BadehMSS DSS was an officer of the Nigerian Air Force who served as the 18th Chief of Air Staff and the 15th Chief of Defence Staff of Nigeria. He died from gunshot injuries sustained after his vehicle was attacked by unknown gunmen along Abuja-Keffi road on Tuesday,18 December 2018.
Brigadier Helm Roos (1930–1992) was a senior officer in the South African Army from the artillery. He was a qualified Army Air Observation Pilot who served as OC 7 Division and Western Province Command before his retirement in the seventies.
Sadique Baba Abubakarpsc (+) DFS GSS fwc fdc(+) MSc is a retired air marshal in the Nigerian Air Force and former Chief of the Air Staff of Nigeria.
Raymond Matthew Dumuje OFR,fss,mni,psc,BEM was a Nigerian Army officer and businessman. He became the first Quartermaster general of the Nigerian Army. On 13 February 1976,as a colonel,he was shot and wounded in Ikoyi,Lagos during the failed "Dimka coup" attempt that saw the assassination of the then Military President,General Murtala Ramat Mohammed. The history of the Nigerian Armed Forces records this particular event as a mistaken identity for Lt-General Olusegun Obasanjo,the then Chief of Staff of the Nigerian Army. He was one of very few to have served both in the Nigerian Army and the Nigerian Air Force. He was also a prominent indigene of the Udu clan in Delta state. He retired as the Director General,Nigerian Army,Army Reserve and Recruitment,in January 1984.
Al-Amin Musa Daggash is a retired Air Marshal of the Nigerian Air Force who served as the 7th Chief of the Nigerian Defence Staff from 1998 to 1999 under the General Abdulsalami Abubakar regime.
Nsikak-Abasi Essien Eduok was the Chief of the Air Staff of the Nigerian Air Force between 1996 and 1999.
Brigadier General Karel Christopher Ndjoba was a Namibian military officer whose last appointment was as Defence Attachéto Germany. His father Cornelius Tuhafeni Ndjoba was chief minister of Ovamboland.
Air Vice Marshal Edward Gabkwet is a Nigerian air force officer who is the 17th director of Public Relations and Information of the Nigerian Air Force.
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