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Ahmed Badawy Sayyid Ahmed | |
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| Preceded by | Kamal Hassan Ali |
| Succeeded by | Abd Al-Halim Abu-Ghazala |
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| Born | 3 April 1927 Chief of the General Staff |
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Ahmed Badawi Sayyid Ahmed (Arabic: أحمد بدوي سيد أحمد) was an Egyptian
Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces.[1]
Early life
Ahmed Badawy was born in the coastal city of
M. V. Frunze Military Academy
.
Career
He became a senior lecturer at the military academy in 1958 but then he was fired from the military service in 1967. [citation needed] President
Anwar El-Sadat then asked him to return to military service at the same time as he became a lecturer at Ain Shams University. As a brigadier general, he commanded the 7th Infantry Division during the Yom Kippur War, and after the Third Army became encircled, was placed in command of the cut-off force. The isolated part of the army was made up of the 7th and 19th Infantry Divisions, plus two independent armoured brigades, on the east bank, and a mixture of units in Suez city itself.[2]
He became the commander of the Training Institute of the Armed Forces and was then promoted to become the
Chief of the General Staff
of the Egyptian Armed Forces.
On 14 May 1980,
Minister of Defence and Military Production
.
Death
A few months after becoming in charge of the ministry of defence, Ahmed Badawy died, along with 13 senior officers, in a helicopter crash on 2 March 1981.
References
- ^ "ذاكرة مصر المعاصرة - السيرة الذاتية". modernegypt.bibalex.org. Retrieved 2017-12-05.
- ^ Trevor Dupuy, Elusive Victory, 1978, 543.
External links
- https://search.wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/1976CAIRO16857_b.html - Third Army commander Maj Gen Ahmad Badawi speaks to State Departmentofficials, 7 December 1976.
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