Scientific and Military Qualifications:
- Bachelor of marine and military science.
- Basic executive officers course.
- Basic intelligence officers course.
- Operations section chiefs course.
- Staff course.
- Joint staff course.
- Master’s in international security strategy.
- Executive seminar at strategic studies center.
Positions held:
- Anti-submarine section chief.
- Operations section chief.
- Intelligence section chief.
- Ship commander.
- Military adviser.
- Base commander.
- Fleet commander.
- Commander of Royal Saudi Naval Forces.
Honors, decoration and medals:
- King Faisal order (third degree)
- Kuwait liberation medal.
- South shield medal.
- Military recognition medal (first degree).
- Command decoration.
- Battle decoration (twice)
- Military administration decoration (twice)
- Security decoration.
- Mastery medal (twice).
- 30 years military service decoration
- Peninsula shield decoration
- The centennial decoration
- Abdullah’s sword decoration
- Nishan-e-Imtiaz medal.
- Migration decoration.
