Rear Admiral Alweendo Paulus Amungulu is a Namibian military officer who's serving as the Commander of the

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. He was appointed the Commander of the Namibian Navy in September 2020. Prior to that he served as Commander of Naval Operations(CNO) with the rank of Rear Admiral(JG).

Career

Exile

Admiral Amungulu joined SWAPO in Angola in 1979 where he undertook his Secondary schooling in Kwanza Sul at the Namibia Education Centre. Between 1981 to 1984 he trained in the

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and earned his diploma in Auto mechanics and deployed as a mechanic at a SWAPO transit camp at Viana outside

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. In 1985 he was appointed as the Road construction secretary at Kwaza Sul. He would join the

People's Liberation Army of Namibia The People's Liberation Army of Namibia (PLAN) was the military wing of the South West Africa People's Organisation (SWAPO). It fought against the South African Defence Force (SADF) and South West African Territorial Force (SWATF) during the Sou ...

under SWAPO in 1987 and received military training at the

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training centre in Lubango,

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and specialized as a signaler.

NDF career

Rear Admiral Amungulu's career in the Namibian Defence Force started in 1990 as a

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in the policy, plans and operations department as a Field Intelligence Operative Officer,https://mod.gov.na/documents/264813/283588/cv+amungulu+ss.pdf/310d7d3d-4cef-4c26-b551-50213742bb33 he would then after be promoted to the rank of

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. In 1995 he was part of the first group of ten Army officers sent to Brazil as Naval Pioneers led by

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and consisted of officers such as Peter Vilho and Sinsy Nghipandua. He obtained a Diploma in Naval Science in 1998 upon completion of his studies, he was then promoted to the rank of Navy

and later promoted to Commander until 2010. At the commissioning of the Namibian Defence Force Maritime Wing in 1998 he was appointed as the Chief of Staff Intelligence. In 2004 the

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donated the corvette Purrus to Namibia and Amungulu was appointed as the first Captain of the NS Lt Gen Dimo Hamaambo with the rank of

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. In 2010 he was appointed as the Chief of Staff Naval Support with the rank of naval captain. Amungulu achieved flag officer status in 2015 when he was promoted to rear admiral (JG) . In September 2017 following the promotion and Appointment of Admiral Nghipandua as Navy Commander, Amungulu was appointed as Commander Naval Operations and in this position he represented Namibia in military exercises such as Obangame Express multinational maritime exercise in 2018. Between September 2019 and July 2020 he attended the International College of Defence Studies of

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. In September 2020 he rose to the rank of Rear Admiral and appointed as Navy Commander.

Qualifications

*Certificate of Staff Method and Instructor from the South African Naval Staff College *Certificate of Advance Intelligence from the South African Defence Intelligence College *Certificate of Quality Assurance on Fiber Technology and Inspections from the South African Bureau of Standards *Diploma in Auto Mechanics GDR * Diploma in Naval Science,

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*National Diploma: Joint and Multi-National Operations from the

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*Advanced Diploma in Defence and Strategic Studies from the

, China.

Military Decorations

Namibian Army Pioneer Medal * Naval Pioneers Medal * Army Ten Years Service Medal Ribbon

Ten Year Service Medal *Meritorious Medal “First Class” *Southern Cross Medal, *Captain (Navy) Sacharia Medal *Namibian Navy Pioneer Medal, *250 Sea Days Medal, Gold Star Medal, *Silver Star Medal *Namibian Navy Achievement Medal, * Medalha do Mérito Tamandaré

Tamandaré Medal (Brazilian Navy) * Order of Naval Merit - Knight (Brazil) - ribbon bar

Naval Merit Order Medal(Brazilian Navy)

References

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