Valeri Saar (born 28 June 1955 in
Valga) is an
Estonia
Estonia, formally the Republic of Estonia, is a country by the Baltic Sea in Northern Europe. It is bordered to the north by the Gulf of Finland across from Finland, to the west by the sea across from Sweden, to the south by Latvia, a ...
n military personnel (
Major General
Major general (abbreviated MG, maj. gen. and similar) is a military rank used in many countries. It is derived from the older rank of sergeant major general. The disappearance of the "sergeant" in the title explains the apparent confusion of ...
).
In 1976, he graduated from the Higher Air Defense Radio Electronic Military College in
Zhitomir
Zhytomyr ( uk, Жито́мир, translit=Zhytomyr ; russian: Жито́мир, Zhitomir ; pl, Żytomierz ; yi, זשיטאָמיר, Zhitomir; german: Schytomyr ) is a city in the north of the western half of Ukraine. It is the administrative ...
, Ukraine.
He started his military career in 1976, being an engineer and the Chief of Radar Station in the Air Defense unit. Between the years of 2007 to 2012, he was the Commander of
Estonian Air Force
The Estonian Air Force ( et, Õhuvägi, ) is the aviation branch of the Estonian Defence Forces. The air force traces its history to 1918, and was re-established in its current form in 1991.
As of 2016, the Estonian Air Force has a strength of ...
. Since 2012, he has been the Military Representative of Estonia to
NATO
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and EU Military Committees.
In 2005, he was awarded with
Order of the Cross of the Eagle
The Order of the Cross of the Eagle ( et, Kotkaristi teenetemärk; french: Ordre de la Croix de l'Aigle) was instituted in 1928 by the Estonian Defence League to commemorate the tenth anniversary of Estonian independence. It was adopted as a st ...
, III class.
References
1955 births
Living people
People from Valga, Estonia
Estonian major generals
Soviet Air Defence Force officers
20th-century Estonian military personnel
21st-century Estonian military personnel
Recipients of the Military Order of the Cross of the Eagle, Class III
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