Abu Sayed Mohammad Abdul Awal

Awal was born in 1957 in Jamalpur of then East Pakistan (now in Mymensingh Division, Bangladesh). He was one of the pioneer cadets of the Bangladesh Naval Academy in July 1976 with former chief of naval staff vice admiral Zahir Uddin Ahmed. He was commissioned as acting sub Lieutenant in Bangladesh Navy in January 1979. Awal was a naval artillery officer and a graduate of the Defence Services Command and Staff College and the National Defence College. Awal also attended Britannia Royal Naval College, Dartmouth, the Turkish Naval Academy and he obtained a gunnery staff from the Naval War College.^{[citation needed]}

Awal commanded two warships, two offshore vessels and three patrol crafts and one naval base. He also commanded the Bangladesh naval flotilla and furthermore director of naval operations at naval headquarters. Awal was ameliorated to commodore and appointed defence attaché of Bangladesh Mission to Sri Lanka. Awal soon was promoted to the rank of rear admiral on 29 September 2008^[5] and designated as assistant chief of naval staff (Operation) at naval headquarters. He was soon designated as the first naval officer to be high commissioner to Maldives on August 2010. Awal returned to naval headquarters on December four years later. He went into retirement as assistant chief of naval staff for personnel on 31 January 2015.^[1][6][7]