M. Makbul Hossain

Mohammad Makbul Hossain^[a] (born 14 August 1961) is a retired two star officer of Bangladesh Navy. He is the former director general of Bangladesh Coast Guard and antecedent assistant chief of naval staff for operations and the personnel.^[1]

Makbul was born on 1961 in Mirzapur union of Tangail District, then East Pakistan (now Dhaka Division, Bangladesh). He completed high school from the Mirzapur Cadet College and enlisted to Bangladesh Naval Academy on January 1979. He was commissioned in executive branch on 1 August 1981. Makbul is a torpedo anti-submarine (TAS) coordinator and has undergone a 5 years UT course from the Marshal Tito Naval Academy at then Yugoslavia. Makbul is a graduated of Defence Services Command and Staff College and accomplished defence and strategic course from National Defence University in China.^[2] Makbul also attended the Weapon and Junior Officer's tactics course from the School of Infantry and Tactics, programing and administrative courses from University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa and furthermore counter terrorism courses from the National War College at United States. He obtained his master's degree in defence studies from the National University, Bangladesh.

Makbul commanded one warship, two patrol craft, one minesweeper craft and a composite squadron of small fast attack patrol crafts. Makbul furthermore lead two naval bases, zonal commander east zone at Bangladesh Coast Guard, the naval administrative authority at Dhaka, the Chittagong naval area and the Special Warfare Diving and Salvage branch. At naval headquarters, Makbul served as the director of purchasing and welfare. He also served as a director at the headquarters of the Directorate General of Forces Intelligence and moreover tenured as the principal of Bangladesh Marine Fisheries Academy.

Makbul was promoted to rear admiral on 2013 and appointed as the assistant chief of naval staff for personnel. Soon after he was appointed as the director general of Bangladesh Coast Guard. During his tenure, Makbul cited the ports of Bangladesh especially Chittagong are highly fastened against illegal trafficking due to efforts of coast guards. Makbul also cited the coast guard has provided the 1,11,631 square kilometre economic area under his orchestration.^[3] He returned back to navy on February 2016 while rear admiral Aurangzeb Chowdhury succeeded him as the director general of coast guard. Makbul was later designated as the assistant chief of naval staff for operations. He welcomed the chief of naval staff for the Royal Saudi Navy vice admiral Fahad Bin Abdullah Al-Ghofaily on September 2019 on behalf of naval chief and gave him the guard of honour. Additionally, Makbul oversaw the United States-Bangladesh joint carat exercise the same year.^[4][5] He was awarded the Noubahini Padak, Oshamanno Sheba Padak of the Navy and Bangladesh Coast Guard Medal (Service) for his distinguished service and went to leave per retirement on December 2019.

Makbul is married and has one son and one daughter. He is a keen golfer and a seldom writer for various news articles. He wrote a thesis on better accommodation facilities for Developing countries for The Daily Star news publishing on 2022.^[1][6]

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