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M. Sayed Hossain

Bangladesh Air Force officer

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 4, 2026
Entity authorityQ110588867 ↗
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Muhammad Sayed Hossain OSP, BSP. GUP, ndc, psc is a retired air officer of Bangladesh Air Force and former assistant chief of air staff (administration). He was air officer commanding (AOC) of Bangladesh Air Force Base Bangabandhu.

Career

Hossain served as BAF director of air training, Air Headquarters before he was promoted to air vice marshal. He was promoted to air vice marshal in 2018.

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This entry incorporates text from “M. Sayed Hossain” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.