Oliver Ranasinghe

Air Chief Marshal Oliver Matthew Ranasinghe, RWP, VSV, USP, ndc, psc shi ne Kwamandan 9 na Sojojin Sama na Sri Lanka . 

Ya yi karatu a Kwalejin Dharmapala, Pannipitiya Ranasinghe ya shiga Royal Ceylon Air Force a ranar 7 ga Fabrairu 1968 a matsayin Sergeant Pilot . Ya sami horo na Basic Ground Combat a RCyAF Diyatalawa inda ya lashe kofin mafi kyawun mai harbi. Daga nan sai ya tafi Makarantar Horar da Jirgin Sama a RCyAF China Bay . Ya horar da de Havilland DHC-1 Chipmunks, de Havillland DH.104 Doves da BAC Jet Provosts, ya sami fuka-fukansa a shekarar 1969. Bayan ya yi amfani da jirgin sama mai laushi da mai laushi a cikin RCyAF, ya ci gaba da yin umurni da No. 4 Squadron kuma ya yi aiki a matsayin Kwamandan Base SLAF Anuradhapura. Ya halarci Kwalejin Air Command da Staff, Kwalejin Tsaro ta Kasa, New Delhi kuma ya kammala Babban Darasi na Gudanarwa a Monterey, California. Daga nan aka nada shi Darakta na Ayyuka sannan daga baya ya zama Shugaban Ma'aikata. A ranar 17 ga watan Fabrairun shekara ta 1994, an nada shi Kwamandan Sojojin Sama kuma an kara shi zuwa matsayin Air Marshal . A lokacin mulkinsa SLAF ta sami IAI Kfirs, Mil Mi-24s da Antonov An-32s. UAVs inda kuma aka kara da su a cikin rundunoninsa. Ya yi ritaya a ranar 5 ga Maris 1999 kuma Jayalath Weerakkody ya gaje shi. Kyaututtuka sun hada da Rana Wickrama Padakkama don jaruntaka, da lambobin yabo na Vishista Seva Vibhushanaya da Uttama Seva Padakkama . A ranar 1 ga Oktoba 2007, an kara shi zuwa matsayin Air Chief Marshal.

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