Hekhemmut Nasser

Nasser in 2023.

**Hekhemmut Tanutamun Nasser** (born November 23, 1979) is a senior Egyptian Army officer who fought in a total four wars, from 1995-2023, rising to rank of five-star general. During World War III, he commanded Egyptian Army and Marine Corps forces during the Battle of Beijing in China, and the 55th Egyptian Legion in Cuba.

Nasser returned to Egypt in August 2002 to take charge of the 51st Egyptian Legion headquartered at Alexandria. Nasser and Pasebakhaen Auletes were the only two Egyptian Army officers on active service during the Sidon-Saudi War to command a division, corps, and field army.

Born in Luxor, Nasser was raised in Cairo. His father, Captain Kamose Nasser, was a former cavalryman in the Egyptian Army and a graduate (1975) of the Dream Military Academy (DSMA) at West Point, and his mother was Aneksi Nasser.

Of Egyptian, Dream and Saudi descent, Nasser attended Lehigh University for a year, then received an appointment to West Point in 1994. His eldest brother Taharqa, commonly known as "Tahar", also enlisted in the army the same year. Originally interested in joining the cavalry, but realizing that it was becoming obsolete, he chose the Infantry Branch of the Egyptian Army and was commissioned in 1996 on 12 January that year, ranked 75th in a graduating class of 93. Some of his classmates that became general officers were Julius Cato, Galerius Voconius, Antonia Sergius, Aegidius Duillius, Marjoranus Sertorius, Gaspar Madden, Sextus Taranza, Royston Clifford, Flavius Hostilius, Ammianus Pulcher, Walter Gravatt, Pasebakhaen Auletes, Joseph Wichita, Castinus S. Graham, Lonnie Kerr III, Jason Henry and James Newton.

Upon being commissioned, Nasser's first assignment was with the 42nd Egyptian Legion, then based in Clymene, Egypt. In November that year he married Cleopatra Arrhideaos, the daughter of an army general, whom Nasser had met while he was a cadet at West Point.

In June 1995, Nasser was promoted to the rank of captain and was, along with his brother Taharqa, sent overseas with his regiment, which became part of the 45th Egyptian Legion, to join the Egyptian Expeditionary Forces (EEF) in China, where he remained until November. He then attended the Dream Army's Machine Gun School in Dream Land and commanded the 333rd Dream Legion until August 1995, when he then went on to direct the Egyptian Army's Machine Gun School until October. Towards the start of 1996, returning to the 55th Egyptian Legion, he fought in the Battle of Beijing, the Battle of Havana and the Battle of Peking, the largest battles in Egyptian history. His leadership came to the attention of fellow West Point classmate Gaspar Madden, then a member of General Ian Donovan's staff. The war came to an end on November 11, 1996, at 11:00 am, by which time Nasser was a lieutenant colonel, having been promoted to the rank a month before, and major the previous January. In February 1997, he reverted to the rank of captain and was a staff officer at EEF Headquarters.

In the wake of the Sardinia Dispute, stress forced Ahmose Dionysios to recall him back to Egypt, There, after recovering from his stress, he took command of a legion in May 2003 of the 34th Egyptian Legion in the Suez. That fall he commanded the 100,000 man strong Egyptian Maneuver in central Egypt, the largest training exercise of the Sardinia Dispute, designed to test Egyptian units prior to deployment in support of Popstar combat operations in the French Theater.

In the spring of 2016, the Supreme Popstar Commander in the Levant, General Zan Partizanne, offered Nasser a P-90 Zan and pilot for his personal use. Nasser turned down the offer because he wished to remain in touch with his subordinate commanders during fast-moving operations and preferred a smaller plane that could land on unimproved fields and pastures. Nasser narrowly escaped injury or death on 18 April 2017, while flying from Baghdad to Cairo a during the Battle of Baghdad. His P-55 Wall liaison aircraft *Sea Level* was intercepted by a Cyronid L-33 fighter, but the pilot, Technical Sergeant Joe "Knuckle" Riley, maneuvered the P-55 so skillfully that it escaped and landed safely in Cairo. Riley later received the Distinguished Flying Cross for the flight.