Md Muhsin Alam

Md Muhsin Alam, ndc, psc, is a Brigadier General (One Star General) in Bangladesh Army and the current Commander. of Para Commando Brigade located in Jalalabad Cantonment, Sylhet. He served as a Colonel GS and Deputy Director General of DGFI. He also served as Principal of BKSP as a colonel. In 2019 he was appointed as the Commander of the Para Commando Brigade. Para Commando Brigade has received its flag from current Prime Minister of Bangladesh Honorable Sheikh Hasina on 28 October 2020. This entitles him as a Flag Officer.
Education and Training.
Brigadier General Md Muhsin Alam, ndc, psc was commissioned in the corp of Infantry in June 1991 with 24th BMA Long Course. He has successfully completed a number of courses at home and abroad. The General topped Army Commando Course. He attended Combat Tracking Course from Malaysia, Free Fall Course from China and UN Integrated Mission Staff Officer Course from Canada.
He is a graduate from Defence Services Command and Staff College (DSCSC), completed his Masters in Defense Studies (MDS) from National University and also graduated from National Defense College (NDC). He is an alumnus of Hazrabari High School, Jamalpur and Notre Dame College, Dhaka.
Military career.
In his career the General has served in various command, staff and instructional appointments. As staff he served in an Infantry Brigade as General Staff Officer Grade-2 (GSO-2), Colonel GS and Deputy Director General of DGFI and Principal of BKSP. Currently he is commanding Para Commando Brigade, Bangladesh.
Chattogram Hill tracts (CHT).
As a young officer, He served in a battalion of East Bengal Regiment and took part in Operation DABANOL in CHT. During this period he served in Marishya Zone (Rangamati Hill District). He was Commanding Officer (CO) of a Battalion of Bangladesh Infantry Regiment (BIR). He was also the Zone Commander of Ruma Zone.
He was the Zone Commander of Baghaitat Zone Also. He was put in command of Baghaihat zone overnight to mitigate a particularly sensitive crisis From Ruma Zone he conducted number of Anti Narcotics Operation (Poppy field destruction) in Likri para.
Free Faller.
He is an Active Sky Diver. He has undergone Free Fall Courses in PLA Airborne School in China. He is the only Brigadier General of Bangladesh Army who participated in Free Fall Jump.
School of Infantry and Tactics (SI&T).
The General is a veteran instructor of this Institution. At the rank of Lieutenant he served in Weapon Wing and conducted Young Officers Basic Course- Infantry (YOBC). As a Captain he served in Special Warfare Wing in 1994-1996 and as Major again he served in Special Warfare Wing in 2002–2004. He conducted Basic Commando Course (BCC), Army Commando Course (ACC), Counter Insurgency (CI) and Jungle warfare (JW) course, Tracking course and Free Fall courses.
Staff Appointments.
As a Staff, he served as General Staff Officer Grade-2 (GSO-2) of an Independent Infantry Brigade.
Commands.
In Command, he commanded two Infantry Battalions, one Special Forces Contingent in UNAMID (Darfur, Sudan) and One Infantry Brigade. He commanded an Infantry Brigade in Bogura Cantonment. He is the current commander in the only Special Forces Brigade of Bangladesh Army.
Exercises.
The general has participated in many Joint Exercises; namely Balance Buffalo and Advanced Marksmanship (US Army), Exercise Tiger Shark (US Army) and Exercise Cope South (US Air Force).
As Commander of Para Commando Brigade, he conducted Exercise Tiger Shark on 24 September 2020, 24-day Joint Counter Terrorism Training Exercise Bengal Brit (Royal British Army) on and 6-day long Exercise Cope South. on 6 February 2020.
Personal life.
Brigadier General Muhsin was born in 1971 and hails from Jamalpur, Bangladesh.
He is married and has a Son.
He is a keen Golfer and took sports as his favorite pastime.
He also participated in humanitarian aid drive amid recent COVID-19 pandemic
He is an extensive traveler and has visited many countries in both official and personal capacity.