[2] As soo as he left the School, he took part in the pro-Venizelos National Defense Movement in 1916 and fought on the Macedonian Front (1917-18) against the Germans and Bulgarians during the First World War.

[3][4] Subsequently, he took part in the Greek military mission in the Crimea in the context of the Russian Civil War, as well as in the Asia Minor Campaign as a Captain.

[6] On December 15, 1923, he was promoted to the rank of Major and then studied at the French War School in Paris and upon his return to Greece served in various staff positions.

[8] He was sentenced to life imprisonment with the consequent penalty of military demotion, to a common soldier, held publicly on April 2, 1935 in the then infantry barracks (today's Liberty Park).

In 1950, he was appointed general manager of the (then) National Radio Foundation (EIR, later Hellenic Broadcasting Corporation) at the suggestion of the vice-president of the government, Georgios Papandreou.