He has taught subjects in naval warfare and engineering in the Technical Maritime Intermediate School of the National Somali Navy and served as director from 1981 to 1982.

Lacle attended the Coast Guard Academy and later Naval War College on Faculty Command in the United States and wrote his dissertation about Soviet Somali policy.

Lacle later wrote and defended his dissertation to fulfill the requirements for Masters in Strategy, National Security and Decision Making.

He also attended several Naval Institutes in the United States for number of courses Master Diesel Course at National Training Center Great Lakes, Engineering Officer of the Watch at Surface Warfare Officers School and Defense Language Institute in United States.

In 2009 after Abdirahman Mohamud Farole was elected as the new president of Puntland State he was assigned as the deputy minister of Ministry of Marine Transport,[2] Ports and Counter Piracy and remained in his position until the term of presidency ended for Mr. Abdirahman Mohamud Farole in 2014,[3] and he is one of the most senior members of the Horseed (political party)[4] of the President of the Political Party and the State of Puntland Mr. Abdirahman Mohamud Farole.