Waleed A. Samkari

Brigadier General Waleed Ahmad Samkari (العميد وليد أحمد السمكري) was director of the Royal Maintenance Corps (سلاح الصيانة الملكي) of the Jordanian Armed Forces responsible for supporting continuous operations for the military.

[3] His younger brother Sameer had joined a few years earlier and was a captain for the Royal Jordanian Air Force, before his death in a fighter jet crash while training in the United States in 1967[4] Samkari attended Istanbul Technical University (1959–1965), where he received his undergraduate and graduate degrees in mechanical engineering.

He then worked on an irrigation project north of Jordan, where he witnessed an aerial battle between Israeli and Syrian fighter jets in the Six-Day War in 1967.

After he joined the army in 1972, the military sent Samkari for several educational courses in England and the United States, including Fort Lee (Virginia) in 1988, where he received his second master's degree from the Florida Institute of Technology.

General Samkari was a member of the envoy to the Soviet Union which acquired Russian made anti aircraft weaponry, the ZSU-23-4 "Shilka" and the 9K33 Osa missiles and targeting radar.

Samkari was also sent to the United States several times in order to take courses to improve the Jordanian military in Fort Lee (Virginia).