Almog graduated from Class Commanders and Physical Education Instructors courses and served in the infantry brigade of the Nahal.

Almog completed professional training courses in different naval units and was certified as a missile boat commander.

During the Yom Kippur War, Almog joined the fourth raid into the Egyptian port of Hurgada, in the northern part of the Red Sea.

In addition, Almog participated in mortar shelling launched from a landing craft on the Egyptian anchorage of Marsa T'lamat (Central Gulf of Suez).

In 1974, Almog studied at the US Naval War College in Newport, Rhode Island and received a Master's degree in Management and Strategy.

In August 1975 he was appointed as the commander of the Naval Base of Haifa and was promoted to one-star Rear Admiral.

In January 1979, following the dismissal of Michael Barkai due to sexual misconduct, Almog was appointed as the Commander In Chief (C.I.C.)

In 1982, it participated in the First Lebanon War during which ground forces and thousands of armored vehicles were landed on the Lebanese seashore.

Its core element included combined operation of missile boats, submarines and naval commandos.

The Israeli Navy conducted extensive planning in order to define its future needs, and the development and acquisition of equipment.

In addition, the Navy launched the development and the build-up of a sophisticated system of alert and surveillance along the shores of Israel.

In March 1986, Almog retired from the IDF and was appointed, at the request of the Ministers of Transportation and Finance and the Official Receiver of the state as a "Special Manager" for the government-owned Israel Shipyards.

Nine years later, after completion of a turnaround program the company became profitable, was taken out of receivership and was sold as a viable business to private investors.

[1] During this time the American Navy's Sixth Fleet conducted 50% of its Mediterranean ship repairs in Israel Shipyards.

Almog received the Legion of Merit award from the United States Secretary of Defense while commanding the Israeli Navy (1981).