Mohamed Isse Lacle
Eng. Mohamed Isse Ali, also known as Col. Mohamed Isse Ganaje, is a Somali engineer, Navy commander, and politician. Lacle has extensive experience in naval warfare, electricity and mechanics, politics and diplomacy. 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. He served in the Somali Navy from 1975 to 1991 and held several commanding positions at his time before the Somali Civil War broke. He holds the rank of naval captain. He currently resides in Garoe, the capital of Puntland.
Personal life
Lacle was born in 1956 in Las Anod, Somalia. He attended Las Anod Intermediate School and Sheikh Secondary School in Sheikh, situated in the northwestern Togdheer province of present-day Somalia. He studied in Somali National University and graduated with honors, with a Bachelor of Science in Engineering. Lacle received a scholarship to attend Military Engineering-Technical University, at that time known as Leningrad Naval Engineering Academy in Leningrad, and he graduated with honors, with a Master of Science degree in electromechanics. 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.Career
Somali Navy
From 1982 to 1983 Eng. Lacle worked at the Technical Maritime Intermediate School of National Somali Navy as he was the general director of the school as well as a lecturer. Follows the command position in Somali Navy Berbera Navy Base from 1982 to 1983 as he was assigned there as Health, Safety, and Environmental Protection Officer. In 1987 Lacle was assigned the Head of Engineering Department of the Somali Navy Mogadishu Headquarters and he was active in that position until 1991 when the Somali Civil War broke.Col. Lacle was recalled to join the newly formed and effective anti-piracy maritime force the Puntland Maritime Police Force, as he was one of the few officers with extensive experience and knowledge in Naval Operations, and Logistics in the Somali Navy. Lacle was promoted for his efforts to reform and educate the Puntland Maritime Police Force.