AIR FORCE OFFICER: Before he entered politics, Hosni Mubarak was a career officer in the Egyptian Air Force. He served as its commander from 1972 to 1975 and rose to the rank of air chief marshal in 1973. Hosni Mubarak reviews a military parade in Cairo on October 6, 1974. He was then air force commander. Mubarak died on Tuesday, February 25, 2020, at 91 in a military hospital in Cairo where he had stayed in recent weeks.