Faatumu le fuaiupu lenei: O Colonel Kusimov na siitia atu e suesue i le Frunze Military Academy e Marshal Semyon Budyonny i le 1944 ma faauu mai le Frunze Military Academy i le 1947, auai i le
Moscow Victory Parade i le aso 24 o Iuni 1945. Na faauu o ia mai le Voroshilov Military Academy o le USSR Army General Staff i le 1951, ma mulimuli ane tulaʻi i le tulaga o le major-general.