Indian air force

  Today, because of the surging aspirations of Service personnel and their families and the media exposure to the improving standards of living in our country , the CSD provides a range of quality branded and unbranded products from shoe brushes to microwave ovens and cooking oil to luxury cars. The portfolio has grown from just a few items of daily use in 1948 (when the Department was created) to over four thousand products today. Information on all these products and brands is available on this web site through a "know-all" Search Engine for the benefit of the consumer. Organization Structure The governing body of the Canteen Services in India is the Board of Control forCanteen Services (BOCCS) which is headed by Hon'ble Raksha Rajya Mantri (RRM) and has as members the Defence Secretary, Secretary Defence (Finance), the Quarter Master General (QMG), COP (Naval HQ), AOA ( Air HQ). The Board is assisted by an Executive Committee of BOCCS while the day to day ma...

Army Public Schools  ( APS ) is a system of  Public school  established for imparting education to the children of the  Indian armed forces  personnel. With 137 schools throughout the country, it is one of the largest chains of schools in India. It is controlled by the  Army Welfare Education Society  ( AWES ), which was established in 1983, has over the years established more than 135 Army public schools and 249 Army pre-primary schools across India , and also several institutions of higher education.   The schools are generally managed by the  army   regional commands  following the  CBSE  pattern of education. Admission is granted on a priority basis to wards of Army personnel. All Army schools have a chairman who is a senior Indian Army officer of brigadier rank and a patron who is of major general rank.   Army Public Schools  of India Army Goodwill School, Potha , Jammu and Kashmir Army Pub...

The IAF 's helicopter fleet has steadily increased in numbers over the past few years, blossoming from a handful of U.S. types in the 60s to over 500 French, Indian and Soviet built types. The pride of the force is, undoubtedly, the Mi-26 heavy lift helicopter which has been operated by No. 126 HU with outstanding results in the mountains of Northern India . The bulk of rotorcraft are Medium Lift Helicopters (MI-17/MI-17IV/MI-17V5 and Mi-8s) well over two hundred of these types serving in helicopter units throughout the country, playing a vital logistic support role. Induction of the latest machine, the Mi-17 V5, is a quantum jump in our Medium Heli-lift capability in terms of the avionics, weapon systems as well as its hot and high altitude performance. Medium Lift Helicopters of IAF are operated for commando assault tasks, ferrying supplies and personnel to remote mountain helipads, carrying out SAR (Search and Rescue Operations) and logistic support tasks in the island ter...

  As an Officer , a warrior, in the Air Force , you’re tasked with upholding the constitution and protecting India ’s freedom. The responsibility is enormous, but its not only about work its also about living well. Quality of life is an important attribute of Air Force life and has no parallel in the civil sector. The life offers you challenge, adventure, excitement, honour , prestige, self respect, content family life, safety and security for self and family and not to forget the social status, respect and esteem of your countrymen. Besides being a noble service to the motherland and an honorable  profession to be proud of, life in the IAF gives variety, adventure and challenge. It provides best of facilities be it recreation, sports, medical, education or clubs and institutes. The lifestyle imbibes in us a healthy well being and a regime for life. The quality time we are able to spend with our family, social bonding with our counterparts, lifetime relations we nurture and ...

  The cadet gets up early in the morning before the sunrays dawn upon the earth. This time doesn’t change be it sunny, windy, rainy, and cold, the time is always the same, it isn’t your regular school to delay your start or totally cancel it off owing to bad weather, it is the navy and one needs to go on. Now he is ready to go for his drill, swimming, physical training, small arms training, horse riding or watermanship training in the morning. Thereafter he changes into his uniform and prepares his own cabin in a presentable state. He then goes for a sumptuous breakfast to mess followed by classroom instructions. Yes all this happens before you even start your academic day. Then cadets go through the regular B Tech subjects and some of the tough service subjects for the next four hours in classrooms which would put even the finest of internationally renowned colleges to shame. They are attached with the state of the art training aids to help instructors impart knowledge in t...

  Few days after entering the Indian Military Academy a  Gentlemen cadet  is full of sleep and develops the skills to sleep even while standing. Being a UESS entry, a gentlemen cadet is generally in the limelight, thanks to his just one year training against the four year training of Ex- NDA s but more because of the fact that gets his salary that is manifolds to their stipend. As much every senior behaves that a GC of such entry needs to prove even more. Thanks to the seniors, the GC generally gets up at 4 O’clock and reports to his senior so that he could start their day. After an hour of trg session, the GC is left to get ready for his morning ODT Rushing towards the PT Ground/Drill Square, he puts in all his strength for the next one and a half hour. Drenched in sweat, he returns back to his cabin maintaining proper squads. There he tries to be as fast as he can in taking bath and changing over to next rig. Then, hoping to have something good in his breakfast, he...