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Upon the establishment of India's independence in 1947, the country became a dominion within the British Commonwealth of Nations.Nevertheless, the armed forces, namely, the British Indian Army (IA), the Royal Indian Navy (RIN) and the Royal Indian Air Force (RIAF) - under the helm of King George VI as the Commander-in-Chief - retained their respective pre-independence ranks and corresponding ...
Chief of Staff Northern Command Lieutenant General: Vijay B Nair SM: Chief of Staff Eastern Command R C Srikanth VSM: Chief of Staff Western Command Mohit Wadhwa SM [23] Chief of Staff Central Command Mukesh Chadha SM, VSM [24] Chief of Staff Southern Command Shrinjay Pratap Singh YSM [25] Chief of Staff South Western Command Harbinder Singh ...
Lieutenant colonel (UK: / l ɛ f ˈ t ɛ n ən t ˈ k ɜːr n əl / lef-TEN-ənt KUR-nəl, US: / l uː ˈ t ɛ n-/ loo-TEN-) is a rank of commissioned officers in the armies, most marine forces and some air forces of the world, above a major and below a colonel.
In the United States Army and the United States Marine Corps (USMC), a lieutenant colonel typically commands a battalion- or squadron-sized unit (300 to 1,200 Soldiers or Marines), with a major as executive officer (XO) and a command sergeant major or sergeant major (USMC) as principal non-commissioned officer (NCO) or senior enlisted adviser ...
Lieutenant General Manoj Kumar Katiyar, AVSM is a serving general officer of the Indian Army. He currently serves as the General Officer Commanding-in-Chief Western Command. [2] He earlier served as the Director General of Military Operations (DGMO) at IHQ of MoD (Army), [3] prior to that he was General Officer Commanding I Corps. [4]
Colonels in the Indian Army command battalion-sized units (infantry battalions, artillery regiments, armoured regiments). [1] Until the 1980s, battalions (and equivalents) were commanded by a lieutenant colonel. Colonels also serve as staff officers in divisions like Colonel General Staff (Col GS) and Colonel Administration (Col Adm). At Army ...
Lieutenant General Jai Singh Nain PVSM, AVSM, SM, ADC is a former General Officer-Commanding-in-Chief (GOC-in-C) Southern Command of the Indian Army. He assumed the post from Lieutenant-General Chandi Prasad Mohanty. [1] He had his schooling from the Sainik School, Kunjpura
Lieutenant Colonel Ardeshir Burzorji Tarapore, PVC (18 August 1923 – 16 September 1965), was an Indian military officer and posthumous recipient of India's highest military award, the Param Vir Chakra.