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Ashok Chakra for Op Sarp Vinash martyr.
August 14, 2003 21:14 IST

The government has conferred the Ashok Chakra, India's [ Images ] highest peacetime gallantry award, which is the equivalent of the Param Vir Chakra, on a 21-year-old army commando who died participating in Operation Sarp Vinash in Jammu and Kashmir [ Images ] this year.


Sanjog Chhetri of the prestigious 9 Para Commando was part of a team tasked for the initial operations on terrorist locations in Surankot area of Rajouri sector on April 22.
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"The commandos, while approaching the terrorists' hideout, drew extremely heavy automatic fire. Sensing grave danger to his comrades Sanjog assaulted the cave, lobbing grenades and firing from the hip and killing one terrorist. In the intense fire he suffered gunshot wound to the right shoulder, but unmindful of his physical condition he pressed on with the assault and killed a second terrorist. He, however, fell at the entrance of the cave. The terrorists had inflicted multiple gunshot wounds to Sanjog," the army said in a statement

But that was not the end.


"Paratrooper Sanjog Chhetri, in one last act of supreme valour, drew his commando knife and charged into the hideout, killing one more terrorist in hand-to-hand combat before finally succumbing to his wounds."

Inspired by his supreme sacrifice, his comrades killed 13 terrorists that night and captured a Pakistan-trained terrorist.

Chhetri was born on the Republic Day (January 26) of 1982 in Sikkim. A resident of South Sikkim district's Namchi tehsil, he lost his father when he was very young and he and his sister Sangeeta were adopted by their father's elder brother.

He joined the army in March 2001 and was later selected to the exclusive 9 Para (Special Forces), which has been constantly in action in J&K since the beginning of militancy there in the late 80s. The unit has also seen action in Sri Lanka [ Images ] as part of the Indian Peace Keeping Force in the late 80s.

The elite unit has so far won an unprecedented three Ashok Chakras.

Captain A S Jasrotia posthumously won the Ashoka Chakra in 1996 and Major Sudhir Kumar in 2000 when he took on a big group of terrorists in Rajawar jungles in Kupwara district of J&K.

The 9 Para is the only battalion to have won the army chief's unit citation three times.

It was also labelled the 'Bravest of the Brave' for its valiant efforts to retake the entire Zulu ridge in Mushko valley during Kargil [ Images ] operations.

The 9 Para is one of the four special forces in the army and is specially tasked for mountain operations.

The unit traditionally operates between Akhnoor and Poonch areas in J&K.

It was this unit that held the Munawar Tawi Line against a Pakistani armoured thrust in Chamb sector in 1971, for the first time donning the role of a regular frontline unit to stem the Pakistani attack.

This year the unit has won one Shaurya Chakra and 10 Sena medals.

Ashok Chakra for Op Sarp Vinash martyr
 
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It's a fair point but a bit immature and naive. Actions are the only way to rate armies and espceially SOFs and if this is the case then Indian SOFs are up there with the best. It is true that in JK standards for uniforms are laxed but so what? A bullet is going to have the same trajectory when fired from soldiers in identical camo to those in this sort of dress.


Uniformity will be there when needed (NOTE some of the pics are NOT SF but regular airborne units):
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like the phrase your genuine or from any novel :) heheheh superb
 
Are they looking in to Chinooks for Special forces???

Maybe in a few years time. This year the IAF will sign the deal for 15 Chinooks to replace the Mi-26s and the IA has a requirement for a SOAR so once the Chinook is in service with the IAF it is a possiblity the IA may look at it for themselves.
 
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