{"id":76582,"date":"2021-07-01T18:02:28","date_gmt":"2021-07-01T12:32:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsmakhani.com\/?p=76582"},"modified":"2021-07-01T18:02:28","modified_gmt":"2021-07-01T12:32:28","slug":"air-marshal-br-krishna-avsm-sc-assumes-the-command-of-western-air-command","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsnarad.com\/pa\/air-marshal-br-krishna-avsm-sc-assumes-the-command-of-western-air-command\/","title":{"rendered":"AIR MARSHAL BR KRISHNA AVSM\u00a0SC ASSUMES THE COMMAND OF WESTERN AIR COMMAND"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"qtranxs-available-languages-message qtranxs-available-languages-message-pa\">\u0a2e\u0a3e\u0a2b\u0a3c \u0a15\u0a30\u0a28\u0a3e, \u0a07\u0a39 \u0a16\u0a2c\u0a30 \u0a24\u0a41\u0a39\u0a3e\u0a21\u0a40 \u0a2c\u0a47\u0a28\u0a24\u0a40 \u0a2d\u0a3e\u0a38\u0a3c\u0a3e \u0a35\u0a3f\u0a71\u0a1a \u0a09\u0a2a\u0a32\u0a2c\u0a27 \u0a28\u0a39\u0a40\u0a02 \u0a39\u0a48\u0964 <a href=\"https:\/\/newsmakhani.com\/en\/\">\u0a15\u0a3f\u0a30\u0a2a\u0a3e \u0a15\u0a30\u0a15\u0a47 \u0a07\u0a71\u0a25\u0a47 \u0a26\u0a47\u0a16\u0a4b\u0964<\/a><\/p><p><\/p>\n<div class=\"MinistryNameSubhead text-center\"><strong>Delhi 01 JUL 2021<\/strong><\/div>\n<p>Air Marshal BR Krishna Ati Vishisht Seva Medal,\u00a0Shaurya Chakra,\u00a0took over as\u00a0Air Officer Commanding-in-Chief (AOC-in-C) of Western Air Command on 01 Jul 21.<\/p>\n<p>The Air Marshal was commissioned in the IAF in Dec 1983 as a Fighter Pilot. In a distinguished career spanning nearly 38 years, the Air Officer, being a Qualified Flying Instructor and an Experimental Test Pilot, has flown a wide variety of fighters, transports and helicopters in the inventory of IAF. He has a flying experience of nearly 5000 hours, including operational, instructional and test flying.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.pib.gov.in\/WriteReadData\/userfiles\/image\/CinCT-O01Jul-1UZVC.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/>During his illustrious career in the IAF, the Air Officer has held numerous important command and staff appointments.\u00a0 He was Commanding Officer of a frontline fighter Squadron, has commanded Air Force Test Pilots School, Chief Operations Officer of a forward base, Commandant\u00a0 Aircraft\u00a0 &amp; Systems Testing Establishment (ASTE) and has commanded a frontline Fighter\u00a0 base. As an Air Vice Marshal, he held the coveted appointments of Assistant Chief of Air Staff (Projects) and ACAS (Plans) at Air HQ.\u00a0 As an Air Marshal, he served as Senior Air Staff Officer, HQ SWAC and prior to taking over as the AOC-in-C, he held the appointment of Director General Air (Operations) at Air Headquarters.\u00a0 The Air Marshal is an alumnus of National Defence Academy, Defence Services Staff College Wellington and National Defence College.<\/p>\n<p>In recognition of a gallant act in the air, he was awarded Shaurya Chakra in 1986 and for the distinguished service rendered, the Air Marshal was awarded Ati Vishisht Seva Medal in 2017.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u0a2e\u0a3e\u0a2b\u0a3c \u0a15\u0a30\u0a28\u0a3e, \u0a07\u0a39 \u0a16\u0a2c\u0a30 \u0a24\u0a41\u0a39\u0a3e\u0a21\u0a40 \u0a2c\u0a47\u0a28\u0a24\u0a40 \u0a2d\u0a3e\u0a38\u0a3c\u0a3e \u0a35\u0a3f\u0a71\u0a1a \u0a09\u0a2a\u0a32\u0a2c\u0a27 \u0a28\u0a39\u0a40\u0a02 \u0a39\u0a48\u0964 \u0a15\u0a3f\u0a30\u0a2a\u0a3e \u0a15\u0a30\u0a15\u0a47 \u0a07\u0a71\u0a25\u0a47 \u0a26\u0a47\u0a16\u0a4b\u0964 Delhi 01 JUL 2021 Air Marshal BR Krishna Ati Vishisht Seva Medal,\u00a0Shaurya Chakra,\u00a0took over as\u00a0Air Officer Commanding-in-Chief (AOC-in-C) of Western Air Command on 01 Jul 21. The Air Marshal was commissioned in the IAF in Dec 1983 as a Fighter [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":76587,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14701,109,122],"tags":[41486,41488,31300,8787,41487],"class_list":{"0":"post-76582","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-defence","8":"category-national","9":"category-news","10":"tag-air-marshal-br-krishna-ati-vishisht-seva-medal","11":"tag-aste","12":"tag-ati-vishisht-seva-medal","13":"tag-ministry-of-defence","14":"tag-shaurya-chakra"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsnarad.com\/pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76582","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsnarad.com\/pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsnarad.com\/pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsnarad.com\/pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsnarad.com\/pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76582"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsnarad.com\/pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76582\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsnarad.com\/pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/76587"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsnarad.com\/pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsnarad.com\/pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsnarad.com\/pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}