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9 Dec

I received this message written by a serving senior officer posted at the Defence Services Staff College, Wellington on WhatsApp, one of the sanest related to #Helicopter crash, which I thought I must share with everyone.
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1/18

Update from Wellington
To all my civilian friends,
I appreciate the love and concern that is being shown for the loss of the brave men that died in the chopper crash in the Nilgiri hills, close to Wellington.
2/18

The CDS was to arrive with his wife, his team of officers and men to address the staff college course presently being conducted here. The helicopter, the latest in India’s holdings, took off from Sulur Air Base.
3/18

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Commander Ashok Bijalwan 🇮🇳

@AshTheWiz

17 Nov

Military’s Murphy Laws…
(Via WhatsApp)
● Never share a bunker with anyone braver than yourself.
● Never forget that your weapon was made by the lowest bidder.
● Five-second fuses always burn in three seconds.
● The easy way is always mined.
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#Military #MurphysLaw

● Teamwork is essential; it gives the enemy other people to shoot at.
● If you are short of everything but the enemy, you are in the combat zone.
● Incoming fire has the right of way.
● No combat-ready unit has ever passed inspection.
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● No inspection ready unit has ever passed combat.
● If the enemy is within range, so are you.
● The only thing more accurate than incoming enemy fire is incoming friendly fire.
● Tracers work both ways.
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Commander Ashok Bijalwan 🇮🇳

@AshTheWiz

1 Oct

@SSBCrackExams

An interesting article. It should make a good read for all SSB aspirants as well as IOs, GTOs and Psychologists, including those who are coaching kids for the SSB. Presented as a thread here.
@SSBCrackExams @simply_mixed_up @ZeOldMonk

ANGULAR PERSONALITIES OF THE DEFENCE SERVICES: Part 1
By Brig BL Poonia, VSM (Retd)

What is an Angular Personality? These are the people whose personality graph at some point shows a prominent kink. They are generally difficult people. But how do we define difficult people? 1/15

They are a 'miniscule minority' who are capable of making the lives of others difficult. In a social group, they are capable of screwing the happiness of even a matured majority. They always want to remain in the limelight and dominate various social groups without having... 2/15

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Commander Ashok Bijalwan 🇮🇳

@AshTheWiz

23 Jun

This is an inspiring real story involving an ex Army officer, who after retirement, was working with the Syndicate bank. There are not many people like this soldier. He is Col AK Jayachandran of 12 ASSAM.
Read on in is his own words...
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In life there are some days when one feels terrible & some days, when one feels really good from within. One such happened on a Friday evening at around 7 pm last year in Sep. I was set to go home from the Bank. One clerk & an officer were all who remained in CPPC.
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The phone rang. I hesitated for a minute & picked it up. It was a Veteran Honorary Captain. He was irate & sounded quite fed up. To cut a long story short, he'd approached his bank's branch to settle his dues from his son's pension, which had not been correctly calculated.
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Commander Ashok Bijalwan 🇮🇳

@AshTheWiz

20 Nov 20

An interesting tale about submarines.
A Soviet submarine ran aground on Sweden's south coast very close to a Swedish naval base in 1981. They claimed it was due to an emergency and navigation errors, but Sweden took it as attempted snooping by the USSR in Swedish waters.
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The sub returned but Sweden was on alert, convinced that Russian subs could still be lurking off their coast. Soon they began to pick up elusive underwater signals & sounds. Swedish subs, patrol boats, and helicopters started pursuing them for over a decade but to no avail.
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Each time, the search would reveal nothing but a few bubbles on the sea surface. Sweden was worried about the intrusions but couldn't fathom why, would Russia provoke them since the Cold War was long over.
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Commander Ashok Bijalwan 🇮🇳

@AshTheWiz

22 Jun 20

Shared by another Veteran Submariner. Makes a lot of sense to me. Read on...
No retired Chief Justice or Judge comes on the National TV and criticises the judgement delivered by the serving Judge. 1/5

No retired Bureaucrat ever criticises the order passed by the present Cabinet Secretary downward to the SDM. This domain is reserved for the Politicians as they have to fight the elections and gather votes. 2/5

Why the retired Generals come on the National Media and discuss the strategy and tactics of the present day LAC? Who is bothered about their irrelevant obsolete strategy in the present scenario? 3/5

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