Kargil veteran Birender Singh Dhanoa is IAF's new vice chief
June 01, 2015  19:13
Air Marshal Birender Singh Dhanoa, a Kargil war veteran, today took over as the vice chief of the Indian Air Force.

He succeeds Air Marshal Ravi Kant Sharma demitted the office yesterday, after 40 years of service in the IAF.

Dhanoa was commissioned in the IAF in June 1978 as a fighter pilot. He is an alumnus of Rashtriya Indian Military College, the National Defence Academy and the Defence Services Staff College, Wellington.

Dhanoa is a qualified flying instructor and has flown various types of fighter aircraft in his career. During the Kargil operations, he commanded a fighter squadron and himself flew numerous night-strike missions in the mountainous terrain, an IAF statement said.

He has the distinction of having held a number of the important operational appointments including Station Commander of a fighter base and leader of an Indian Military Training Team abroad.
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