'Know Your Armed Force' drive held

The 12 Wing Air Force Station Chandigarh organised an outreach programme under Central Government’s Know Your Armed Forces drive as a part of Independence Day celebrations on Tuesday. The outreach programme was organised for civil public and school and college going children to showcase the working of Air Force Station, the working of transport base, how the Air maintenance of forward area is carried out by different types of transport aircrafts, their maintenance, Met and ATC operations and at the same time to motivate youth to join armed forces. 

During this programme several school and /ollege going children, civil public and families of paramilitary organisations were invited to visit Air Force Station Chandigarh on Tuesday. First they were taken to Hangar where they were shown movies on Air Force history, air maintenance over forwarded areas, and different tasks carried out by Air Force. 

Different stalls depicting their role in Air Operation were set up in the hangar and were described by the respective representative to the visitors. No 1 Air NCC also put up its stall and displayed the aero modeling to school children.The visitors saw Il-76 (Gajraj) aircraft, AN-32 (Sutlej) aircraft, and the largest helicopter in the world-MI-26. The specialist Missile launch vehicle used by missile squadron and other vehicle used for maintenance of the above mentioned aircraft were also displayed.

Air Officer Commanding 12 Wing, Air Force Air Commodore S K Indoria, talked about the modern development and technologies in IAF. He underlined the importance of IAF’s vision statement ‘People First Mission Always’ and stressed the need for self-reliance.