Oh INDIA Why do I still serve you ?

How you play with us, did you ever see?

At Seven, I had decided what I wanted to be;

I would serve you to the end,

All these boundaries I would defend.

Now you make me look like a fool,

When at seventeen and just out of school;

Went to the place where they made "men out of boys" 

Lived a tough life. 

Sacrificed a few joys.

In those days, I would see my "civilian" friends,

Living a life with the fashion trends;

Enjoying their so called "college days" 

While I sweated and bled in the sun and haze.

But I never thought twice about what where or why

All I knew was when the time came, I'd be ready to do or die.

At 21 and with my commission in hand,

Under the glory of the parade and the band,

I took the oath to protect you over land, air or sea,

And make the supreme sacrifice when the need came to be.

I stood there with a sense of recognition,

But on that day I never had the premonition,

that when the time came to give me my due,

You'd just say, "What is so great that you do?"

Long back you promised a well-to-do life;

And when I'm away, take care of my wife.

You came and saw the hardships I live through,

And I saw you make a note or two,

And I hoped you would realise the worth of me;

but now I know you'll never be able to see,

Because you only see the glorified life of mine,

Did you see the place where death looms all the time?

Did you meet the man standing guard in the snow?

The name of his newborn he does not know.

Did you meet the man whose father breathed his last?

While the sailor patrolled our seas so vast?

You still know I'll not be the one to raise my voice

I will stand tall and protect you in Punjab and Himachal.

But that's just me you have in the sun and rain,

For now at twenty-four, you make me think again;

About the decision I made, seven years back;

Should I have chosen another life, some other track?

Will I tell my son to follow my lead?

Will I tell my son, you'll get all that you need?

This is the country you will serve

This country will give you all that you deserve?

I heard you tell the world "India is shining" I told my men,

that's a reason for us to be smiling

This is the India you and I will defend!

But tell me how long will you be able to pretend?

You go on promise all that you may,

But it's the souls of your own men you betray.

Did you read how some of our eminent citizens

Write about me and ridicule my very existence?

I ask you to please come and see what I do,

Come and have a look at what I go through

Live my life just for a day

Maybe you'll have something else to say?

 

I will still risk my life without a sigh

To keep your flag flying high

but today I ask myself a question or two…

Oh India…. Why do I still serve you?

MARCOS

MARCOS (previously named as Marine Commando Force (MCF)) is an elite special operations unit of the Indian Navy. "MARCOS" is short for "Marine Commandos".
The force started off as the Indian Marine Special Force, the first batch qualifying in February 1987. It was later renamed as the Marine Commando Force (MCF) in 1991. The force has gradually acquired experience and a reputation for professionalism over the two decades it has been in existence. It is one of India's highest trained and best equipped forces.
The force was initially trained by the other special forces of the country, including those under the Home Ministry, the Army, Air Force, Police and paramilitary units. This was later supplemented by foreign training facilities, notably the SEALS of the U.S. Navy. Over the years, the force set up its own training facility, first as an adjunct of the operational company at Mumbai, later as the Naval Special Warfare Tactical Training Centre. Wide exposure to different forms of warfare have been obtained through field operations in counter insurgency and anti terrorist operations within the country, and joint exercises with more than a dozen countries across the world.

Strength and operations

The MCF presently has approximately 2000 personnel,though actual strength remains classified.
Operations undertaken by MARCOS usually remains classified but some of the known Operations are:
 

• Operation Pawan (Hindi for Wind): Part of the Indian Peace Keeping Force (IPKF) in Sri Lanka in 1988.   Operation Cactus: Part of the Indian Navy contingent defending the democratic government of President Maumoon Abdul Gayoom of the Maldives from a coup. The force played a supporting role in India's successful military aid in helping foil the attempted coup by Sri Lankan militants from the PLOTE and ENDLF. A group of 47 mercenaries attempted to escape by sea with 23 hostages, on a hijacked vessel, MV Progress Light. The MCF was pressed into service along with INS Godavari, a multi role frigate carrying Seaking helicopters, Alize aircraft operating from the Navy's base at Kochi. INS Godavari trailed the hijacked vessel for a couple of days, firing intermittently with her guns on the vessel's superstructure. An Alize anti-submarine aircraft dropped two depth charges near the vessel, causing the motley collection of militants to come up on the upper decks and surrender. A contingent of the Marcos operating from Ratmalana Airfield on the outskirts of Colombo, with some help from the Sri Lankan Army in terms of specialised equipment, thereafter boarded the ship and accepted the surrender of the militants and took them into custody.    Operation Leech, which resulting in the slaying of a number of Burmese rebels at Narcondum Island in the North Andaman group of Islands. A small contingent of marcos was reputed to have been involved in the murky operation, which has found intermittent mention in various media.
• Operation Tasha, which was instituted after Operation Pawan wound up, and was more a coastal security operation on the Tamil Nadu coast to thwart operations of the LTTE there, than something belonging to the realm of special operations.
• Operation Swan, which was a similar exercise on the Gujarat and Maharashtra coasts, after the December 92 blasts in Mumbai, wherein the MARCOS were used for patrolling.
• The MARCOS are presently deployed at the Wular Lake in Kashmir, one of Asia's largest fresh-water lakes, where they have achieved significant success in counter insurgency operations against Kashmiri terrorists and Pakistani militants. They have earned notoriety among the terrorists who have given the MARCOS the nickname gharial(Alligator).
• Protecting offshore oil rigs and platforms. The MARCOS maintain a quick reaction team at Mumbai, to deal with threats to the offshore oil assets at Bombay High.
• Operation Black Tornado: MARCOS stormed the Trident and Taj Hotels at Mumbai during the recent terrorist attacks on 27 November, 2008 during the November 2008 Mumbai attacks , wounding one terrorist at the Taj, and sustaining two injuries. The second team deployed at the Trident Hotel at Nariman Point (the erstwhile Oberoi Towers) curiously failed to make contact with the militants there, later known to have holed up on the 18th floor, despite having spent hours in the hotel. The marcos were subsequently replaced by men from the National Security Guard on their arrival from Delhi later in the day, and withdrew to a supporting role.
• In its first ever action in the Gulf of Aden, MARCOS thwarted an attempt by pirates to capture the Indian merchant vessel MV Jag Arnav on November 11, 2008.
• On 13 December 2008 MARCOS units operating from the Indian Naval warship INS Mysore foiled a pirate hijack attempt of Ethiopian vessel MV Gibe off the Somali coast. In the process twenty three pirates were arrested

Training

Training includes the following:-
·    Open and closed circuit diving.
·    Basic commando skills including advanced weapon skills, demolitions, endurance training and martial arts.
·    Para training.
·    Intelligence training.
·    Operation of submersible craft.
·    Offshore operations.
·    Anti terrorist operations.
·    Operations from submarines.
·    Skydiving.
·    Various special skills such as language training, insertion methods, etc.
·    Explosive ordnance disposal techniques.

NSG

History

The National Security Guard (NSG) was set up in 1984 as a Federal Contingency Deployment Force to tackle all facets of terrorism in the country.  Thus the primary role of this Force is to combat terrorism in whatever form it may assume in areas where activity of terrorists assumes serious proportions, and the State Police and other Central Police Forces cannot cope up with the situation. The NSG is a Force specially equipped and trained to deal with specific situations and is therefore, to be used only in exceptional situations. The Force is not designed to undertake the functions of the State Police Forces or other Para Military Forces of the Union of India.
    The NSG was modelled on the pattern of the SAS of the UK and  GSG-9 of  Germany.  It is a task-oriented Force and has two complementary elements in the form of the Special Action Group (SAG) comprising Army personnel and the Special Ranger Groups (SRG), comprising personnel drawn from the Central Para Military Forces / State Police Force.  All the personnel are on deputation.

Role

The NSG is a Federal Contingency Deployment  Force to handle anti-hijack operations, rescue operations and to provide tough support to the Central Para Military Forces in dealing with anti-terrorist activities in whatever shape they may take place in different parts of the country

Tasks

  Initially, only one Force was raised and was entrusted with:
·   Neutralising  specific   terrorist   threat    in   any   given  area,     building,   vital  installation etc.
·   Engaging terrorists or  suspected  terrorists in a specific  situations in  order to neutralize them.
·   Handling hijack situations involving piracy in the air and / or land.
·   Rescue of hostages in kidnap situations.

Additional Tasks 
    The  following  were  the  additional  tasks  entrusted in 1986-87:
·     Security of high risk VIPs.
·     Anti sabotage checks of venues of visits / public meetings of VVIPs.
·     Anti hijack duties in domestic and international flights.
·     Immediate back up security operations.
·     Data collection on bomb explosions.
·    Training of State Police personnel in anti-terrorism, VIP security.
·     PSO duties and Bomb Detection and Disposal.

International Competitions

 10th International Combat Team Competition 2007 was conducted by GSG9 at  Bonn, Germany  from 02 Sep to 07 Sep 07.  A total of 50 teams of various elite forces, predominantly from Europe,  participated in the competition.  NSG team won the obstacles cum endurance competition,  a first for any team from Asian countries. 

   9th   International Body Guards  Tournament 2007 was conducted at Yalta, Ukraine from 17 Sep to 22 Sep 07.  A total of 27 teams from various countries participated.

NSG team had following achievements:-      
1st  position in Team Firing Competition.     
1st  position and competition Record  in individual Firing Competition  by Naik Raj Kumar.

Ek medal mila, Maa !

"Going through hell... Keep going," said a desk graffiti in one of the classrooms at the National Defence Academy. I am sure it's still there, the etchings deepened by those that came later. Tired fingers trying to find solace in tradition, in the words of a nameless cadet, and the knowledge that those that came before sweated, bled, cried and triumphed the same way. In many ways, these five words bring out the simple truth of the Indian soldier. Of the man who left home as a boy, with his fears and insecurities, holding the pain of his lost love or pining for someone, holding dear everything that a teenager holds dear. Wanting to win the world, like every adolescent, but unsure where to start. In the military academies they teach you to start with yourself. It's a painful process to tear off one skin and wear another but in the end the soldier comes out a better human being. The uniform stays with you for life, taking on all the grime, mud, blood and sweat - and pride - along the way. Sadly, nowadays, it's the specks of mud that seem to make all the news. A fake encounter in Kashmir, a woman raped in the northeast, an officer arrested for spying, a frustrated jawan shooting his officers… In a society hungry for titillation, aberrations pass for the truth. Finally, some of us feel, finally, the great Indian soldier has been pulled down from his pedestal. Finally, we see him for what he is - a common man, no better or stronger or nobler than you or me. Is it so? Nothing could be farther from the truth. The only thing true here is that yes, the soldier is an ordinary man. An ordinary man who has made extraordinary sacrifices, shown courage above and beyond the call of duty, gone farther than he thought he could, and had the courage to stand up every time the call came to be counted. How many of us can claim to have done that in our plush airconditioned offices, day after day? A soldier's courage is tested not just when he is in an encounter or when called to rescue someone from floodwaters. He is put to test every single day. The prize for passing this daily performance review? Not a superlative raise or a six-digit performance incentive. He simply retains the honour of wearing his uniform for another day. It takes extraordinary courage and pain to survive a single day of training in the academies or even the "routine life" in a regiment. A sacrifice that very few have the courage to make. To have an idea of how tough it is to get into the olive green uniform, here is a simple equation. For the IIT-JEE - for many the be-all-and-end-all of entrance examinations - about 1.5 lakh candidates vie for 3,000 IIT seats. And for NDA, the same number competes for just 320 seats. Do the maths. This is not to say that the NDA "rangruts" are brighter (heck, the really studious ones get plenty more front rolls and back rolls to bring them on the same level as the rest . It's just that they are one of a kind. A very special kind who know, when they sign up at age 17-18, that they are binding themselves to a life of immense hardship, silent sacrifices, incompatible pay, separation from families - but the satisfaction that their spine will always be ramrod straight. Ordinary boys like Arun Khetrapal, Sandeep Unnikishnan, Manoj Pandey, Yogender Singh Yadav, Nirmaljit Singh Shaikhon and Vijayant Thapar who turned into legends. (Can't recognize most of the names? Tell you later.) To give you an idea, one of them ran cross-country with a fractured leg - yes, a fractured leg - at the NDA just so he wouldn't let his squadron down. I refuse to believe that the boys who show such spirit, conviction and courage at such a young age would go about killing women and children. It is easier to believe that the sun goes around the earth. These soldiers do not ask for any favours. Just some understanding. Every officer I know is almost embarrassed to talk about his "heroism". "It's no big deal," they say. That's what they signed up for. A Paramvir Chakra winner, for instance, went home to nurse half a dozen bullet wounds, told his mother "Ek medal mila, Ma," and forgot to mention that he had singlehandedly captured a Pakistani position. Her mother knew only when his village heard it on the radio and mobbed his hut. Let us not make generalizations out of aberrations. The Indian soldier comes from a family like yours and mine. He is a part of society and is subject to the same pulls and pressures. Inflation pinches him, he has his own domestic problems, has elderly parents to look after, and is worried about the education of his child. He has his own insecurities and worries. And like every segment of society, there are a few rotten apples. There is no denying that. But just ask yourself how many such cases have you a heard of in the last decade? A handful? Out of the millions who donned the uniform in this time. The dirty ones are hauled up and thrown out faster than you pick a fly out of your soup. Justice in the forces is swift, certain and ruthless. Armchair judgments, they don't need.

Battle of Rezang La The Brave Ahirs

By 1962, the euphoria of Hindi-Chini Bhai Bhai had died down.
A full-scale war had broken out with the Chinese Army attacking on Namka Chu on 20 October 1962. On October 24th, 120 officers & jawans of the Ahir Charlie Company of the 13 Kumaon Regiment, almost all of them hailing from the Ahirwal region (southern Haryana), were airlifted from Hyderabad to the Chushul sector. They were deployed on the Rezang La Ridge to defend the highest air strip in the world located at 16,000 feet - just across the Chinese claim line. When the country was celebrating Diwali, a different scenario was unfolding in the Chushul sector. Chinese infantry in strength was moving up & in the early hours of November 18th, fighting broke out.

Artillery bombardment of the Indian outposts, airfield and brigade positions in the valley began in the small hours of November 18th and at first light infantry assaulted the Indians in their hill positions. Heavy mortars, recoilless guns and rockets softened the shallow Indian entrenchments, beaten off in frontal attacks. The Chinese moved to envelop the Indian positions, taking them from the flank or rear after savage hand-to-hand fighting. Of the Charlie Company, three of the wounded reached Battalion HQ in the valley, five were taken prisoner, the rest of the company were still in their positions.An Indian party climbed to Rezang La three months later on 11 February 1963 & found Indian Soldiers frozen as they died with weapons in hand. Only the Chinese dead had been removed, and evidence of the battle showed that there had been many. The Chinese troops, outnumbering the Indians by nearly 20 to one, the Indians were still skilled and determined soldiers who fought back fiercely against the overwhelming odds - enormous Chinese advantage in firepower and numbers - showing unparalleled chivalry and undaunted courage. It was natural that the Chinese suffered heavy casualties.

At one stage, having run out of ammunition, several jawans came out of the pickets and charged the enemy with bare hands - Lance Naik Ram Singh killing several Chinese soldiers after lifting and hitting them against the rocks. The brave Ahirs fought to the finish - to the last bullet and the last man - till their last breath. Even the enemy was so moved by their bravery that while retreating they covered the bodies of Naik Gulab Singh, Lance Naik Ram Singh and others with blankets and posted their rifles & bayonets by their bodies as a mark of respect.

The body of Major Shaitan Singh, Company Commander, was flown to Jodhpur where he was cremated with full military honours. Other bodies were laid to rest at Chushul itself where, later on, a memorial was erected. Major Shaitan Singh was posthumously decorated with the Param Vir Chakra, the highest gallantry award, whereas Jamadars Soorja Ram and Hari Ram, Naiks Hukam Chand and Ram Kanwar, Lance Naik Ram Singh and Sepoy Dharam Pal were posthumously awarded the Vir Chakra. Several others were honoured with Sena Medals.

I feel sad that I don’t have another son

"I feel sad that I don’t have another son and that my son wasn’t married and had no children as I would have sent them as well to serve the nation." These were the brave words of Capt. Devender Singh Jass's mother when asked if she was repenting the fact that her son joined the army after he laid down his life for the country in J&K. Such passion and such courage says everything there is to be said about the Indian Army. I felt a sense of disgust while watching a discussion on the Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AFSPA) 1958 in We the People, a programme that runs every Sunday evening on NDTV. Some so-called human rights experts were accusing the army for all the excesses taking place on the civilians in Kashmir and the North East. Such people conveniently ignore the hardships the Indian Army goes through to make sure that we, including them, are safe. Asking for cutting down the powers of the army in terrorism affected regions like the North-East or Kashmir is like asking Sachin Tendulkar to hold the bat with just one hand while playing cricket. Just that the repercussions in the case of the army are going to be of a much higher scale.

My heart goes out to civilians and their families who have lost their lives during army operations in Kashmir and other parts of the country. There have been accusations that some of these killings have not been fatalities due to the operations but paid killings. I won't say that it is totally untrue as there never is smoke without fire but branding the entire army in the same category and cutting down their powers is no solution to this problem. We must remember that there are bad elements in every group, so we need to have checks and balances in place so that such bad elements in the army are not able to misuse the power that they have been given to serve the nation. But saying that the powers have to be curbed for proper implementation is nonsense. People in favour of this cutting down of the powers highlight the fact that fatalities in Kashmir have come down from 4507 in 2001 to 377 in 2009 which according to them shows that the situation has improved. They just tend to ignore the fact that it is because of AFSPA and the efforts put in by our armed forces that this decrease has taken place. The terrorists have on their end got stronger through better arms & advanced technology. If we commit the fatal error of repealing AFSPA, the situation can become worse than ever before

Batalik

I thought it might be a good idea to talk about the borders which our Brave hearts are protecting.

 
Let me share some more information about Batalik Sector.
Batalik is a part of Indian Administered Kashmir which has been the epi-centre of all Indo-Pakistani wars. This place is situated in Ladakh (Leh) and geographically speaking, its coordinates are 34° 39' 25" North, 76° 20' 30" East
 

Going back to 1999, during the Kargil Conflict, the first intrusions of war, were infact detected in Batalik Sector but there was no media coverage since there weren’t any proper roads either. The Pakistani regulars & insurgents were sitting on the top and firing from all kinds of weapons, artillery, mortar & even small arms. Even a little piece of stone thrown from that altitude would hit with the speed of a bullet. It took almost a month and 400 lives to evict the intruders.
 

 In Batalik, you can't breathe normally. There isn’t enough oxygen and the layer of air is really thin. The lungs scream and blood vessels cry for oxygen. At 15000-ft, you are not normal. You cannot be. The human body is attuned to a certain altitude. And that's where our brave men are - Fighting the enemy, facing the bullets, dying alone in the snow. Falling to death from the high ridges. No one hears their voices. It's such a lonely death; All it takes is a tiny piece of metal to die
 

These bravehearts are none other than our own infantrymen - The finest in the world. Not many soldiers have ever fought at these heights. At 15000ft, you can't even move with ease.
 

In some areas of Batalik, there are no tracks. Climb. Clamber. Crawl. Every soldier carries almost a week's ration, ammunition, a 5.56mm assault rifle or a mortar or a rocket launcher - over 20 kgs in total, on the back as he pulls himself up on this rugged, cruel terrain.
 

You know how it feels to be up there in the cold, cold mountains, carrying a heavy backpack with a gnawing fear that you may not see your loved ones again? You know what fear is? That is the fear. Not being there. Death is not what matters. What matter is that you will not matter anymore.
 

And yet the bravehearts go up the hills, like the charge of the light brigade, never asking questions, never expecting an answer. .Imagine the life up there - where the wind can sear your windpipe, chill your brains, make your eyes weep with pain and lungs cry out in sheer exhaustion. This is what we call raw courage and determination: the commitment towards our mother-nation. There isn’t much time to sleep, to eat or to even attend the nature’s call. There is death and the courage to face it. There is fear – raw, unalloyed and unrelenting and the strong determination to fight for the nation, to die for the nation. All we know that there is a duty, a pledge and a promise made to the country. This is our tryst with destiny People sleep peacefully at night only because the bravehearts are awake.

The Heroes of Kargil - TRIBUTE

They'd promised their families they'd come back soon. They more than kept their word. Went as mere men. Came back as heroes. In coffins.

"THEY GAVE THEIR TODAY FOR OUR TOMORROW"

Over a 400 of them at last count. Median age 19 to 35.The grim-faced army officers receiving the coffins, draped in the tricolour, the carriage to the army parade ground, the set-jawed shok shastra farewell salute by steely soldiers. The silent sorrow of upraised guns, slowly brought, barrel downward, to the ground, left arm tautly extended to the right before retracking, the holding of palm to chest, the sudden dropping of head, the 30-second hushed silence, then the regulation rajnigandha and marigold wreaths from the army and air chiefs, the general officer commanding, fellow officers, the battalion, before the body escorted by a comrade begins its last journey home. Wreathed in white, the colour of the pure; kesariya, the colour and insignia of the brave. Now across mountains, now across rivers, plains.

The lines of pain criss-cross the entire nation.

They did it again. They have risen to defend our Kashmir from the aggression of the enemy. They are sacrificing their lives to defend Kashmir against the evil designs of Muslim fundamentalism. Our heroes of the defence forces are battling with the fundamentalist in KARGIL SECTOR and not allowing them an inch of the country to be occupied. They are forcing the fundamentalists out and have succeeded in their mission to a great extent.

Kashmiri Pandits all over the world are greatful to these worriors and brave sons of the land for defending the Kashmiri Pandit homeland " MEAJ KASHEER" (MOTHER KASHMIR). We the Kashmiri Pandits pay TRIBUTES to these young heroes through this page.

We are trying our best to get information of all the Heroes. If the names of some brave soldiers are not included in the list, it is only that we don't have information about him at present. As soon as we get the info we will put a seperate page for the hero.

OFFICERS (INDIAN ARMY)

* LT. COL. VISHWANATHAN
* LT. COL. VIJAYARAGAHVAN
* LT. COL. SACHIN KUMAR
* MAJOR AJAY SINGH JASROTIA
* MAJOR KAMLESH PATHAK
* MAJOR PADHMAPHANI ACHARYA
* MAJOR MARRIAPAN SARVANAN
* MAJOR RAJESH SINGH ADHIKARI
* MAJOR HARMIDER PAL SINGH
* MAJOR MANOJ TALWAR
* MAJOR VIVEK GUPTA
* MAJOR SONAM WANGCHUK
* MAJOR AJAY KUMAR
* CAPTAIN AMOL KALIA
* CAPTAIN KIESHING CLIFFORD NONGRUM
* CAPTAIN SUMEET ROY
* CAPTAIN AMIT VERMA
* CAPTAIN PANNIKOT VISVANATH VIKRAM
* CAPTAIN ANUJ NAYYAR
* CAPTAIN VIKRAM BATRA
* DY. COMMANDENT JOY LAL(BSF)
* CAPTAIN JINTU GOGOI

* LT. VIJAYANT THAPER
* LT. N. KENGURUSE
* LT. HANIF-U-DIN
* LT. SUARAV KALIA
* LT. AMIT BHARDWAJ
* LT. BALWAN SINGH
* LT. MANOJ KUMAR PANDEY


OFFICERS (INDIAN AIR FORCE)

* SQUADREN LEADER AJAY AHUJA
* SQUADREN LEADER RAJIV PUNDIR
* FLT. LT. S MUHILAN
* FLT. LT. NACHIKETA RAO
* SEARGENT PVNR PRASAD
* SERGEANT RAJ KISHORE SAHU

JUNIOR COMMISSIONED OFFICERS (INDIAN ARMY)

* Naik Chaman Singh
* Naik R Kamraj
* Naik Kudeep Singh
* Naik Birendra Singh Lamba
* Naik Jasvir Singh
* Naik Surendra Pal
* Naik Rajkumar Punia
* Naik S N Malik
* Naik Surjeet Singh
* Naik Jugal Kishore
* Naik Suchha Singh
* Naik Sumer Singh Rathod
* Naik Surendra Singh
* Naik Kishen Lal
* Naik Rampal Singh
* Naik Ganesh Yadav
* Havaldar Major Yashvir Singh
* Lance Naik Ahmed Ali
* Lance Naik Gulam Mohammed Khan
* Lance Naik M R Sahu
* Lance Naik Satpal Singh
* Lance Naik Shatrugan singh
* Lance Naik Shyam Singh
* Lance Naik Vijay Singh
* Naik Degender Kumar
* Havaldar Baldev Raj
* Havaldar Jai Prakash Singh
* Havaldar Mahavir Singh
* Havaldar Mani Ram
* Havaldar Rajbir Singh
* Havaldar Satbir Singh
* Havaldar Abdul Karim
* Havaldar Daler Singh Bahu
* Subedar Bhanwar Singh Rathod
* Rifleman Linkon Pradhan
* Rifleman Bachhan Singh
* Rifleman Satbir Singh
* Rifleman Jagmal Singh
* Rifleman Rattan Chand
* Rifleman Mohamad Farid
* Rifleman Mohamad Aslam
* Rifleman Yogendra Singh
* Rifleman Sanjay Kumar

SEPOYS (INDIAN ARMY)

* Grenadier Manohar Singh
* Gunner Uddabh Das
* Sepoy Amardeep Singh
* Sepoy Vijay Pal Singh
* Sepoy Virendra Kumar
* Sepoy Yashwant Singh
* Sepoy Santokh Singh
* Sepoy Dinesh Bhai
* Sepoy Harendragiri Goswami
* Sepoy Amrish Pal Bangi
* Constable Suraj Bhan (BSF)
* Sepoy Lakhbir Singh
* Sepoy Bajindra Singh
* Sepoy Deep Chand
* Sepoy Dondibha Desai
* Sepoy Keolanand Dwivedi
* Sepoy Harjindra Singh
* Sepoy Jaswant Singh
* Sepoy Jaswinder Singh
* Sepoy Lal Singh
* Sepoy Rakesh Kumar(RAJ)
* Sepoy Rakesh Kumar (Dogra)
* Sepoy Raswinder Singh
* Sepoy Bir Singh
* Sepoy Ashok Kumar Tomar
* Sepoy R. Selvakumar

(and many other hundred Unnamed Heroes)

Courtesy-2001 Kashmir Information Network.