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During his three day tour to the North East Region from 12-14 Dec 2011 with first visit to the Eastern Air Command Head Quarters at Shillong, the subsequent two days, saw Air Chief Marshal NAK Browne visit the airbases Chabua and Tezpur to oversee the development of SU-30 infrastructure at the two bases.

He visited the local units and important installations of the two bases and interacted with Squadron pilots and engineers besides all the station personnel and key appointments. At Tezpur Lieutenant General Shakti Gurung, General Officer Commanding 4 Corps also met the Air Chief.

Addressing the officers, the Air Chief said, “The reason for my visit is that I wanted to see firsthand how things are at the bases. Your station is undergoing fair amount of transformation in terms of new inductions, keep operations upfront in your focus, but along with these changes that we talk about, it is our people, our air warriors who must receive our highest attention, in terms of their quality of life, training, mentoring and grooming. We should be able to ensure that right down to the last man in our system understands what we are doing. We should be able to channel our energies to a common task and our endeavour should be to uplift the quality of everything we do, a notch higher.”

The visit to Tezpur, where the Air Chief was received by Air Commodore Sandeep Singh, Air Officer Commanding, Air Force Station,Tezpur and Mrs Kamini Singh, President Air Force Wives Welfare Association, brings back old memories for the Chief who was posted to 4 squadron at the base, flying MiG-21s way back in 1974.
 
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The Chief of the Air Staff, Air Chief Marshal N.A.K. Browne reviewing the ‘Guard of Honour’ on his arrival at Air Force Station, Tezpur on December 14, 2011.
 
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The Chief of the Air Staff, Air Chief Marshal N.A.K. Browne reviewing the ‘Guard of Honour’ on his arrival at Air Force Station, Tezpur on December 14, 2011.

The Guard Commander's holster seems empty!
 
Not really.. check the bulge..

For a millisecond I thought the bulge was chap number 5 from the right in the front row.
His lower abdomen area is bulging out a bit too much.

And yes.. you are right about there being weapon.
Its the damn holster that is too big. In the unlikely case that he does have to use it.. he really wont be able to get that out at all.
 
For a millisecond I thought the bulge was chap number 5 from the right in the front row.
His lower abdomen area is bulging out a bit too much.

And yes.. you are right about there being weapon.
Its the damn holster that is too big. In the unlikely case that he does have to use it.. he really wont be able to get that out at all.

It was actually a safety measure put in after Rajiv Gandhi was attacked in Sri Lanka during a guard of honor. The holster is also sewn shut..
 
It was actually a safety measure put in after Rajiv Gandhi was attacked in Sri Lanka during a guard of honor. The holster is also sewn shut..

I don't understand, it was not a member of the Indian military who killed Rajiv Gandhi. The members of the Indian armed forces are utter professionals who have a unwavering sense of honour, why the need for such measures?
 
I don't understand, it was not a member of the Indian military who killed Rajiv Gandhi. The members of the Indian armed forces are utter professionals who have a unwavering sense of honour, why the need for such measures?

Rajiv Gandhi was killed by LTTE cadres that too only when he repeatedly stone walled IB's security inputs and broke away from his security cordon into the common people.... I would say he was killed by his own naivety.

Rather I would guess Indira Gandhi to have been killed by army guard, even in that case she disregarded RAW inputs to her own peril...
 
I don't understand, it was not a member of the Indian military who killed Rajiv Gandhi. The members of the Indian armed forces are utter professionals who have a unwavering sense of honour, why the need for such measures?

When Rajiv Gandhi was attacked (much before he was killed) during a guard of honor, it was realized that even serving soldiers could be used by terrorists to execute an attack. So this was added as a safety precaution..I remember being told about it by a journalist way back in 2001
 

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