"The Blue Collar" Speaks

 Dedicated to my beloved friend Late JWO Akhilesh Kumar Singh, VM on   his death Anniversary (25 Jun). Training centre is a strange place!  It,s whole new world for a school/college going Student !! Training Centres have got their own tradtion, culture, dress code, language and routine. Here takes the full transformation of a guy from teenager to a trained soldier and skilled technician.. Well kept,  hippie style hairs are  trimmed to zero cut, in place of colourful civil dresse, only blue and white color shirt and white, black color half pant is allowed. One can not count stars till late night remembering his girlfriend. He has to sleep by 10 PM . We UPians are habitual of eating Rotis in our meal but there you have to fill your stomach with rice as Rotis generally are hard to digest specially in dinner. One is introduced to new dishes like Idly, Dosa, Sambhar, Vada etc. Trainings Center is a  unique University  as well .It has got its own set of...

 The Silver Jubilee  celebration of The Surya Kiran Aerobic Team!!💐💐💐💐 The Surya kiran Aerobic team also known as SKAT (formerly Formation Aerobatic Team or FAT) which beleives in - "Excite the ordinary, impress the knowledgeable and frighten no one" celebrates it silver jubilee .  The team was formed on  27 May 1996 at Air Force Station Bidar  as part of 52 Sqn . It flew it's first formation on 15 Sep 1996 with 06 Kiran MK-2 Aircraft at Air Force Administrative College, Coimbatore.   The Surya kiran Aerobic team is the only 09 Aircraft formation team in Asia and among few in the world.  It has performed almost 600 dare devil shows  in and outside India. It was disbanded in the year 2011 because of shortage of Trainee Aircraft. But again resurrected in the year  2015  with Advance Jet Trainer Hawk Aircraft. Now  this team  performs its hair raising maneuvers with  09 Hawk and 04 Helicopters of Sarang Team, a uniqu...