Breaking another glass ceiling in the Armed Forces, an all-female naval crew carried out the first independent operational maritime reconnaissance and surveillance mission in the North Arabian Sea aboard a Dornier-228 patrol aircraft.
The Navy said the “historic” mission took off from its frontline INAS 314 Air Squadron Porbandari Captained by Lieutenant Commander Aanchal Sharma, the other members were Pilots Lieutenant Shivangi and Lieutenant Apoorva Geete, and Tactical and Censor Officer, Lieutenant. Pooja Panda and Sub Lieutenant Pooja Shekhawat (see photo), on Wednesday.
“The five women officers received months of ground training and extensive mission briefings for the first such military flying mission. The aviation cadre of the Navy is expected to pave the way for women officers to assume greater responsibility and aspire to more challenging roles,” said Navy Spokesperson Commander Vivek Madhawali Told.
“The Navy has been at the forefront of transforming the Indian Armed Forces. Leading initiatives for women empowerment include induction of women pilots, selection of women air operations officers in the helicopter stream and conducting an all-women sailing expedition around the world in 2018.
In all, there are now 15 female fighter pilots. Indian Air Force There are also 145 women helicopter and transport aircraft pilots in the three services, while 28 officers have been deployed on frontline warships and 100 trained military police personnel. army,
Women are still a minority in the 1.4 million-strong armed forces, despite having been inducted as officers since the early 1990s. They number only 3,904 (Army 1,705, IAF 1,640 and Navy 559) in the nearly 70,000-strong officer cadre, despite a shortage of over 9,000 officers. There are separately 1,666 female doctors, 189 dentists and 4,734 nurses in the military medicine sector, as reported times of India Earlier
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