{"id":697,"date":"2019-03-09T16:16:02","date_gmt":"2019-03-09T10:46:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.defencewardsmatrimony.com\/blog\/?p=697"},"modified":"2019-03-09T16:16:02","modified_gmt":"2019-03-09T10:46:02","slug":"bravest-women-of-the-indian-armed-forces","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.defencewardsmatrimony.com\/blog\/bravest-women-of-the-indian-armed-forces\/","title":{"rendered":"Bravest Women of the Indian Armed Forces"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In recent years, we have witnessed how women have progressed and established themselves well in all the fields. Especially in the armed forces field, India has been\u00a0taking steps to crush gender barriers by enabling\u00a0women to serve onboard submarines, in ground combat positions and tank units<\/p>\n<p>2016 was the year when our president finally announced that women will be\u00a0allowed to take up combat roles in all sections of the Indian armed forces,\u00a0signalling a radical move towards gender parity in one of the world\u2019s most male-dominated professions.<\/p>\n<p>As we just finished celebrating Women&#8217;s Day, here we are proudly sharing with you\u00a0inspiring stories\u00a0of\u00a0India&#8217;s\u00a0most respected female\u00a0soldiers.<\/p>\n<p>With their impressive records, they have established new frontiers for women in combat!<\/p>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<h2>Padmavathy Bandopadhyay<\/h2>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-698 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.defencewardsmatrimony.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/tumblr_n4t3ysGfFO1ta84z0o3_1280-300x211.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"334\" height=\"235\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.defencewardsmatrimony.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/tumblr_n4t3ysGfFO1ta84z0o3_1280-300x211.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.defencewardsmatrimony.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/tumblr_n4t3ysGfFO1ta84z0o3_1280-400x281.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.defencewardsmatrimony.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/tumblr_n4t3ysGfFO1ta84z0o3_1280.jpg 570w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 334px) 100vw, 334px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Padmavathy Bandopadhyay was\u00a0the first woman Air Marshal of the Indian Air Force. She joined IAF\u00a0in 1968 and completed her Defence Service Staff College course in the year 1978, becoming the first woman officer to do\u00a0so. Not only that, she was the first woman officer to become an aviation medicine specialist, the first woman to conduct scientific research at the North Pole (she studied\u00a0the physiology of extreme cold acclimatization during the late 80s) and the first woman to be promoted to the rank of Air Vice Marshal and, last but not the least, she was awarded the Vishisht Seva Medal for her meritorious service during the 1971 Indo-Pak conflict.<\/p>\n<h2>Punita Arora<\/h2>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-699 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.defencewardsmatrimony.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/hqdefault-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.defencewardsmatrimony.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/hqdefault-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.defencewardsmatrimony.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/hqdefault-400x300.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.defencewardsmatrimony.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/hqdefault.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Born into a Punjabi family that moved to Saharanpur in Uttar Pradesh during Partition, Punita Arora is\u00a0the first woman in India to don the second-highest rank, Lieutenant General of Indian Armed Forces,\u00a0as well as the rank of Vice-Admiral of Indian Navy. Earlier,\u00a0she was the commandant of the Armed Forces Medical College in 2004, the first woman at the helm of the institute. She also co-ordinated medical research for the armed forces\u00a0as additional director-general of Armed Forces Medical Services (AFMS). Later, she moved from the Army to the Navy as the AFMS has a common pool that\u00a0allows officers to migrate from one service to another depending on the requirement.<\/p>\n<h2>Priya Jhingan<\/h2>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-700 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.defencewardsmatrimony.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Priya-Jhingan-enrolled-as-001-\u2014-the-first-lady-cadet-to-join-the-Indian-Army-300x158.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"158\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.defencewardsmatrimony.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Priya-Jhingan-enrolled-as-001-\u2014-the-first-lady-cadet-to-join-the-Indian-Army-300x158.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.defencewardsmatrimony.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Priya-Jhingan-enrolled-as-001-\u2014-the-first-lady-cadet-to-join-the-Indian-Army-400x210.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.defencewardsmatrimony.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Priya-Jhingan-enrolled-as-001-\u2014-the-first-lady-cadet-to-join-the-Indian-Army.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>On September 21, 1992, the feisty Priya Jhingan enrolled as 001 \u2014 the first lady cadet to join the Indian Army.\u00a0A law graduate, Jhingan had always dreamt of joining the army. In 1992, she wrote a letter to the Army Chief himself, asking him to let women in. A year later, he did, and Jhingan and the other 24 new female recruits began their journey. When\u00a0she retired, she said, \u201cIt\u2019s a dream I have lived every day for the last 10 years.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2>Mitali Madhumita<\/h2>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-701 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.defencewardsmatrimony.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/mitali-madhumita-300x142.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"142\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.defencewardsmatrimony.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/mitali-madhumita-300x142.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.defencewardsmatrimony.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/mitali-madhumita-400x189.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.defencewardsmatrimony.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/mitali-madhumita.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In February\u00a02011, Lt Col Mitali Madhumita became India\u2019s first female officer to receive the Sena Medal for gallantry, a decoration given to soldiers for exemplary courage during operations in J&amp;K and the northeast. Madhumita, who was leading the army\u2019s English Language Training Team in Kabul,\u00a0was the first officer to reach the Indian embassy in Kabul\u00a0that came under attack by suicide bombers on February 2010. Though unarmed, she literally ran close to 2 km to reach the spot,\u00a0personally extricated nearly 19\u00a0officers of the Army training team who were buried beneath the rubble and rushed them to hospital.<\/p>\n<h2>Divya Ajith Kumar<\/h2>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-702 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.defencewardsmatrimony.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/divya2_1421651304-300x211.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"211\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.defencewardsmatrimony.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/divya2_1421651304-300x211.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.defencewardsmatrimony.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/divya2_1421651304-400x281.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.defencewardsmatrimony.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/divya2_1421651304.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>At the age of 21, Divya Ajith Kumar\u00a0beat 244 fellow cadets (both men and women) to win the Best All-Round Cadet award and get the coveted \u201cSword of Honour,\u201d\u00a0the highest award given to a cadet of the Officers Training Academy. To achieve the \u201cSword of Honour,\u201d one must triumph the merit list, which comprises of P.T. tests, higher P.T. tests, swimming tests, field training, service subjects, obstacle training, drill tests, cross-country enclosures, among other things. The first woman to win this honour in the history of Indian Army,\u00a0Captain Divya Ajith Kumar led an all-women contingent of 154 women officers and cadets during the Republic Day parade in 2015.<\/p>\n<h2>Nivedita Choudhary<\/h2>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-703 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.defencewardsmatrimony.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/32665047630_e94c36831b-300x194.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"194\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.defencewardsmatrimony.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/32665047630_e94c36831b-300x194.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.defencewardsmatrimony.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/32665047630_e94c36831b-400x259.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.defencewardsmatrimony.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/32665047630_e94c36831b.jpg 457w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Flight Lt Nivedita Choudhary became the first woman from the Indian Air Force (IAF) to summit the Mt. Everest \u2013 and the first woman from Rajasthan to achieve this feat.\u00a0It was in October 2009 that Choudhary, an IAF officer who had just joined the squadron in Agra, chanced upon a broadcast calling for volunteers for IAF\u2019s women expedition to the Everest.\u00a0She volunteered, without realising that, three years later, she would do what no woman in the air force had ever done.\u00a0The other women on her team, Squadron Leader Nirupama Pandey and Flight Lieutenant Rajika Sharma, climbed the peak five days later.<\/p>\n<h2>Sophia Qureshi<\/h2>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-705 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.defencewardsmatrimony.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Sophia-Qureshi-300x260.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"260\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.defencewardsmatrimony.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Sophia-Qureshi-300x260.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.defencewardsmatrimony.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Sophia-Qureshi-400x347.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.defencewardsmatrimony.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Sophia-Qureshi.jpg 691w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Lt Col Sophia Qureshi of the Corps of Signals created history when she achieved the rare distinction of becoming the first woman officer to lead a training contingent of the Indian Army at Force 18, the ASEAN Plus multinational field training exercise held in 2016. She was also the only woman officer Contingent Commander among all ASEAN Plus contingents present for the exercise. An officer from the Corps of Signals of the Indian Army, 35-year-old Qureshi was selected from a pool of peacekeeping trainers to lead the Indian contingent.<\/p>\n<h2>Deepika Misra<\/h2>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-704 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.defencewardsmatrimony.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Deepika-misra-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.defencewardsmatrimony.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Deepika-misra-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.defencewardsmatrimony.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Deepika-misra-400x226.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.defencewardsmatrimony.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Deepika-misra.jpg 620w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In 2006, Deepika Misra\u00a0became\u00a0the first IAF woman pilot to train for the helicopter aerobatic team, Sarang.\u00a0It was during her passing out parade at Air Force Academy in December 2006 that Deepika Misra, then a Flight Cadet, first fell in love with the aerobatic displays by the Surya Kirans and Sarang, IAF\u2019s fixed-wing and rotary-wing aerobatic display teams respectively.\u00a0When the IAF sought women pilots to volunteer for the Sarang team in 2010, she jumped at the chance and was among the first to be inducted into the indigenous Advanced Light Helicopter squad.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.defencewardsmatrimony.com\">www.defencewardsmatrimony.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Reference<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>www.thebetterindia.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In recent years, we have witnessed how women have progressed and established themselves well in all the fields. 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