DEFENCE DIARIES

                                        Military Exercises of the Indian Army 2017 What are military exercises?  A military exercise or war game is the employment of military resources in training for military operations, either exploring the effects of warfare or testing strategies without actual combat. This also serves the purpose of ensuring the combat readiness of garrisoned or deployable forces prior to deployment from home base or home station. Types of military exercises 1. Field Exercises: It is the typical full-scale rehearsal of military maneuvers as              practice for warfare. 2. Command Post Exercise: A Command Post  Exercise (CPX) typically focuses on the battle readiness of staffs or one of its components at any level. 3.  Simulation: This type of exercises allows commanders to manipulate models through possibl...

Indian Air Force (IAF) has released the notification for AFCAT-1 exam(2018). AFCAT-1(2018) will be conducted online in February(2018). Online registration for will start from December 16. The last date to apply is January 14, 2018. The notification states that the candidates have to scan a QR code to apply online. To be eligible for flying branch through AFCAT, candidate’s age should be 20 to 24 years while it is 20 to 26 years for ground duty (technical and non-technical branch). AFCAT online test will consists of 100 questions from General Awareness, Verbal Ability, Numerical Ability, Reasoning & Military Aptitude covering 2 hour duration. This news broke out when online examination system for IAF was launched on 11 th  December 2017. IAF is now completely switching over to online testing of aspiring candidates The web portal for online examination is    https://afcat.cdac.in/AFCAT/   It was developed in collaboration with Centre for Development of Advanc...

" the basic character of hard work is already in my genes.I will ensure that i fulfill my duties in a manner that makes the country proud by working in the defence research and development stream  " Tears ran quietly from the eyes of Barnana gunnaya,a daily wage earner as his son YADAGIRI BARNANA got the prestigious Indian Millitary Academy's silver medal.The proud father used to work in a cement factory in hyderabad as a daily wage earner , making Rs.100 a day, unknown form the fact that his son was getting commissioned , the father said to his son that he was commiting a huge mistake refusing the lavish MNC's offer "My father is simple man ,he thought i was getting into the army as a soilder" said YADAGIRI , the budding soilder who denied a  job offer from UNION PACIFIC RAIL ROAD, a US based company after refusing a call from IIM Indore where he secured admission after scoring 93.4 percentille in the CAT exam. Yadagiri overcame extreme financial crun...

Here are a few quickies WHY TO ATTEND ALC ,  AKA SARKARI PAISE PE SSB TRAINNING 1.        SSB GUIDE – This is “the place” specially dedicated to SSB training ,you will get guidance from the screening to a personal interview 2.        FACULTY – Teachers are none other than the commanding officers ,SSB psychologists,GTO from the armed forces (in our case it was an officer from OTA) 3.        Conducive Environment – the place is buzzing with YEP cadets and probably the best from every directorate people who are seriously into the SSB thing which makes it quite a good learning platform 4.        No Drills – To be spared from hectic drill hours  is like a dream come true for any cadet and this happens at the ALC . All you need to do is EAT STUDY SLEEP AND REPEAT 5.        Best Food – don’t get too excited you wont ge...