Jobs In Indian Army, Navy And Airforce Are A Matter Of Pride And Also Provides A Good Future

Indisputably, the armed forces in India are considered as the leading instruments of fighting for peace. People who serve in these areas have made India proud by working on maintaining its integrity and upholding its constitution. It is an obvious fact that the armed force personnel are respect like no one and these jobs have been considered as a matter of prestige.

One cannot deny the fact that there is a risk factor that lurks in these jobs, as certainty of war and life is never known. But, still then, people who work under the three wings of armed forces are honoured lots, who fight for the country. Post independence, the enthusiasm for getting into a job in the forces was quite high.

People used to choose these jobs in Indian army, first, over other prospects. Gradually, the fervour started waning to an extent that there were huge deficiencies in the three sections of armed forces.

People didn’t like to take up jobs in Indian airforce or navy as they received better pay packages from the private companies, as well as could stay near their homes and dear ones.

The requirement of officers in Indian army was high and there was a huge difference among the interested candidates and the number of seats. In the present days, the shift has become a bit positive with increased salaries and perks like pensions. Also, the rules regarding the posting have also been altered a lot, enabling the inductees in jobs in navy, or army, to get good areas of posting. Sacrifice is a necessary virtue in these people. But with better assurances of the family’s future, in their absence, the armed forces are looking at a significant return of the favour that it had in the old days.

Of the three wings, the jobs in Indian navy has always had a special attraction for people, as it allowed the recruits to work and move in ships and there were ample opportunities to move to foreign shores. The work was challenging but the benefits that came with it, were readily acceptable by people. But, not many are able to get through these jobs in the navy wing, as the seats for the officers in navy and airforce are limited, while those in the army are much more.

Inspite of this fact, the jobs in Indian army have been recently filled by regular recruitment. The officer posts are for students who enter into the Indian Military Academy or National Military Academy through the national tests, for which the students are eligible after their intermediate or +2 exams. After a few years of training and studies in these institutes, people can go forward to make their selections in the respective streams.

It requires mental toughness and physical strength with the ever necessary grit and determination, to pass through the training phases. The officers in the Indian army, navy and airforce are training in various subjects so that it enables them to give their very best in the planning, strategy and execution of different plans, when the test of time arrives.


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Defense jobs- Deface viz-a-viz Army, Navy, Airforce and Coast Guard

Have you ever thought of getting into defense but you were not having enough knowledge as to how to work upon it? Well it is very simple. Defense jobs come out twice every year for they need to take two batches every year. One is for January and other is for July. And the selection procedure is for say about 3 months, which obviously includes the medical checkup time and the result waiting time. With four forces in deface viz-a-viz army, navy, airforce and coast guard, the no. of vacancies that they provide are huge. But the selection percentage is very less; for they are looking for people with crisp knowledge f everything. They have certain qualities in their mind and they judge you according to them only. You can never guess out what these officers look for.

The test procedure begins with a preliminary test of say about one hour where they need to know what your basic knowledge is.

This test is very easy but they have a certain score that you need to get in order to clear the exam. Once you are through with it, you will be interviewed on a very basic term, i.e., how much presentable you are. After these two stages, your result will be announced in say a time period on maximum one month. All those who clear the PSB which is preliminary selection board will be referred for FSB which is final selecting board.

In final selection you will have to clear 3 stages of exam. First one is your psychometric test where you will be shown several pictures and you need to write a story on them in the given period of time, then the test will continue with a word on screen and you will have to write a sentence on them and this test will end with a situation reaction test, where you will be given say about 60 different situations and you will have to react on them and write them down. Try not to make a hero out of yourself as it will kill your score. Try to as realistic as you can be and write down anything that comes into your mind. All you need is a positive outlook for this. Next day will be your GTE that is your group task exercise where you will be divided in certain group then a situation will be given to you that you will have to solve as a group,. Then the test will have a group discussion on any topic and will end with an extempore. These will be your test for second day. For this you need confidence that’s it, Third day is your interview day where an officer will interview you and will ask questions from your resume that they will ask you to fill there. Then last day will be your conference day where the selected candidates will be informed about their selection. Except for coast guard all the other forces also have certain physical exercises. The selected candidates will then be informed about their medical test dates. And after clearing that you will be certified as an officer.

This is one of best and most prestigious job that one can get. Not just this even the salaries are very good and you also get a chance to visit abroad for training. This is one the best jobs one can get so prepare well and as they say, luck favors those who favor themselves.


 


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AirForce C.A.P. Emergency Services Search and Rescue And New Radios

C.A.P. Emergency Services exercises are known as SAREX's. The practice involves assembling a gathering of ground teams that coordinate search and rescue with Cap airplane crews. The U.S.A.F. calls Cap for an actual mission usually when an airplane is reported overdue or missing or when an emergency locator transmitter E.L.T. is monitored on an a/c vhf frequency. This activity is rewarding to Cap members who volunteer to help locate missing persons or provide rescue assistance in disasters. We make extensive use of vhf and HF 2 way radios to do the jobs.

Actually I was thinking there might just happen to be some of those here that might have taken part of that training/exercise, out of curiosity. You see I'm a member of the local Amateur Radio Emergency Service (A.R.E.S.) and Radio Amateur Civil Emergency Service (R.A.C.E.S.), I'm also considering becoming part of the Citizen Emergency Response Team (C.E.R.T) and with me being a veteran of the US Air Force also having served as a civilian Police Officer at the Dothan Airport (in Alabama) I have an interest in this.

Well at least I got a dialogue started here now I'll just have to wait and see if there are any Alabama CAP members to join in the discussion.

Alabama Cap members to join in the discussion. You'll find that there are many members of A.R.E.S. that are also members of Cap. The Vertex 150 for example (even if being phased out in Cap) can cover all the Cap repeaters as well as the ham repeaters.

Although we still generally call them "SAREXs", most incorporate disaster relief/photo reconnaissance tasks into the scenarios now. I don't pretend to follow C.A.P Communications closely at all, but I recently did see an article saying that every CAP repeater in the country was getting replaced.

The change in repeaters doesn't change my post.

But the change to narrow band does. After Oct 2007, all Cap radios must be narrow band, which means the market will be flooded with used personal radios (unless the member is also a ham) The change also means that Cap communications will be severely limited because of the cost of radios that comply with the new standards. Many members can't afford the price of the radios.

Would there be any type of grants available to Cap squadrons to help purchase these new compliant radios? If the individuals are required to purchase their own, then yes with the higher cost it will most likely cut down the number of available radios which in turn could severely limit the missions' capabilities.

Right now in the Amateur world there is some digital technology that is becoming available and it's quite expensive. Once it is more available the price may come down and just in case anyone is wondering what I'm talking about, it's D-STAR.

Cap radios and such, what was/is the reason for changing radios in the first place? Seems like having the H.A.M. radios that can be easily modified for Cap and or M.A.R.S. use would, or should have been the way to continue but then again I guess there are many pros and cons to be considered.

If the new compliant radios are going to be that expensive to which some or many members can not purchase them then how can Cap perform its missions to the high degree it normally does? These question may have already been asked and answered elsewhere in this forum but please entertain me for awhile and let's open up a discussion about those new compliant radios and what the best possible solution may be.

But Cap members aren't required to purchase their own stuff. They may do so if they want extras. National developed plans based on what they thought each unit needed and has been distributing radios based on that plan, including handheld and mobile (vehicle) units.

I think we are probably still somewhat lacking in handheld units for ground teams, however keep in mind that National never really used to issue them at all and those were sort of member/unit purchases. So, things are improving. As to the quality of the radios, I'm not an expert on them, just a user.

I know that Cap has been programming in other frequencies into the radios that might be helpful and at least at the state level there is some movement towards getting Cap radios from the state that will work with local forces. Not sure how widespread that is. Given that a lot of states are still struggling with that issue for their primary response agencies, Cap probably isn't at the top of their agendas.

This process has been going on for almost 10 years so it's something we've been dealing with for a while. Since the A.F. has ponies up a lot of money to buy radios, it has eased a lot of worries that were there at the beginning. Probably a lot of members who did have equipment that met the old standards which is no longer usable probably aren't too happy about it, but realize there is nothing Cap could have done to change things.