![]() The honour, welfare and comfort of the men you command come next. Where have the thing gone wrong? After all these officers were selected and trained into the military ethos which is guided by the Chetwode Credo of the Indian Military Academy, that says, “The safety, honour and welfare of your country come first, always and every time. My experience tells that this organisation is crowded with great fire fighters, where the effort of all at first instance is to brush the things under the carpet. ![]() The country should be forced to think of the larger reasons that have gone wrong and force course correction. A permanent injury from insult and shame of getting assaulted by your own men is unfathomable. Why does the situation develop into an ugly scenario so fast and regularly these days where jawans gang up and thrash up the officers flushing down the drain rich traditions, customs and ethos that we have been boasting for more than a century now? It is difficult to even imagine what mental trauma these officers must have undergone. Over the past decade, there have been regular reports in the media on suicides, fragging and to add further insult the incidents of officers getting beaten up by their very own men they commanded. We need to carry out an analysis and act fast to restore the shaking Astha. And if this was not enough, the news of arrest of a colonel for highway robbery in Mizoram appeared in press.Īll these faith shaking revelations and allegations of corruption have a collateral price to be paid. The latest in the series being the allegations of the Military Secretary taking bribe for promotion. Well the story of corruption is not so new but the magnitude is ever increasing by the day. The horrific revelations of a former Air Chief having taken bribe in the VVIP Helicopter deal, has betrayed the faith of millions in uniform. …the question of, what has gone wrong with our Armed Forces should trouble us more? Probably far more than the incident of beheading our soldier by the Pakistani troops on the LOC.
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