Air Marshal Subhash Bhojwani is a former

air officer An air officer is an air force officer of the rank of air commodore or higher. Such officers may be termed "officers of air rank". While the term originated in the Royal Air Force, air officers are also to be found in many Commonwealth nations ...

of the

Indian Air Force The Indian Air Force (IAF) is the air arm of the Indian Armed Forces. Its complement of personnel and aircraft assets ranks third amongst the air forces of the world. Its primary mission is to secure Indian airspace and to conduct aerial w ...

. He last served as the Air Officer Commanding-in-Chief Training Command between 2004 and 2006. His prior commands included those as the Commandant of

Air Force Academy, Dundigul Indian Air Force Academy, Dundigal is a Defence Service training institute located in Medchal-Malkajgiri district from Hyderabad, in the Indian state of Telangana. The academy was set up to train cadets from Indian Airforce Service cadre o ...

and as the Commanding Officer of 28 Squadron. He served as the Director of Air Operations (Offensive) during the 1999

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. He earned a Mention-in-Despatches for combat operations during the

Indo-Pakistani War of 1971 The Indo-Pakistani War of 1971 was a military confrontation between India and Pakistan that occurred during the Bangladesh Liberation War in East Pakistan from 3 December 1971 until the Pakistani capitulation in Dhaka on 16 Decem ...

Service career

Subhash Bhojwani was commissioned into the Indian Air Force (IAF) on 16 October 1965. As a

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in the

No. 1 Squadron IAF No. 1 Squadron (''The Tigers''), the oldest squadron of the Indian Air Force operates as a multirole ( air superiority and electronic warfare) unit. Part of 40 Wing of the Indian Air Force under Central Air Command, it is based at Maharajpur in ...

during the Indo-Pakistan War of 1971, he earned a

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for combat operations. Bhojwani went on to become the

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of the

No. 28 Squadron IAF No. 28 Squadron, Indian Air Force, nicknamed ''The First Supersonics'' is a squadron of the Indian Air Force (IAF). It is currently based in Adampur, Punjab with the Western Air Command and flies Mikoyan MiG-29s. History The squadron's role is ...

. He has served as a frontline combat pilot on a number of fighter aircraft, including the

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MiG-21 The Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-21 (russian: Микоян и Гуревич МиГ-21; NATO reporting name: Fishbed) is a supersonic jet fighter and interceptor aircraft, designed by the Mikoyan-Gurevich Design Bureau in the Soviet Union. Its nickna ...

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and

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. During the

in 1999, then Air Commodore Bhojwani served as the Director of Air Operations (Offensive). Following the war, he served as the

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. He was appointed the Senior Air Staff Officer (SASO) of the

Western Air Command , colors= , colors_label= , battles= 1962 Sino-Indian War, 1971 India-Pakistan War, Operation Meghdoot , anniversaries= , commander1= Air Marshal Sreekumar Prabhakaran, AVSM, VM , commander1_label= Air Officer Commanding-in-Chief(AOC-in-C) , n ...

(WAC) in 2002. Air Marshal Bhojwani was appointed the Air Officer Commanding-in-Chief (AOC-in-C) of the Training Command (TC) in 2004. He retired from the Indian Air Force on 31 January 2006. He has a post-graduate degree in Defence & Strategic Studies from the

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. He was named a Fellow of the Australian College of Defence & Strategic Studies in 1997.

References

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