Gandhinagar: Air Marshal Devendra Singh Rawat today took over as the Senior Air Staff Officer of Southern Western Air Command of the Indian Air Force at Gandhinagar.

Air Marshal Singh was commissioned on 15 Dec 1980 in the flying branch of IAF. He has over 2300 hrs of flying experience on various fighter aircrafts in IAF inventory. Important courses undergone by the Air Officer include Fighter Combat Leader Course, Defence Service Staff Course, Higher Command Course at Army War College and Senior Defence Management Course at College of Defence Management. He is also an aluminous of National Defence College, Defense Spokesperson Wing Commander Abhishek Matiman said.

In 36 years of service, important appointments held by Air marshal include Command of a Missile Squadron, Chief Operations Officer of a fighter base, Station Commander of a frontline Air Defence Direction Centre, Deputy Commandant of College of Air Warfare, Air Officer Commanding of an important fighter base, Air-1 of South Western Air Command, Air Defence Commander of Southern Air Command, ACIDS (PP & FS) i.e, Asst Chief of Integrated Defence Staff (Perspective Planning and Force Structuring) at HQ Integrated Defence Staff, ACIDS (Financial Planning) and Air Defence Commander of Western Air Command.

Besides having being commended by the Chief of Air Staff and Air Officer Commanding in Chief Twice, he has also been awarded Vishisht Seva Medal and Ati Vishisht Seva Medal by the President of India.

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