Maj Aaruni Kant Sinha: The Braveheart Who Secured A Winter-Vacated Post Ahead Of The Enemy

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Major Aaruni Kant Sinha, a member of the 101 Kargil batch, displayed extraordinary bravery during the Kargil conflict by securing a strategically important winter-vacated post ahead of the enemy. Leading his unit through treacherous mountain paths and extreme conditions, Major Sinha's meticulous planning and unwavering resolve allowed his team to reclaim and fortify the post before the enemy could seize it. This operation provided a significant tactical advantage to the Indian forces, enabling better monitoring of enemy movements and launching subsequent operations from a position of strength. Major Sinha's actions earned him several military decorations and solidified his legacy as a courageous and strategic leader in Indian military history.     #25YearsOfKargil #MajAaruniKantSinha #KargilWarHero #Braveheart #WinterVacatedPost #KargilChronicles #101KargilBatch #VikramBatra #IndianArmy #MilitaryBravery #HeroicLeadership #KargilConflict #IndianHeroes #GallantWarrior #OperationKargil #Patriotism

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00:00What a youngster, while joining the army, is actually looking for is a piece of action.

00:10When you say action, you're looking at, okay, you've got a uniform, you're fighting for

00:17a cause, you know, fighting to save the motherland, you know, the integrity of the country.

00:21This is what actually is going on in your mind, nothing beyond that.

00:30I wanted to be independent very quickly.

00:35I wanted to get out of the house at the first given opportunity and be as little dependent

00:42on my parents as I possibly could.

00:45Then once I passed out of the NDA, it was a natural series of progression, wherein I

00:50ended up in the IMA.

00:53My first posting was in Siachen Glacier, I was in the thick of action most of the time.

00:59Even back then, there was intelligence that terrorists, they are going to go after the

01:03winter vacated posts.

01:05Back then, I was in a complex called Bagosha, which was in sub-sector best.

01:12We had this intelligence and we had to open it.

01:15I almost lost my left leg, you know, my left thumb in the entire effort.

01:19Because one odd day you are careless and that's good enough for the weather to teach you a

01:24lesson, right?

01:26From Siachen Glacier, I jumped into Kargil war.

01:29There were places where we were really fighting pitched battles with the terrorists.

01:33The thing is that when you are in the face of enemy, morale takes on a very different

01:40meaning altogether.

01:41At that point of time, you are completely focused, completely looking, completely seeing

01:46the entire, whatever is your area.

01:48101 was one of the few courses which was right at the forefront during the Kargil war.

01:59We saw the kind of action which had not been seen for the past 25 or more years.

02:05Very few courses can call themselves a PVC course.

02:07It's a tremendous honor being a part of 101, very humbling to a great extent.

02:12And I wouldn't choose any other course, even if I had the option.

02:19Vikram Batra was a, he was, I'm sorry to you, but he was absolutely crazy.

02:27He had a different level of josh.

02:29He was tremendously motivated, self-motivated.

02:33And where that came from, I do not know all about that.

02:39But he was very different in those sense.

02:45He was all out, he was all heart.

02:48And I was not at all surprised by the fact, not at all surprised by the fact, by what

02:53really happened during Kargil.

02:56It didn't surprise me one bit.

02:59If you're looking at the death of course mates, you were only questioning yourself,

03:07why am I not in that place, you know, why was I not in that place?

03:10Why wasn't that piece of action meant for me?

03:14And here we are to celebrate the course mates who have, you know, who did that kind of a

03:20spectacular job, bask in their reflected glory, live on, celebrate, remember them.

03:27So this is the task cut out for us and so on and so forth.

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