jakharanil
November 23rd, 2009, 08:43 AM
SOARING TO NEW HEIGHTS: Sub-Lieutenants Ambica Hooda, who will be inducted as the Navy’s first women observers (airborne tacticians), seen here after their standardisation test on a Dornier aircraft.
Sub-Lt. Ambica, from Rohtak in Haryana, didn’t have a clue when she filled up the application form after graduation that she would go down in history as one of the first two women combatants in the Navy. Her father served in the Army, but an uncle in the Navy encouraged her to strive for a different role. Still excited about their first Dornier sortie, she says a gender-sensitive infrastructure had already fallen in place when their training commenced. “I am ready to handle any role I am asked to perform,” she said.
http://www.thehindu.com/2009/11/18/stories/2009111855341800.htm
Sub-Lt. Ambica, from Rohtak in Haryana, didn’t have a clue when she filled up the application form after graduation that she would go down in history as one of the first two women combatants in the Navy. Her father served in the Army, but an uncle in the Navy encouraged her to strive for a different role. Still excited about their first Dornier sortie, she says a gender-sensitive infrastructure had already fallen in place when their training commenced. “I am ready to handle any role I am asked to perform,” she said.
http://www.thehindu.com/2009/11/18/stories/2009111855341800.htm