Kolkata: Vice Admiral Atul Kumar Jain took over as the Flag Officer Commanding-in-Chief (FOC-in-C), Eastern Naval Command (ENC) from Vice Admiral Karambir Singh at an impressive ceremonial parade held at the the naval base at Visakhapatnam on Thursday. Vice Admiral Jain inspected the ceremonial guard and reviewed platoons of naval personnel drawn from various ships and establishments of the ENC and attended by all flag officers and commanding officers of ships, submarines and establishments. Vice Admiral Karambir Singh, the outgoing FOC-in-C will assume charge as Chief of the Naval Staff on promotion to the the rank of Admiral on Friday.
Commissioned into the Indian Navy in July 1982, Vice Adm Atul Kumar Jain is an alumnus of Sainik School Rewa, National Defence Academy, Defence Services Staff College (Wellington), the College of Naval Warfare (Mumbai) and the National Defence College (Pretoria, South Africa). He received his Masters in Defence and Strategic Studies from Madras University.
A Gunnery and Missile Specialist, Vice Admiral Jain held various operational, staff and command appointments in the course of his distinguished career spanning over 37 years. He commanded the missile boat INS Nirghat, missile corvette INS Khukri, destroyer INS Rajput and the indigenously built destroyer INS Mysore. He also had the privilege of being the commissioning executive officer of INS Brahmaputra and the fleet operations officer of the Eastern Fleet at Visakhapatnam.
On promotion to the flag rank in October 2011, he was appointed as the first Flag Officer Commanding, Karnataka Naval Area. Thereafter, he commanded the prestigious Eastern Fleet and also served as the Chief of Staff, HQ SNC. He was promoted to the rank of Vice-Admiral on April 1, 2015 while he was Controller Personnel Services (CPS). The Flag
Officer was holding the appointment of Chief of Staff, HQ ENC from Feb 16 to Dec 17 and Deputy Chief of Integrated Defence Staff at New Delhi prior to taking over as the FOC-in-C.
Source: ToI
Image Courtesy: Siasat
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