{"id":62488,"date":"2019-05-30T11:57:13","date_gmt":"2019-05-30T11:57:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/?p=62488"},"modified":"2019-05-30T11:57:14","modified_gmt":"2019-05-30T11:57:14","slug":"iaf-chief-dhanoa-new-head-of-chiefs-of-staff-committee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/iaf-chief-dhanoa-new-head-of-chiefs-of-staff-committee\/","title":{"rendered":"IAF Chief Dhanoa new head of Chiefs of Staff Committee"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Air Chief Marshal BS Dhanoa on Wednesday received the baton of Chairman of Chiefs of Staff Committee from outgoing Navy Chief Admiral Sunil Lanba, who retires on Friday. The Chiefs of Staff Committee comprises chiefs of the Army, the Navy and the Air Force and the senior-most member is appointed its chairperson.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cAir Chief Marshal Birender Singh Dhanoa will be the CoSC Chairman with effect from May 31 consequent to relinquishment of charge by Admiral Sunil Lanba upon superannuation,\u201d a defence ministry spokesperson said.<br>\nThe Chairman of Chiefs of Staff Committee is tasked with ensuring synergy among the three services and evolve common strategy to deal with external security challenges facing the country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Air Chief Marshal Dhanoa is a Kargil War veteran and top-rated fighter pilot with over 3,000 hours of flying experience. An alumnus of Rashtriya Indian Military College and the National Defence Academy, he was commissioned in the flying branch of IAF in June 1978.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Air Chief Marshal has primarily flown the MiG-21 aircraft with flying experience across the entire spectrum of fighter aircraft of the IAF.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Air Chief Marshal BS Dhanoa on Wednesday received the baton of Chairman of Chiefs of Staff Committee from outgoing Navy Chief Admiral Sunil Lanba, who retires on Friday. The Chiefs of Staff Committee comprises chiefs of the Army, the Navy and the Air Force and the senior-most member is appointed its chairperson. \u201cAir Chief Marshal [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":62489,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[312,315],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62488","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-india","category-top-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62488","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62488"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62488\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62490,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62488\/revisions\/62490"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62489"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}