The Indian Air Force (IAF) held a two-day Commanders’ Conference of its Western Air Command (WAC) on 6 and 7 December in New Delhi. Air Chief Marshal AP Singh, Chief of the Air Staff (CAS), graced the event as the chief guest. On his arrival, he was received by Air Marshal PM Sinha, Air Officer Commanding-in-Chief (AOC-in-C) of WAC, and was accorded a ceremonial Guard of Honour.
During the conference, the CAS interacted with the Commanders of the WAC AoR, and discussed the need to pursue training for ensuring the capability to fight and win multi-domain warfare. He emphasised on the theme for this year “Bharatiya Vayu Sena – Sashakt, Saksham, Atmanirbhar”, and sought the collective capability, capacity and commitment of all commanders to take the IAF to even greater achievements. He emphasised on the need to achieve focused progress in various areas, which include increasing operational capability through better training and planning; early operationalisation of newly inducted equipment; safety and security, and nurturing leaders by empowering individuals at all levels to turn into a future ready and cohesive force.
The CAS in his address, complimented WAC for being the first responders to calls for HADR, both within India and abroad; maintaining high operational excellence to ensure an always ready’ formidable fighting force, and always keeping IAF core values of ‘Mission, Integrity and Excellence’ foremost.
