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Jammu, Nov 27 (PTI) Northern Army Commander Lieutenant General Y K Joshi on Saturday interacted with "Bravest of the Brave" veterans at a military station in Punjab and urged them to continue to strive to safeguard the nation from internal and external threats, a defence spokesperson said.
Over 300 veterans from Jammu and Kashmir, Himachal Pradesh and Punjab, including war heroes belonging to the 13th Jammu and Kashmir Rifles, attended the rally at Mamun Military station in Pathankot, Jammu-based Army Public Relations Officer (Defence) Lieutenant Colonel Devender Anand said here.
Many of the war heroes had served under Lt General Joshi"s leadership, who was the Commanding Officer of the 13th Battalion Jammu and Kashmir Rifles during the Kargil War.
During the 1999 war, the battalion launched four attacks under the leadership of its then Commanding Officer Joshi, with the most successful one on Point 4875 (now called Batra Top after Captain Vikram Batra).
The battalion was conferred with the honour of "Bravest of the Brave" besides several gallantry awards, the prominent ones being two Param Vir Chakras (Captain Vikram Batra and Rifleman Sanjay Kumar), eight Vir Chakras (including the Army Commander) and 14 Sena Medals.
“Many moments from those glory days were relived and stories retold amongst them,” the spokesperson said.