30/07/2016
What Is Army ??
Army is:-
- When a cold and shivering jawan gets you a cup of hot tea on a patrol break at 13,000 feet.
- When your sixth sense tells you there is something wrong with a guy at 50 meters.
- When you meet with an accident and the first thing you check is the serviceability of your legs.
- When you speak the language of your boys.
- When you sit from dusk to dawn in an ambush on Valentine’s Day, you know army is giving you the red rose.
- When you are a master at pump stove,lanterns, solar lights, bukharis and travelling in trains without reservations.
- When you know more about cramps and cold injuries than your average
doctor.
- When a girl in the vicinity is indicated by clock-ray method.
- When only you can dig out the thing you want from your rucksack.
- When your pain submits to your will.
- When you find it funny when your relative says he’s going on a holiday to a hill station.
- When your profession is a matter of discussion during marriage proposals.
- When you know the real meaning of camouflage, in field, in parties, in unit routine and in your own house.
- When you can live, anywhere, with
anybody, on anything that nature can offer.
- When you know this LMG will be re-sited by everybody up the ladder, till it comes back to where you had sited it initially.
- When somebody asks, “Do you play Golf?” and you look at the brass on your shoulder and say “Not yet!”
- When you are the biggest consumer of foot powder, DMP oil, water sterilization kit, ORS packets and Meals Ready to Eat in the Army.
- When you are the only one to get trained in bayonet fighting. And expect it to happen.
- When your girlfriend thinks you are Rambo, Commando, Gladiator and
Braveheart, all rolled into one. Your Commanding Officer, by the way,
thinks you are none.
- When you get lost in a multiplex with signboards but are at ease in a jungle with a compass.
- When you can die for, what you have lived for.
People Call It Fear.
We Call It Life