This thread is dedicated to Lieutenant Kiran Shekhawat—the first lady Naval officer to have been martyred in the line of duty.
Lieutenant Kiran Shekhawat was born on 1st May, 1988 into the family of Master chief Petty officer Vijendra Singh Shekhawat and Madhu Chauhan.
She is a notable alumni of Kendriya Vidyalaya-2 in Vishakhapatnam and after completing her schooling, she graduated from Andhra University. After that, she joined a private bank, but all she had inside was her desperate will to serve the motherland at any cost!
& she knew that working in a bank won’t be of much help for that cause. So, this young girl joined a regimented honorable life in the Navy, & finally, a happy family was overjoyed to hear the news of her being commissioned on 5/7/2010 in the glorious INAS 310 Naval Air squadron.
She had the honor to join a glorious squadron like this that had once taken part in the Bangladesh Liberation war in 1971—launching air raids on Chittagong and Khulna ports right from the runway aboard the INS Vikrant—raining down fire on the Pakistanis stuck down at the port.
Popularly known as the Cobras—the INAS 310 Squadron was one of the oldest Indian Naval Air Squadrons raised on 21st March, 1961, with French Breguet Alize anti-submarine aircrafts being the first aircrafts to be inducted for the fight.