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New Adjutant-General takes charge

By Our Special Correspondent

NEW DELHI May 1. A. Natarajan took over as Adjutant-General at the Army Headquarters today. An alumnus of the King George School (now Military School) Bangalore, Lt. Gen. Natarajan was commissioned in the Regiment of Artillery in 1963 and participated in the 1965 Indo-Pakistan war.

He has been an Air Observation Post (Air Op) pilot initially on fixed wing aircraft and thereafter helicopters. During the 1971 Indo-Pakistan war, he operated as an Air Op pilot in the Longewala sector of Rajasthan.

He has also been Director of Operations branch at the Army Aviation Directorate, MA to VCOAS and instructor at the School of Artillery, Deolali and National Defence Academy, Khadakwasla.

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