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LIMCA Book of Records features Army Transport Unit
Kolkata, Feb 5 (IBNS): Army's Eastern Command has recently added another feather in its cap as Kolkata based Army unit dealing with military vehicles and logistics was featured in the Limca Book of Records 2015 for the Longest Safe Driving Records.
Transport Company Army Service Corps, which operate a fleet of 127 military vehicles has not had any fatal accidents since 2001, logging 65,74,086 kms in performance of military duties.
This conscientious performance of duty by the army men assumes all the more significance in the present environment where the nation has lost more lives to traffic accident than to terrorist actions.
The Transport Company Army Service Corps, was raised in 1966 in Mizoram and had moved to Fort William, Kolkata in 2001.
The unit has seen action during the 1971 war in Bangladesh and has also taken part in Operation Orchid in Nagaland and Operation Parkaram in J&K. The Transport Company Army Service Corps is an ISO 9001 : 2008 certified unit.
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