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Student interaction drive by IAF flagged off in Chennai

| | Sep 02, 2014, at 03:22 am
New Delhi, Sept 1 (IBNS): Air Officer-in-Charge Personnel Air Marshal S Sukumar on Monday flagged off a student interaction drive at Chennai.


The drive is one amongst many activities undertaken by the IAF to connect to the youth and create an awareness about induction into the IAF Officers cadre.

It aims to motivate the youth to join the mission and be an elite part of the Indian Air Force family.

Young Indian Air Force Officers in IAF rally Gypsies along with support staff and vehicles were flagged off from Chennai covering 8 cities including Tiruchirappalli, Madurai, Thiruvananthapuram, Kochi, Kozhikode, Mangalore and Bangalore.

This drive would be flagged-in in Bangalore on Sep 27.

The  interaction drive aims to target 16 educational institutes in these cities where a multi disciplinary group of IAF Officers would interact with students providing them with details of career opportunities in the IAF and address their queries.

The IAF adventure team, also a part of the contingent will conduct Para-Sailing activities at the institute premises.

Students will also get an opportunity to visit IAF bases at certain places and also have an experience to fly in Powered Hang Glider.

This will provide a great opportunity to the students to experience glimpses of IAF’s adventurous life and also get to know avenues available to them as IAF Officers.

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