Vice Adm. Cheema next Flag Officer Commanding-in-Chief

Article Posted on : - Mar 24, 2015

KOCHI (PTI): Flag Officer Commanding-in-Chief, Southern Naval Command, Vice Admiral SPS Cheema has been appointed as the next Flag Officer Commanding-in-Chief of the Western Naval Command on the retirement of the present incumbent Vice Admiral A K Chopra, a Navy release said here Monday.

The Admiral was commissioned into the Indian Navy on January 1, 1977.

He is a graduate of the National Defence Academy (NDA), Khadakwasala, The Defence Services Staff College (DSSC), Wellington and the College of Naval Warfare (CNW), Mumbai.

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