Another change in IAF is the AOC-in-C of the South Western Air Command Air Marshal Nagesh Kapoor, presently serving as the AOC-in-C at IAF’s Training Command. Air Marshal Tejinder Singh, presently the Deputy Chief of Air Staff will be the AOC-in-C Training Command of IAF.
Among the three services India Navy will see the all top Commanders being replaced by new officers in future. Beginning with the superannuation of Vice Admiral SJ Singh, Flag Officer Commanding in Chief (FOC-in-C), Western Naval Command (WNC) on July 31. Sources said that the current Vice Chief of Naval Staff (VCNS) Vice Admiral Krishna Swaminathan is likely to go as the next WNC FOC-in-C.
The Indian Army and the IAF are arranged into seven commands each and the Navy has three Commands.
In the month of October this year both the Naval Commanders, Vice Admiral Rajesh Pendharkar, FOC-in-C East and Vice Adm V Srinivas, FOC-in-C South will be superannuating.
Meanwhile the Strategic Forces Command (SFC) will also see the change of guard with Vice Admiral Suraj Berry superannuating in September.
In case of the Andaman and Nicobar Command, SFC and the CISC, it is a rotation based tri-services command to be headed by one command by each service. As the new CISC is an IAF Officer and Army heading the ANC, a Navy officer will continue to be the Commander in Chief of the Strategic Forces Command (SFC).
In the Navy, the few officers next in line, as per the seniority, includes Vice Admiral Sanjay Vatsayan (Deputy Chief Integrated Defence Staff), Vice Admiral Sameer Saxena (COS- ENC) and Vice Admiral Ajay Kochhar (COS, WNC).
