COMMANDERS’ CONFERENCE-2024 WESTERN AIR COMMAND

New Delhi:8/12/24: A two-day Commanders’ Conference of Western Air Command (WAC) of the Indian Air Force was held on 06 & 07 December 2024 at New Delhi, with Air Chief Marshal AP Singh, Chief of the Air Staff (CAS), as the chief guest. He was received by Air Marshal PM Sinha, Air Officer Commanding-in-Chief, WAC, and presented with a ceremonial Guard of Honour on his arrival.

During the conference, the CAS interacted with the Commanders of the WAC AoR, and discussed the need to pursue training for ensuring the capability to fight and win multi-domain warfare. He emphasized the theme for this year “Bharatiya Vayu Sena – Sashakt, Saksham, Atmanirbhar”. He sought all commanders’ collective capability, capacity, and commitment to take the IAF to even greater achievements. He emphasised the need to achieve focused progress in various areas, which include increasing operational capability through better training and planning; early operationalisation of newly inducted equipment; safety and security, and nurturing leaders by empowering individuals at all levels to turn into future-ready and cohesive forces.

The CAS in his address, complimented WAC for being the first responders to calls for HADR, both within India and abroad; maintaining high operational excellence to ensure an always ready’ formidable fighting force, and always keeping IAF core values of ‘Mission, Integrity and Excellence’ foremost.