Devendra Kumar Joshi
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Admiral Devendra Kumar Joshi (Retd.) देवेन्द्र कुमार जोशी PVSM, AVSM, YSM, NM, VSM, ADC |
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D. K. Joshi official portrait
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July 4, 1954 Almora, Uttar Pradesh, India (now Uttarakhand, India) |
| Allegiance |
 India
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| Service/branch |
 Indian Navy
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| Years of service | 1974–2014 |
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  Admiral
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| Commands held |
Chief of Naval Staff Western Naval Command Andaman and Nicobar Command INS Viraat INS Ranvir INS Kuthar |
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Admiral (Retd.) Devendra Kumar Joshi, PVSM, AVSM, YSM, NM, VSM, ADC, (born 4 July 1954) was the 21st Chief of Naval Staff of the Indian Navy, having assumed office on 31 August 2012. He is a specialist in anti-submarine warfare. He resigned on 26 February 2014, taking responsibility for a series of accidents, thus becoming the first Indian Navy Chief to resign.
Joshi was born in Almora, then in Uttarakhand. In an interview with Doordarshan, when asked why he had chosen to join the Navy, he replied, "I think it was the lure of the seas, the pull of the unknown...we belonged to the hills. Of the land, the hilly terrains, one had seen enough!" As he also said in the same interview, "...from both my father's side and my mother's side, for seven generations nobody had been in the services. Therefore, they [my parents] had not even thought of the armed forces as a career option. However, once I had made up my mind, they were fully supportive." He graduated from the naval academy, the Naval War College, USA, the College of Naval Warfare, Mumbai, and the National Defence College, New Delhi.
He is married to Chitra Joshi and the couple has two daughters.
Joshi has served in a variety of command, staff and instructional appointments. His commands at sea include guided missile corvette INS Kuthar, guided missile destroyer INS Ranvir and the aircraft carrier INS Viraat, during which he was awarded Nausena Medal, Vishist Seva Medal and Yudh Seva Medal respectively. He subsequently commanded the Eastern Fleet, wherein he was awarded Ati Vishisht Seva Medal (AVSM). After his elevation to Flag rank, Joshi served in the Integrated Headquarters in all nodal branches. He served in the Personnel Branch as the Assistant Chief of Personnel (Human Resource Development), in Warship Production and Acquisition as the Assistant Controller of the Aircraft Carrier Programme (ACACP), and thereafter in the Operations Branch both as Assistant Chief of Naval Staff (Information Warfare and Operations) and as the Deputy Chief of Naval Staff.
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