Joginder Jaswant Singh
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General Joginder Jaswant Singh PVSM, AVSM, VSM, ADC |
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| Born |
17 September 1945 Bahawalpur, Punjab, British India |
| Allegiance |
 India
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| Service/branch | Indian Army |
| Years of service | Jan 1961 - 30 Sept 2007 |
| Rank |
 General
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| Unit |
 9 Maratha Light Infantry
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| Commands held |
 Western Army Army Training Command (ARTRAC)I Corps 9th Infantry Division 79th (Independent) Mountain Brigade 5 Maratha LI 9 Maratha LI
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| Battles/wars |
Indo-Pakistani War of 1971 Kargil War |
| Awards |
 Param Vishisht Seva Medal Ati Vishisht Seva Medal Vishisht Seva Medal
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| Relations | Jaswant Singh Marwah(Father) |
General Joginder Jaswant Singh (born 17 September 1945) was the 22nd Chief of the Army Staff (COAS) of the Indian Army. He was appointed on November 27, 2004, and took over the role when his predecessor, General N C Vij, retired on 31 January 2005. He was succeeded by General Deepak Kapoor. He served as the COAS from January 31, 2005, to September 30, 2007.
He is the first Sikh to have led the Indian Army and the 11th chief of army staff from the Western Command based at Chandimandir. His selection was not a surprise, as at the time of his appointment he was the most senior officer in the army after General N C Vij. Following his retirement, he became Governor of the state of Arunachal Pradesh on 27 January 2008.
Joginder Jaswant Singh was born on 17 September 1945 at Samma Satta in the Punjab, the first child of Lieutenant Colonel Jaswant Singh Marwah (b. 21 January 1921) and his wife Jaspal Kaur (1923-d. February 2006). Sama Satta was then a town in the princely state of Bahawalpur State, now part of Pakistan. His family originated from the town of Daultala, now also in Pakistan, Rawalpindi District. He is a third-generation soldier; his paternal grandfather Sepoy (Private) Atma Singh Marwah (1896-1968) enlisted in the 1/67 Punjab Regiment of the British Indian Army as a drummer in 1914, and fought at the Siege of Kut in the Mesopotamian Campaign during the First World War. Wounded in his right elbow and arm early on, he was evacuated and sent to recuperate in the south of France, after which he was discharged from the army in 1918. Joginder's father, Jaswant, is a veteran of the Second World War who passed out from the Indian Military Academy in April 1943 and was commissioned into the Royal Indian Army Service Corps. In 1943, he was posted to the Reserve Supply Depot at Karachi, and married his wife Jaspal Kaur in December 1944. In February 1945, he was posted to Sama Satta and given command of a petroleum sub-depot; Joginder was born that September. After independence and Partition in August 1947, the family migrated to Patiala in India. In 1948, Jaswant transferred to the Indian Army Corps of Electrical and Mechanical Engineers as a Captain.
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