AFVOA Newsletter of Year 2021

CV 2 No. 01 / 2021 Page 1 of 123 T ABLE OF C ONTENTS SECTION 1 – MESSAGES 4 M ESSAGE FROM THE P RESIDENT AFVOA C HENNAI 4 SECTION 2 - NEWS / UPDATES FROM THE ASSOCIATION 6 Y OUR M ANAGEMENT C OMMITTEE & E XECUTIVE C OMMITTEE 6 Y OUR E DITORIAL C OMMITTEE 6 D IARY OF E VENTS 6 O UR GOC, D AKSHIN B HARAT A REA 9 M EETING OF V ETERANS WITH L T G EN A A RUN YSM SM VSMGOC DB A REA 11 G REETINGS ON B IRTHDAYS &W EDDING A NNIVERSARY 12 B ANK D ETAILS FOR O NLINE R EMITTANCE 12 S TATUS OF M EMBERSHIP OF AFVOA 13 L IST OF N EW M EMBERS 13 SECTION 3 – VALUE ADD / SPECIAL TASKS 15 C OMPLETION OF S ECOND W AVE OF D IGITIZATION OF O LD AFVOA N EWSLETTERS 15 A CCOLADES FROM M EMBERS : D IGITIZATION OF O LD N EWSLETTERS 18 AFVOA’ S I NCOME T AX I MBROGLIO – T O P AY OR N OT TO P AY 20 F ILING OF M AIDEN IT R ETURN – A CCOLADES FROM M EMBERS 23 E C ONNECT , THE N ECESSITY OF THE T IMES 25 E C ONNECT , THY NAME IS D IVERSITY ! 28 A S AMPLE I NVITATION L ETTER 33 A S AMPLE A PPRECIATION L ETTER 34 A NNUAL S UBSCRIPTIONS : T HE S LATE HAS N EVER BEEN C LEANER 35 “V ETERAN O FFICERS B ECOME I CONS OF D IGITAL T RANSFORMATION ” – T HUS S POKE “T HE H INDU ” ON J AN 31, 2021 36 AFVOA Y OU T UBE C HANNEL : A S TATUS U PDATE 39 AFVOAW EBSITE : A S TATUS U PDATE 41 R EVISION OF B YE - LAWS OF AFVOA 44 SECTION 4 – LETTERS TO THE EDITOR 46 SECTION 5 – WAR DIARY 48 T RIBUTES TO M Y W ARTIME B RETHREN 48 Col A Krishnaswami VrC VSM & Bar Genre: Reflections S AVING F ISH O IL : B ATTLE OF A MRISTAR R ADAR 1965 54 Col Mandeep Singh