Captain Abhilasha Barak Becomes First Woman Combat Aviator of Indian Army

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Category : Defense Published on: May 27 2022

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Captain Abhilasha Barak became the first woman to join the Army Aviation Corps as a helicopter pilot.
Barak hails from Haryana and is the daughter of a retired colonel.
She was commissioned in the Army Air Defence Corps in September 2018.
She was awarded ‘wings’ along with 36 army pilots by Army Aviation director general Lieutenant General Ajay Kumar Suri during a valedictory ceremony at the Nashik-based training school.
Barak became the army’s first woman combat aviator at a time when the National Defence Academy is set to induct its first batch of women cadets in June 2022.