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Vayu Sena Medal

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Description
Examples of recipients
References
External links

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| image =

| caption = Medal and its ribbon
| awarded_by = Indian Air Force
| country = India
| type = Medal
| eligibility = All ranks of the Air Force^[1]
| for = Awarded for such individual acts of exceptional devotion to duty or courage as have special significance for the Air Force.^[1]
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| post-nominals =
| established =
| first_award = 1960
| last_award =
| total =
| posthumous =
| recipients = More than 1000
| precedence_label = Order of Wear^[2]
| individual =
| higher = Yudh Seva Medal
| same = Nausena Medal
Sena Medal
| lower = Vishisht Seva Medal
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The Vayu Sena Medal is an Indian military decoration, usually awarded in peacetime for a job well done. However it has been granted during times of conflict for acts of gallantry in the face of enemy, though not in the same numbers as the Vir Chakra.

Posthumous awards may be made and a bar is authorized for subsequent awards of the Vayu Sena Medal.

The VM was established on 17 June 1960 by the President of India and awards have been made from 1961 onwards. Awards over the past decade or more have been classified into two categories. One is Vayu Sena Medal (Gallantry) and the other for Vayu Sena Medal (Devotion to Duty).

Description

Obverse: A four-armed silver star with the points shaped like lotus blooms. In the centre, the national emblem. Suspended by a straight bar suspender and normally named and dated on the edge.

Reverse: A Himalayan Eagle with wings spread, and the legend, above and below, in Hindi "Vayu Sena Medal" or "Air Force / Medal".

Ribbon: 30 mm, alternating 2 mm diagonal (lower left to upper right) stripes of grey and orange-saffron. The ribbon has an overall "woven" appearance.

Examples of recipients

To understand the award better, a sample recipient would be that of the second-award bar to Squadron Leader Harchand Singh Gill, Indian Air Force:

"In October 1953, a composite column of Assam Rifles and a Civil Administrative party was attacked by armed Tagins and some officers and men were killed. Sqn-Ldr. H. S. Gill was in command of the detachment of Dakotas for the airlanding of troops. The work of airlanding personnel and supplies on the two small available landing grounds was difficult. Notwithstanding the difficulties Sqn.-Ldr. Gill with his keen enthusiasm, boundless energy and courage personally carried out the major portion of the landings at Doporijo. By his tireless work, the airlift which had appeared impossible, became a reality. He showed courage and devotion to duty of the highest order."

Sqn-Ldr. H.S. Gill was born in Mullanpur, Punjab, India. He was born on 25 March 1925.

References

1. ^¹http://www.indianarmy.gov.in/Site/FormTemplete/frmTempSimple.aspx?MnId=PPKkks3A/x4AHJHdGzm6SQ==&ParentID=vj+dQiXTSVltGFIvErLySQ==
2. ^{{cite web|title=Precedence Of Medals|url=http://indianarmy.nic.in/Site/FormTemplete/frmTempSimple.aspx?MnId=zCQHR1MODtMw0EJ0MUc5CA==&ParentID=XRRy6fl/Yj1c0bK0sve+Pg==|work=indianarmy.nic.in/|publisher=Indian Army|accessdate=15 September 2014}}

External links

The Vayusena Medal
[https://web.archive.org/web/20060828151226/http://faculty.winthrop.edu/haynese/india/medals/VSM.html Decorations and Medals of the Republic of India]

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