Excelsior Sports Correspondent
UDHAMPUR, Nov 6: The Indian Army’s team of 8 Garhwal Rifles deployed in Kargil won gold medal in the event conducted in the Cambrian mountain of Wales in the UK.
It is an annual international Military patrolling exercise.
A total of 119 teams participated in the competition.
The participants are tested for 30 aspects during the patrol including firing of personal weapons, obstacle crossing, administering first aid and casualty evacuation, recognition of aircraft, vehicles and equipment artillery target indication, patrol techniques, helicopter drills communications skills, handling prisoners of war, tactical river/stream crossing, ambush/anti ambush drills, reconnaissance techniques, tunnel crossing, navigation skills and rock climbing.
“The team comprises of eight members, each soldier carries 30 Kg load on the back during one of the toughest patrolling exercise. This is the second time an Indian Army team has won the event, earlier 4/9 Gorkha Rifles won the gold medal in 2010,” informed Col S D Goswami, Defence Spokesperson (MoD).
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