Deo is new AOC-in-C WC

Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Aug 31:  Air Marshal SB Deo, presently Air Officer Commanding-in-Chief (AOC-IN-C), Eastern Air Command, IAF, will take over as AOC-in-C Western Air Command tomorrow. The Air Force elements in the State of Jammu and Kashmir also fall under the Western Air Command.
Official sources said Air Marshal Deo was commissioned in the fighter stream on June 15, 1979. He has done 3855 hours of operational and training flying. He is a fighter combat leader and an A2 Qualified Flying Instructor. He has been a Directing Staff at TACDE and an Instructor at the Flying Instructors School, Air Force station Tambaram. He is also an alumnus of the Defence Services Staff College, Wellington.