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| name = Satish Kumar Sareen
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[[Air Chief Marshal (India)|Air Chief Marshal]] '''Satish Kumar Sareen''', [[Param Vishisht Seva Medal|PVSM]], [[Ati Vishisht Seva Medal|AVSM]], [[Vayusena Medal|VM]], [[Aide-de-camp|ADC]] (born 1 March 1939) was the [[Chief of Air Staff (India)|Chief of Air Staff]] of [[Indian Air Force]] from 31 December 1995 till 31 December 1998.<ref>[http://indianairforce.nic.in/show_exchief.php?pg_id=19&ch=8 Ex-Chief of Indian Air Force] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160629145352/http://indianairforce.nic.in/show_exchief.php?pg_id=19&ch=8 |date=2016-06-29 }}</ref>

== Early life ==
Satish Kumar Sareen's family originally hailed from [[Rawalpindi]], in present-day [[Pakistan]] where he was born on 1 March 1939. His family moved to [[Delhi]] during the [[Partition of India]].

== Training ==
Sareen joined the [[Indian Air Force|IAF]] in 1954, where he was part of the [[National Defence Academy (India)|Joint Services Wing]] (JSW) in [[Dehradun]]. The JSW was a predecessor of today's [[National Defence Academy (India)|National Defence Academy]]. Sareen graduated from the first batch of the JSW and went onto the AFFC for flying training. He was [[Commissioned officer|commissioned]] on 29 May 1957. Sareen stood first among the fighter stream pilots and was awarded the Himmatsinghji trophy.

== Career ==

In 1957, Sareen was posted to No.20 Squadron flying Vampire Fighters. He moved on to No.4 Squadron flying the Organs. It was with No.4 Squadron that he took part in the Goa Operations in 1961 when he flew several sorties against Portuguese targets. After the operations in [[Goa]], Sareen took up his first non-operational appointment when he attended the Pilot Attack Instructor (PAI) course. He distinguished himself in the course and was retained as an instructor in the PAI Program, where he helped impart training to others following in the same stream.

When the [[Indo-Pakistani War of 1965|Indo-Pakistani War broke out in 1965]], Sareen was with No.29 Scorpios Squadron flying the Ouragans at [[Guwahati|Gauhati]]. He undertook some sorties against targets in [[East Pakistan]], but the fighting was minimal in the Eastern Sector. After the war, Sareen moved to No.27 Flaming Arrows Squadron flying the [[Hawker Hunter]]. After a brief stint, he was part of a detachment of pilots earmarked for conversion to [[Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-21|MiG-21s]]. Sareen moved back to No.29 Squadron after it converted back to the [[Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-21|MiG-21]].

In January 1970, Sareen attended the [[Defence Services Staff College]] (DSSC) at Wellington. He passed out of DSSC in November 1970. Now a [[Squadron Leader]], Sareen joined [[Eastern Air Command (India)|Eastern Air Command]] as the [[Chief operating officer|Chief Operations Officer]] with [[Agartala]] AFB in [[Tripura]] near the East Pakistan border.

[[Agartala]] was base to some Gnat fighters during the [[Indo-Pakistani War of 1971|1971 Ind-Pak War]]. He was responsible for planning and launching extensive [[Fighter aircraft|fighter]], [[helicopter]], transport operations including several successful strikes on the [[Chittagong|Chittagong City]]. For his role, Sareen received the [[Vayu Sena Medal]].

After the war, Sareen took over as Ops 1 Officer with [[Eastern Air Command (India)|Eastern Air Command]] HQ. In 1973, he was posted to No.1 Squadron flying [[Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-21|MiG-21s]] in [[Adampur]] as Senior Flight Commander. After more than two years with the Squadron, Sareen received an opportunity to be posted to the [[Iraqi Air Force]] as an instructor. This was part of longstanding bilateral arrangements between the two air forces in the 1970s. Sareen took up the offer and was posted to [[Kut|Al-Kut]] military airbase in [[Iraq]]. During his tenure in Iraq till 1977, Sareen undertook more than a 1000 instructional sorties.

In 1977, Sareen was the [[Chief operating officer|Chief Operations Officer]] of No.15 Wing at [[Bareilly]]. He got his first command soon after at the same airbase, No.24 Squadron flying the [[Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-21|MiG-21]]<nowiki/>bis. After promotion to [[Group captain (India)|Group Captain]] in 1981, he took over an Air Defence Signals Unit in the Eastern Sector. Numerous Staff Appointments followed, he was Air Defence Commander, WAC, and SWAC. Air Attaché to the [[High Commission of India in London]]. In 1989, he returned to [[India]] and was commander of [[Sheikh ul-Alam International Airport|Srinagar Air Force Station]] in the [[Jammu]] and [[Kashmir Valley]]. He was awarded the [[Ati Vishisht Seva Medal]] (AVSM) for distinguished service in 1990. Soon afterwards he took over as ACAS (Ops) at Air HQ in the rank of [[Air Vice-Marshal]].

After a short stint as SASO [[Central Air Command]], Sareen took over [[South Western Air Command]] as AOC-in-C. After about a year, he moved onto as the AOC-in-C [[Western Air Command (India)|Western Air Command]] - India's Premier Air Command. It was in this capacity he received the [[Param Vishisht Seva Medal|PVSM]] in 1995. Sareen was posted back to Air HQ as the [[Vice Chief of Air Staff (India)|Vice Chief of Air Staff]] responsible for all [[Indian Air Force|IAF]] defensive & offensive operations and intelligence activities.

Finally, in December 1995, he was promoted to Air Chief Marshal to take over as the [[Chief of the Air Staff (India)|Chief of the Air Staff]], [[Indian Air Force]]. His tenure saw the [[Nuclear weapons testing|nuclear tests]] in [[Pokhran]]. Within the Air force, it saw wide-ranging changes in the strategic, operational, training, maintenance and flight safety doctrines & performance of the [[Indian Air Force|IAF]]. Particular attention paid to the welfare of serving and retired [[Air Force Personnel Operations Agency|Air Force personnel]] and their families. Air Chief Marshal Sareen retired on 31 December 1998, handing over the charge to Air Chief Marshal [[Anil Yashwant Tipnis]].

== References ==
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