Jungle & Snow Survival School Location : Kasauli J&SS is a training establishment imparting training to pilots, flight engineers and flight gunners of the IAF, and trainees from friendly foreign countries. The training is imparted in survival technique, in case they crash land, force land or eject over jungles and snowbound terrain, during peacetime or hostilities. It was initially established at Sonamarg in 1963 and later moved to Dalhousie in April 1994 and to Kasauli in February 2013. Till 1966 it was called the Snow Survival School.
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Commanding Officers | |||||
Dates | Rank & Name | Number | Remarks | Location | Photo |
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Unknown to 01 Dec 72 | Flight Lieutenant Deo Kumar Jain | 8469 GD(N) | OC | Sonmarg | |
Unknown to | Wing Commander Sunil Kumar Banerjee | 15338 ADM | CO | Dalhousie | |
10 Jul 63 to 27 Jan 66 | Squadron Leader Vijendra Kumar Singhal | 5535 MED | CO | Sonamarg | |
12 May 66 to 10 Jul 67 | Squadron Leader Amar Jeet Singh Grewal | 4470 EQPT | CO | Sonamarg | |
18 Sep 67 to 08 Aug 69 | Squadron Leader Dinesh Chandra Misra | 3678 A&SD | CO | Sonamarg | |
17 Nov 69 to 15 Jan 73 | Squadron Leader Hamir Singh Mangat | 5226 GD(N) | CO | Sonamarg | |
17 Mar 73 to 25 Mar 74 | Squadron Leader Baldev Raj Gulati | 5709 GD(N) | CO | Sonamarg | |
01 Jul 74 to 25 Oct 76 | Squadron Leader Charan Singh Banga | 7801 GD(N) | CO | Sonamarg | |
01 Dec 76 to 31 Jul 79 | Squadron Leader Hardev Singh Dhillon | 9811 GD(P) | CO | Sonamarg | |
07 Oct 79 to | Squadron Leader Vijaysinha Ganpatrao Shinde | 9791 GD(P) | CO | Sonamarg |