Captain Shiva Chauhan of the Indian Army has become the first woman officer to be deployed for operational posting at Siachen , the world’s highest battlefield. She had to go through many days of hard work and tough training before being deployed on Monday in this battlefield of Siachen which is always covered with snow. Captain Shiva Chauhan is from the Fire and Fury Corps of the Indian Army. Her pictures have been released from the Twitter handle of this corps.
In fact, it is incorrect to call Siachen a ground or field because it is a glacier where even in the month of May-June the temperature remains -20 or less degrees. By the way, Captain Shiva has been posted at Kumar Chowki here. The height of this place is 15600 ft above sea level. Captain Shiva will remain here for three months. She has been given tasks related to combat engineering.
Capt. Shiva ‘s hard training includes development of physical strength and endurance, climbing ice walls and facing blizzards, rescue work and saving lives in the most difficult of circumstances. She was specially trained for this in Siachen Battle School. Although earlier also women officers were deployed in Siachen but that deployment was at the base camp which is at a height of 9000 feet and moreover that used to be a regular deployment with army unit.
Siachen is a glacier in the Karakoram range of the Himalayas and its height is about 20 thousand feet. Siachen is strategically very important for India. The experience of deployment here for any soldier is counted among his most difficult and challenging assignments. The biggest risk here is the weather on the one hand, while snow storms pose an even greater danger here. Where survival is a big achievement, fighting a war there can be a big achievement, only a soldier can imagine it.
