Besides its conventional armed forces, the nation has in the Territorial Army a second line of trained personnel who are able to take on specialist work in time of need. Territorial Army personnel can handle docks and ports, railways, inland waterways, engineering, and keep things functional till their civilian counterparts are able to resume duty. At the college and school levels, the National Cadet Corps’ enrolment provides a ready forum for the youth of the country to be exposed to what national security entails. This corps is now more selective and offers to its cadets a very wide spectrum of activities, including adventure and sports.
The General Public Exposure to the Army comes in the form of resplendent and colourful ceremonial occasions like the Republic Day and Army Day Parades, and the Beating Retreat display.
This visual impact leaves an understandable impression that our Army marches smartly, to disappear into the eastern horizon on that day and reappear over the western on the next occasion, having taken a breather en route. Not so. There is a wholly different, if circumscribed way of life which does not bear comparison with anything else. The Army is a corporate body in a narrow sense but within it are a great variety both in spirit and form. One has to serve to savour it.
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