1999年5月,卡吉尔叛乱仍被视为例行公事。没有人完全了解情况的严重性。然而,很快就发现,渗透者占领了印度士兵在冬季撤离的高海拔哨所,因此在战术上占了上风,而印度军队则在与情报进行斗争。
在接下来的一个多月里,阿努伊·纳亚尔上尉和17号战机的士兵在布满巨石的德拉斯区执行各种侦察任务,敌军在那里建立了基地。他们在7月的一场可怕的战斗中不屈不挠地战斗了两个晚上,然后才占领了对维杰行动的成功和印度在卡吉尔的胜利至关重要的山峰。在重炮和迫击炮的火力中,他们摧毁了敌人的四个掩体,并在近距离战斗中压制了数十名渗透者。在对第四个掩体的袭击中,23岁的船长被敌人的火箭推进榴弹击中,当场死亡,但在此过程中拯救了15人的生命,他们最终完成了任务,并在山顶升起了印度国旗。
2000年,阿努伊·纳亚尔上尉因以身作则,超越职责范围,获得了印度第二高英勇勋章——马哈维尔脉轮勋章。
这是他的故事。
Tiger of Drass: Capt. Anuj Nayyar, 23, Kargil Hero
In May 1999, the Kargil insurgency was still being viewed as a routine affair. No one quite understood the magnitude of the situation. However, it soon emerged that infiltrators had captured high-altitude posts vacated by Indian soldiers during the winter months and thus had a tactical upper hand, while the Indian Army struggled with intelligence.
For the next month or so, Capt. Anuj Nayyar and the men of 17 Jat went on various reconnaissance missions in the boulder-strewn Drass sector where enemy troops had set up base. They fought relentlessly in a gruesome battle for two nights in July, before securing the peak that was critical to the success of Operation Vijay and India’s victory in Kargil. Amid heavy artillery and mortar fire, they destroyed four enemy bunkers and neutralized tens of infiltrators in close combat. During the attack on the fourth bunker, the twenty-three-year-old captain was hit by an enemy rocket-propelled grenade, dying instantly but saving the lives of fifteen men in the process, who eventually finished the mission and hoisted the Indian flag on the peak.
For motivating his command by personal example and going beyond the call of duty, Capt. Anuj Nayyar was awarded India’s second-highest gallantry award, the Maha Vir Chakra, in 2000.
This is his story.
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