Airborne to Chairborne

About the Book

"AIRBORNE TO CHAIRBORNE" ´Chairborne´ is not commonly used as one word but as separated ´chair borne´, but Encarta Dictionary gives the meaning of this used as one word as: "holding sedentary military job" Work at a desk in an office job in the armed forces rather than having combat or field duties. Since, I started my lawyer´s career within the air force going into the Department of the Judge Advocate, I think it is appropriately used.

About the Author

Born in India in 1933, Group Captain A. S. Ahluwalia, has been a navigator in the Indian Air Force for nearly 30 years and has fl own thousands of hours on various types of aircraft including Dakota, Canberra and IL-14, besides Liberator, AN-12, and Vampire Night Fighter. He undertook about eight raids in 1965 Indo-Pak War, including both Peshawar raids and received a gallantry award. He has been trained in the Royal Air Force in the U.K. and in the Soviet Air Force in U.S.S.R. He was a member of the United Nations Force in the Congo. He is an alumnus of the Defense Services Staff College, Wellington. For his law qualifications, which he gained while serving, he became the first active flying branch officer to join the Department of Judge Advocate General, Indian Air Force, and took premature retirement as a Group Captain (Colonel), when he was the Joint Judge Advocate General. Thereafter he successfully practiced law in the Supreme Court of India and the High Court of Delhi for 10 years before moving to America. He does not think of ever retiring—“there is no retirement as long as limbs and mind are functional.” Therefore, since 1993 he is active in a law firm—The Chugh Firm—as a consultant on Indian laws because the law firm has five offices in India! He is also the founder-President of the Society of Indian Veterans in America—an Indian veterans organization, of which the President of India, in the capacity of being the Supreme Commander of the Armed Forces, is the Chief Patron.