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NCC- The whole and soul of Indian defense aspirants

    

          NCC(National Cadet Corps) has been a platform for many young talents who aspire to join the Indian defense forces and pursue a career in it, making their lives an adventurous and respectful journey. The organization has always tried to re-mould and re-exercise the activities and boost up the moral values of the aspirants to create a wholesome multi-talented personality who, in future, would render his/her best to safeguard the motherland, on whom resides the trust of 120 billion people who sleep peacefully at night.

If you haven’t enrolled yourself as a cadet in NCC, then you have missed all the fun and excitement one experiences as a cadet. Starting from the day you expand your chest after looking yourself in the mirror a hundred times, adjusting your beret, hackle, belts,  and then as you are promoted to higher ranks, you start adjusting your kamar-bandh, jhallar, decorating the badges you own and the medals you’ve won, thinking of the people who would stare at your eye-catching dress. You’ve missed all the fun if you haven’t been in camps, shouting “Jai Hind Sir” to the seniors and the NCC staff members who burn their calories just to make you successful and keep the morale high. You’ve missed all the fun if you haven’t been in the queue discussing possible dishes you might be served which ultimately would quench your hunger. You’ve missed all the fun if you haven’t looked at various guns and discussed about them, waiting for that precious time when you will finally fire those bullets with them, concentrating the bull’s eye to score a complete 8 point per shot which is every shooter’s dream. You’ve missed all the fun if u haven’t polished the raw pieces of the ship models(in case of Naval wing cadets) and aero-models(in case of Air-Force wing cadets). You’ve missed all the fun if you haven’t been punished with your troop for your misbehavior, wherein you later meet together to discuss the mistakes and collapse on your beds to make your body ready for the next session of the training. You’ve missed all the fun if you haven’t been with your group to wash your clothes together, begging buckets from your friends. You’ve missed all the fun if you haven’t sat around the bonfire during that last night of your camp, cracking jokes with fellow-cadets and sirs. You’ve missed all the fun if you haven’t rowed a boat, pitched a tent, performed semaphore, learnt various knots, read the maps, studied service subject, marched together with your troop members, sailed on a Naval ship, flew on a helicopter, entered into the tanks, travelled in the canters, etc. etc. You’ve missed all the fun if you haven’t been a part of a contingent and represented your directorate at directorate level camps, watching VIPs and VVIPs, presenting the cultural programs before them and curiously waiting for the trophy to be yours. You’ve missed all the fun if u haven’t sat late night polishing your shoes, remembering the dialog of the teachers saying -“tumhara chehra usme dikhna chahiye”. You’ve missed all the fun if u haven’t worn the blazers of your contingent and felt proud of representing the directorate. You’ve missed all the fun if you haven’t travelled together for various camps, playing antakshari during the journey, laughing out loudly and starting the count-down against the opposition for not zeroing on a succeeding song in a quick swish. You’ve missed all the fun if you haven’t been a NCC CADET!

NCC provides a platform for the young talents to develop their abilities not just to serve the country, but produce a well-mannered social human being. All the cadets who have used the platform, have been successful gentlemen in their lives and have appreciated the organization. Providing the cadets an opportunity to qualify the SSB interview without writing the UPSC exam, reserving seats in medical and entrance examinations, NCC has been blooming well in the minds of millions who aspire for a career in uniforms. Its upto us what we make out of it. Is it just the ‘C’ certificate that we need, or the adventures, excitement, moral values, opportunities and the exposure that NCC provides?

If you wouldn’t have enrolled yourself as a cadet, you wouldn’t have known how precious you are! So grab the opportunities and prove yourself at the earliest because ‘today’s newspaper is tomorrow’s waste paper’.