SHOOT- DIVE - FLY
Day -03: Chaper -03
Hi, folks, I am back on my lap top, it is a pleasant
evening, with a cup of tea in my hand, I started into to world and life
of a FAUJI- His adventure
The Hero of this chapter is a Thambi by name Cpat Rajesh Unni Krishnanan, A mallu, attached to the para regiment.
Let us do some Time Travel, back to
25th March 2007 +1
Place a village near Agra,
Capt Unni and his three dare devils are faced with a situation, saving
small girl of 2 years who unfortunately fell into a dry Tube WELL
Time now is 2100 hours. When of us would be having dinner and watching
some TV show, the poor devils are at work "MISSION BACHAO"
They measure a depth, how can we do it we do not have a scale. Well, an
officer has to make use of all available resources, he askes the
villagers to get him a rope, the rope goes inside the tube well. touches
the child's head and back. The measure of the rope tells them it is 27
feet down the earths surface
The team with a doctor, do a quick group planning exercise.
1.AIM
Rescue the child-- Top Priority
2.PROBLEMS
a) Child fallen in well- 27 feet below the Ground Level
b) Dark and uneven ground
c) Time is running out
3. RESOURCES
a) JCB Machine, (Kind curtsy Civil Engineers)
b) Local People and Machine Operator,
c) Adhoc Lighting arrangements
d) some hand digging tools and Ropes, ladders and other excavating tools
4. PLAN OF ACTION
a) Dig a pit 7 feet away from where the Tube well is with the child stuck in
b) Connect the Two shafts and pull the child out
Easily said then done
c) Planning and arrival of required machines took away precious time. Time now is 11:30 p.m.
Problem faced at 4 a.m. Machines could not go deeper than 15 feet. 12 more feet has to be dug by human beings.
Captain shab, telephones for help from unit and starts with the help of village volunteers.
Dig, dig, showl, showl, the work goes on and on till 11.A.M. the next day.
Some more digging now it was 30 feet down and dark -devils now start inching forward they thought they had reached. only to realise the they were way by 14 feet
Added to this misery, the earth caved on top of Capt unni,
We all know the GOD HELPS THOSE WHO HELP Others
His other three para devils, some how managed to dig him out.
By then the commanding officer had arrived at the spot, and seeing the situation is getting worse asks the team to pull back and abort the mission
For loosing Four men were not accetable to him. But here comes the tough decision, the four devils who were now 30 feet down below, said, nothing doing. Karenge ya marnege.
I stop reading for a moment, and aks my self will I be obeying the Commanding officer, or go ahead and try my best to save the child????
I recollect reading some were, in 1942, Mahatma Gandhi, said,"DO OR DIE" we will fight for our freedom. They are true soliders, once a mission has been decided then they go all out 100 percent.
and finally by the Grace of the Almighty captain unni it was not untill, their Electronic Stathoscope started beeing andry indicating that the child was alive as they could hear the heartbeat of the child
Unni and his team tired and hungry, finally touched the feet of the child, slowly they, pulled her out
The time now is 9:40 P.M, thanks to UNNI and his three devils they managed to end the mission by bringing out the child who had fallen into the tube well 36 hour ago
JAI HO
I do not want to write about yet another failed effort to save another child. Well men proposes and God disposes
He invites the readers to join the Engineering Regiment.just after +2
Well it is your wish
For me it is not my cup of tea. I want to wear on the wings, if not in this birth atleast in the next one.
The Time will tell, wether I have it in me or other wise
Bye till I read the next Chapter
