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    Army Officer: Forward March

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    An Army officer leads teams of soldiers ranging from a platoon to a corps depending on their rank. It is a responsible and challenging job to lead soldiers during times of war or crisis. A typical day involves physical training, supervising soldier training, security inspections, and meetings. Officers earn a good salary, starting at around Rs. 25,000 per month for a new lieutenant up to over Rs. 1 lakh per month for a lieutenant general. In addition to salary, the job offers pension, housing, food, medical benefits, and insurance. Candidates must demonstrate qualities like intelligence, leadership, decision making, and courage through exams and interviews to become an officer.

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    An Army officer leads teams of soldiers ranging from a platoon to a corps depending on their rank. It is a responsible and challenging job to lead soldiers during times of war or crisis. A typical day involves physical training, supervising soldier training, security inspections, and meetings. Officers earn a good salary, starting at around Rs. 25,000 per month for a new lieutenant up to over Rs. 1 lakh per month for a lieutenant general. In addition to salary, the job offers pension, housing, food, medical benefits, and insurance. Candidates must demonstrate qualities like intelligence, leadership, decision making, and courage through exams and interviews to become an officer.

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    An Army officer leads teams of soldiers ranging from a platoon to a corps depending on their rank. It is a responsible and challenging job to lead soldiers during times of war or crisis. A typical day involves physical training, supervising soldier training, security inspections, and meetings. Officers earn a good salary, starting at around Rs. 25,000 per month for a new lieutenant up to over Rs. 1 lakh per month for a lieutenant general. In addition to salary, the job offers pension, housing, food, medical benefits, and insurance. Candidates must demonstrate qualities like intelligence, leadership, decision making, and courage through exams and interviews to become an officer.

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    Army Officer: Forward March

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    An Army officer leads teams of soldiers ranging from a platoon to a corps depending on their rank. It is a responsible and challenging job to lead soldiers during times of war or crisis. A typical day involves physical training, supervising soldier training, security inspections, and meetings. Officers earn a good salary, starting at around Rs. 25,000 per month for a new lieutenant up to over Rs. 1 lakh per month for a lieutenant general. In addition to salary, the job offers pension, housing, food, medical benefits, and insurance. Candidates must demonstrate qualities like intelligence, leadership, decision making, and courage through exams and interviews to become an officer.

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    Army Officer Forward March

    The lowdown
    An Army officer leads a platoon,
    company, division, brigade, corps,
    command or battalion in the Indian
    Army, depending on his/her rank. It
    is an extremely responsible and
    challenging job to lead a dedicated
    team of young men and women in
    critical times of war or natural
    calamities and also in high-risk
    border areas. The job requires an
    officer to be strong mentally and
    physically while doing his or her
    job and handle a crisis calmly
    Clock Work
    6am: PT (physical training) with the men
    8am: Breakfast in mess
    9am: Train and supervise the training of soldiers
    12pm: Inspect security in and around the unit, check out if plans for the Army exercise
    are in order and if something else is needed
    1pm: Lunch
    2pm: Rest or read a book
    4pm: Play a round of squash at the club
    6pm: Head for a dinner party at the commanding officers place
    The payoff
    After the Sixth Pay Commission, a newly commissioned lieutenant gets around R25,000
    a month. A lieutenant colonel/colonel gets around R70,000 a month and lieutenant
    general makes more than R1 lakh a month. More than the money, this job is attractive
    for its perks pension after retirement, subsidised accommodation, free rations, free
    medical treatment, insurance through the Army Group Insurance Fund etc
    Skills/TRAITS
    You need to possess officer-like qualities (popularly known as OLQs) in order to become
    an officer. These qualities are: effective intelligence, reasoning ability, organising ability,
    power of expression, social adaptability, cooperation, sense of responsibility, initiative,
    speed of decision, group influencing ability, self-confidence, liveliness, determination,
    courage and stamina. Learn some tips and tricks to ace the SSB interview
    at http://indianarmy.nic.in/arms/aec/join.html

    Getting there
    You can either write the National Defence Academy exam (if you have passed Class 12)
    for entry to NDA, Pune, or the Combined Defence Services exam (if you are a graduate)
    for entry to OTA (Officers Training Academy), Chennai, or IMA (Indian Military
    Academy), Dehradun. OTA is for officers who want to join the short-service commission,
    while candidates wanting permanent commission should apply for NDA or IMA.
    There is a technical entry also, where budding and current engineers can apply.
    Technical entry is open for engineering graduates/engineering students (final year or
    pre-final year)/Class 12 passed students (with physics-chemistry-maths). For all these
    entries, check out newspaper advertisements in March/April and October/November.
    After the written exam, you have to appear for the Service Selection Board (SSB)
    interview, which lasts for five days and tests your leadership qualities
    Institutes
    Depending on the entrance test you have cracked, you are sent to one of these
    academies:
    . National Defence Academy
    www.nda.nic.in
    . Indian Military Academy
    www.joinindianarmy.nic.in/ima.htm
    . Officers Training Academy
    www.joinindianarmy.nic.in/ota.htm
    Pros and Cons

    Highly respected profession where you learn to live with a high degree of
    discipline and ethics

    Very secure job like any other government service

    Family life may suffer as you have to move often, and at some stations, your
    family cannot accompany you

    Is a very challenging profession

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