Our airforce has always been a crucial part of the national defence, our air warriors have gone beyond the call of duty many times and we have seen it time and again, be it Kedarnath floods or recent Kerala floods, the bravery of our soldiers are unmatched. The following Indian Air Force personnel have been conferred with Distinguished Service and Gallantry awards by the President of India on the occasion of Republic Day 2019.
PARAM VISHISHT SEVA MEDAL
- Air Marshal Hemant Sharma AVSM VSM
- Air Marshal Sardar Harpal Singh AVSM VM
- Air Marshal Balakrishnan Suresh AVSM VM
- Air Marshal Raghunath Nambiar AVSM VM & Bar
- Air Marshal Pandurang Narayan Pradhan AVSM (Retd)
- Air Marshal Hemant Narayan Bhagwat AVSM VM (Retd)
ATI VISHISHT SEVA MEDAL
- Air Marshal Rajesh Kumar VM
- Air Marshal Amit Tiwari VM
- Air Marshal Amit Dev VSM
- Air Marshal Mannepalli Baladitya VSM
- Air Vice Marshal Anil Kumar Gupta VSM (Retd)
- Air Vice Marshal Soumitra Kumar Dey VSM (Retd)
- Air Vice Marshal Mahendra Vikram Singh
- Air Vice Marshal Pijush Mukherjee VSM
- Air Vice Marshal Amar Preet Singh
- Air Commodore Dhananjay Vasant Khot VM
- Air Commodore Manu Chaudhary VM
- Air Commodore George Thomas VM
VAYU SENA MEDAL (GALLANTRY)
- Wing Commander Bhuvanendran Nair Prasanth
- Sergeant Amit Kumar Jha
VAYU SENA MEDAL
- Air Commodore Anjan Bhadra
- Group Captain Virendra Singh Mahida
- Group Captain Sameer Pradhan
- Group Captain Madhav Rangachari
- Group Captain Shanmugam Ramesh (Retd)
- Group Captain Debanjan Mandal
- Group Captain Arun Mahadevan
- Group Captain Anubhav Tripathi
- Group Captain Udayan Kumar
- Group Captain Harpreet Singh Luthra
- Group Captain Prem Anand
- Wing Commander Jinnehally Puttuswamy Raju
- Wing Commander Nitin Kumar Mal
- Squadron Leader Himadri Biswas
VISHISHT SEVA MEDAL
- Air Vice Marshal Avinash Gopal Kshirsagar
- Air Vice Marshal Kalvakuntla Shekhar Reddy
- Air Vice Marshal Arun Bhaskar Gupta
VISHISHT SEVA MEDAL (CONT’D)
- Air Commodore Sanjeeva Sinha (Retd)
- Air Commodore Mahesh Bhaskar Aserkar
- Air Commodore Rajesh Vaidya
- Air Commodore Anupam Agarwal
- Air Commodore Lalit Kumar Chawla VM
- Group Captain Rajive Sharma
- Group Captain Manish Kumar Srivastava
- Group Captain Devendra Singh Shekhawat
- Group Captain Subrato Kumar Nath
- Group Captain Vardharajan Rajagopalan
- Group Captain Shankar Bevinmarad Arunkumar
- Group Captain Arun Mittu
- Group Captain Manish Sabharwal
- Group Captain Debajyoti Borah
- Group Captain Anish Aggarwal
- Group Captain Kamlesh Singh
- Group Captain Arvind Thakur
- Group Captain Raman Kewal Bhatla
- Group Captain Yeshpal Singh Negi VM
- Group Captain Barada Prasad Sabut
- Group Captain Bangalore Satyaji Vijay Rao
- Group Captain Gaurav Mani Tripathi
- Group Captain Rishabh Mittal
- Wing Commander S Akheto Jakhalu
- Master Warrant Officer Kuttapan Surandran
