A soldiers valour
Noble warriors have a timeless and sacred code – ‘
I will always place the mission first. I will never accept defeat. I will never quit. I will never leave a fallen comrade’. It is this underlying spirit of professional soldiering that begets subsequent codes e.g.
Chetwodian or the reverberating throes of the Indian Army’s Regimental mottos e.g.
Sarvatra Vijay, Deg Teg Fateh, Sarvatra Izzat-o-Iqbal etc.
Such stirring faith within the institution naturally breeds ethical culture and values like honour, integrity, sacrifice, discipline, duty, commitment, service etc., that makes ordinary people do extraordinary valour, routinely.
A disproportionately large part of the men and women who wear the ‘Uniform’ and willingly pay ‘the ultimate price’ by going beyond the call of duty, come from the rural hinterlands and dustbowl districts, on the outliers of ‘21st Century India’.