Do you have 5 minutes ?
Then let me narrate to you the story of one of our valiant Kargil Heroes !
Itโs been 25 years since our Kargil Victory and amongst the many unsung heroes ,
๐๐ฎ๐ฝ๐๐ฎ๐ถ๐ป ๐ก๐ฒ๐ถ๐ธ๐ฒ๐๐ต๐ฎ๐ธ๐๐ผ ๐๐ฒ๐ป๐ด๐๐ฟ๐๐๐ฒ stands tall !
Fondly addressed as Nimbu Sahab , he was commissioned into the Indian Army on December 12, 1998.
In 1999, when the Kargil war started, Capt. Kenguruse was a junior commander in the Rajputana Rifles battalion. For his determination and prowess, he was made the lead commander of the Ghatak Platoon of his battalion.
Only the most physically fit and motivated soldiers make it into the dreaded Ghatak platoon .
On the fateful night of June 28, 1999, Capt. Kenguruseโs platoon was given the responsibility of taking out a strategic machine gun post held by the enemy on a cliff face, the Black Rock. Heavy gun fire from this position had been hindering the battalionโs progress in the sector for days.
As the commando platoon scaled the cliff, they came under intense mortar and automatic fire from above. As a result, the team faced heavy casualties with Capt. Kenguruse being shot in the abdomen. Undeterred by the injury, he urged his men to carry on with the assault. On reaching the final cliff face, the platoon was halted by a sheer vertical rock wall that separated them from the enemy post.
To ensure that his platoon was able to climb this sheer cliff, he secured a rope for his men but his boots kept slipping on the icy slopes that hung at an obtuse angle. It would have been easy for him to retreat and get medical help but ,
the profusely bleeding Capt. Kenguruse decided to do something incredibly brave.
At a height of 16,000 feet and in the bitingly cold temperature of -10 degrees Celsius, Capt. Kenguruse kicked off his boots. Using his bare feet to get a grip, he somehow climbed up freezing cliff while carrying a RPG rocket launcher with him.
Once on top, Capt. Kenguruse fired the rocket launcher at the seven Pakistani bunkers that stood before him. They replied with a hail of gunfire but he kept firing till he had decimated the bunkers. Two enemy soldiers from a nearby bunker rushed towards him, and he tackled them with his commando knife in hand-to-hand combat.
He single-handedly downed two more infiltrators with his rifle before a volley of bullets blew him off the cliff.
But his daring act had done enough to ensure that his troops would go on to capture the position.
Once the mission of doing so had been accomplished, his jawans looked down at the dark depths where their beloved commander lay dead, crying themselves hoarse,
โYeh aapki jeet hai, Nimbu Sahab. Yeh aap ki jeet hai.โ
Capt. Neikezhakuo Kenguruse was just 25 when he made the Supreme Sacrifice .
For his unmatched courage and supreme sacrifice, he was posthumously awarded the Maha Vir Chakra .
Jai Hind ๐ฎ๐ณ
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