Vikas Sharma
Tribune News Service
Jammu, July 26

For Rifleman Kuldeep Singh (retd), who had served 13 Jammu and Kashmir Rifles unit of the Army during the Kargil war, serving the nation in a war is the proudest moment.

Hailing from the Pallanwala area of Akhnoor in Jammu district, the ex-Rifleman was invited by the National Cadet Corps unit of Government MAM College here today for celebrations of the 20th anniversary of Kargil Vijay Diwas. “I joined the Army in 1998 and got the opportunity to serve in the battlefield in one-year of my job. Our 13 JAKRIF was entrusted with the task of capturing the Tololing peak, a dominant position overlooking the strategic Srinagar-Leh highway. The three-week battle of Tololing was one of the turning points of the Kargil war,” he said.

“We suffered many casualties, including Major Ajay Jasrotia and Captain Vikram Batra, but were determined to oust the enemy from our territory,” he recalled.