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An Indian Navy officer holds a Commission — Permanent Commission (PC) or Short Service Commission (SSC) — in the executive, technical, education, medical, or legal branches of the Indian Navy, selected through the Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) via NDA/CDS/INET, or direct-entry schemes including 10+2 (B.Tech) Cadet Entry, NCC Special Entry, JAG Entry (law), and MNS (Military Nursing Service). The Navy operates surface warships (aircraft carriers INS Vikrant and INS Vikramaditya, destroyers, frigates, corvettes), submarines (Kalvari-class SSK, nuclear submarine INS Arihant), maritime patrol aircraft (P-8I Poseidon), and carrier-borne fighters (MiG-29K/Tejas Naval). Officers join at the Naval Academy Ezhimala (Kerala) — a four-year degree course that produces technically literate, sea-going officers commissioned as Sub-Lieutenants — or at INA Ezhimala via the shorter CDS/INET induction. Career spans peacetime task-group deployments in the Indian Ocean Region, anti-piracy operations (Gulf of Aden/EUNAVFOR coordination), UN peacekeeping naval taskforces, and wartime blue-water operations, alongside shore billets at Naval HQ New Delhi, fleet commands (Western Fleet Mumbai, Eastern Fleet Visakhapatnam, Southern Naval Command Kochi), and strategic missile submarine bases.
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