Hear the story of Captain Naveen Nagappa 🔥

Captain Naveen Nagappa is a war veteran fought courageously in 1999 Kargil War .
He was commissioned on December 12, 1998, Capt Nagappa was allotted 13 JAKRIF unit and in January 1999, he moved to Sopore for counter-insurgency (CI) operations.
Capt Nagappa was tasked to capture point 4875 .
He sustained injuries in a grenade attack when enemy lobbed grenade on his bunker.
""Both my legs were badly damaged. I didn't know if I was dead or alive. I was hallucinating. And then I saw Vikram. He said ' tu fikar mat kar, mai aa gaya hoon'. Then he dragged me out of the bunker took me to a safe place from where i started crawling down. I looked back and saw him running up the mountains."
We won the war but at a cost. We had lost Captain Vikram Batra forever. I spent 21 months to undergo 8 surgeries but was still medically unfit to join the army back."- Capt Naveen.
After his training at Indian Military Academy, Dehradun, he joined 13 Battalion of J&K Rifles during 1999. With just 6 months of service behind him he lead a team of 120 soldiers to fight the enemy at point 4875. He had to fight the enemy in biting cold without food or water for more than 60 hrs. During the final assault he got severely injured by enemy grenade sustaining injuries to both his legs. After 21 months of hospitalization and 8 major surgeries he was declared medically unfit to serve. Currently he is engaged in motivating the youth towards nationalism and patriotism. He provides counselling to the youth to join the defense forces. He is also involved in welfare of Martyr families.
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