Shaliza Dhami

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Group Captain

Shaliza Dhami
Bornc. 1982
Ludhiana, Punjab, India
AllegianceFlag of India.svg  India
Service / branchAir Force Ensign of India.svg  Indian Air Force
Years of service2003–present
Rank Indian IAF OF-5.svg Group Captain
Service number 27773
Spouse(s)Vineet Joshi [1]

Group Captain Shaliza Dhami (born c. 1982) [2] is a senior officer in the Indian Air Force (IAF). She is the first woman officer in the IAF to receive a permanent commission, the first woman to become a Flight Commander and the first to command a front-line combat unit in the IAF. [3] [4] [2] [5] [6]

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Career

Born in Ludhiana, Punjab. [4] [7] Dhami holds a Bachelor of Technology degree in Electronics and Communication. [8] [3] Her first solo flight was in 2003 in a HAL HPT-32 Deepak. She was commissioned as a flying officer in the Air Force on 20 December 2003 on a short-service commission, [9] and was promoted to flight lieutenant on 20 December 2005 and to squadron leader on 20 December 2009. [10] [11]

Promoted to wing commander on 20 December 2016, [12] Dhami became a Flight Commander in August 2019, the first woman officer in India to do so. [4] She is a flight commander of a Chetak helicopter unit at Hindan Air Force Station. [13] She also became the first woman flying instructor of the IAF for Chetak and Cheetah helicopters; this made her the first woman flying instructor in the IAF.

On 18 December 2018, Dhami became the first woman officer in the Indian Air Force to be granted a permanent commission. [14] She was selected for promotion to group captain, effective from 28 December 2021 (seniority from 28 September 2021), [15] thus becoming the first female officer in the Indian Armed Forces to attain a selection-grade rank in a combat arm. In March 2023, she became the first woman selected to command a front-line IAF combat unit. [2]

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  2. 1 2 3 "'Sent her to a govt school, never questioned her choices': IAF officer Shaliza Dhami's proud parents". The Indian Express. 8 March 2023. Retrieved 8 March 2023.
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  15. ↑ "Part I-Section 4: Ministry of Defence (Air Branch)" (PDF). The Gazette of India. 9 November 2024. p. 4257.
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