How do you get to wear the prized maroon beret and the treasured Balidan badge? Veena Sandhu looks at the gruelling training para commandos undergo to become a part of the elite force equipped to ...

Dhoni’s Balidaan badge controversy ... meant exclusively for the Para Commandos. Dhoni underwent a two-week initial training with the elite Para regiment of the force in Agra in 2015.

All that hellish and brutal training gives the Parachute Commandos an edge over regular ... as a Maroon Beret but before they are handed the badge, they have to down a Patiala peg of rum, bite ...

New Delhi: Lieutenant Colonel Kabilan Sai Ashok, 42, who the Indian Army has hailed as the youngest Indian referee at the Paris Olympics, is a former combat-hardened para commando of an elite ...

The Garuds wear para badge on chest exactly like MARCOS and Para Commandos. Their cap bears an “Airman Beret Badge”. As every Garud official is parachute trained, hence they also wear the para wings ...

Only Paramilitary Commandos are allowed to wear the Balidaan Badge. Dhoni, who has been conferred an honorary rank of Lieutenant Colonel in the Parachute Regiment in 2011, had also undergone ...