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He was named as the 22nd Chief of Army Staff on November 27 , 2004 and took over the role when his predecessor General N C Vij retired on 31 January 2005 . He is the first Sikh to lead the Indian Army and the 11th Chief of Army Staff from the Western Command based at Chandimandir . His selection was not a surprise as at the time of his appointment he was the most senior officer in the army after General Vij. He is an alumnus of the National Defence Academy and was commissioned into the 9 Maratha Light Infantry on 02 August 1964 . He received the colour of the Battalion from President (Late) Dr. Zakir Hussain at the Investiture Parade in 1968.Hailing from a family of warriors, he is a third generation soldier. Born on 17 September 1945 in Bahawalpur (now in Pakistan ), his family migrated to India ( Patiala , Punjab ) after partition in 1947 . His grandfather served in the 1/67 Punjab Regiment during the First World War in Mesopotamia and Kut-al-Amara - both in present day Iraq - along with the 103rd, 105th, 110th, 114th and 117th Mahrattas. These five battalions subsequently joined the Maratha Light Infantry, the same regiment General Singh was commissioned into 50 years later. His father, Colonel Jaswant Singh Marwah, served in the Electrical & Mechanical Engineers from 1943 to 1973 and is also a veteran of the Second World War. He is an ace shooter and plays basketball, squash and golf. He is also a keen mountaineer who has trained under the late Tenzing Norgay at Himalayan Mountaineering Institute, Darjeeling. He is married to Mrs Anupama Singh and they have a son and a daughter. He is fluent in both Arabic and French , the widely spoken languages in Algeria . EXTERNAL LINKS
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