[1] Satish Kumar Sareen's family originally hailed from Rawalpindi, in present-day Pakistan where he was born on 1 March 1939.

After the operations in Goa, Sareen took up his first non-operational appointment when he attended the Pilot Attack Instructor (PAI) course.

Now a Squadron Leader, Sareen joined Eastern Air Command as the chief operations officer with Agartala AFB in Tripura near the East Pakistan border.

He was responsible for planning and launching extensive fighter, helicopter, transport operations including several successful strikes on the Chittagong City.

After more than two years with the Squadron, Sareen received an opportunity to be posted to the Iraqi Air Force as an instructor.

After promotion to Group Captain in 1981, he took over an Air Defence Signals Unit in the Eastern Sector.

In 1989, he returned to India and was commander of Srinagar Air Force Station in the Jammu and Kashmir Valley.

Within the Air force, it saw wide-ranging changes in the strategic, operational, training, maintenance and flight safety doctrines & performance of the IAF.

Particular attention paid to the welfare of serving and retired Air Force personnel and their families.