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Aman Jagtap

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Former Army Officer 🇮🇳
King’s College London 🇬🇧
On a Less Ordinary Climb.

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A new beginning. Thanking all my unit officers for sending their wonderful video wishes. Deeply humbled and moved. Time to fly higher. by @majorjagtap

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2 years ago

Let them doubt your capabilities, let them try to pull you down. Never stop believing in yourself and work so hard that your success shuts them all up.
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Here’s a compilation post of all TV interviews from my Military Career that began in Officers Training Academy, Chennai.
Hope these videos inspire someone out there to never settle for less.
From a boy with dreams to a man with conviction.
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Time to chase new goals.
A new chapter now begins and the best part?
I’ve just begun. by @majorjagtap

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Thank you the Indian Army for making a man out of a boy that I was.
End of an era. Goals achieved, Dreams fulfilled.
Time to hang my Uniform and Chase bigger dreams.
My Story has just begun. by @majorjagtap

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Your peace is sacred. taken in Peak District by @majorjagtap

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Here’s a new perspective.

One life. Serve the nation. Scale the impact.

I leave everything else to the viewer’s interpretation.

#MilitaryTransition #IndianArmy by @majorjagtap

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Keep posting your progress. Your life is your own movie, you never know who might get inspired. by @majorjagtap

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PUNJAB REGIMENT — Sthal Wa Jal

Raised in 1761, the Punjab Regiment is one of the oldest infantry regiments of the Indian Army, carrying a military lineage that stretches across more than two and a half centuries. Its history spans the era of the old Presidency armies, both World Wars and the major conflicts fought by independent India.

📍 Established: 1761
🏛️ Regimental Centre: Ramgarh, Jharkhand
⚔️ War Cries: Bole So Nihal, Sat Sri Akal / Bol Jawala Ma Ki Jai
🛡️ Motto: Sthal Wa Jal — By Land and Sea
🎖️ Battle Honours: Zojila, Ichhogil, Dograi, Burki, Kalidhar, Bedori, Nangi Tekri, Brachil Pass, Longewala and Garibpur
🏅 Recorded Gallantry Distinctions: 18 Maha Vir Chakras, 9 Kirti Chakras, 56 Vir Chakras, 29 Shaurya Chakras and numerous other decorations.

One of the regiment’s most distinctive symbols is its galley insignia, inherited from the overseas-service tradition of its predecessor formations. The emblem closely reflects the spirit of its motto — Sthal Wa Jal, “By Land and Sea.”

Punjab Regiment battalions have fought across some of the most demanding terrain in the subcontinent — from the high mountains of Jammu & Kashmir to the plains of Punjab and the deserts of Rajasthan. They earned distinction during the wars of 1947–48, 1965 and 1971, with names such as Zojila, Dograi, Burki, Longewala and Garibpur becoming part of the regiment’s enduring battle history.
A defining chapter came during the Battle of Longewala in 1971, when A Company of 23 Punjab, under Major Kuldip Singh Chandpuri, held its position against a much larger Pakistani force supported by armour. The action became one of the most recognised infantry engagements of the war and earned the battalion the Battle Honour “Longewala.”

The regiment has also contributed to United Nations peacekeeping missions and, through different reorganisations over the decades, has helped shape other formations within the Indian Army.

More than 260 years after its origins, the Punjab Regiment continues to represent a tradition built on discipline, adaptability, courage and service across generations.

From Zojila to Dograi. From Longewala to Garibpur.

Sthal Wa Jal — By Land and Sea. by @majorjagtap

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Observing life around is also rare these days. taken in London, United Kingdom by @majorjagtap

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10 days ago

Captain Aman Jagtap — 23 Punjab Regiment 🇮🇳

77-member marching contingent from the Punjab Regiment at the historic Bastille Day Parade in Paris, marching down the Champs-Élysées. by @majorjagtap

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Captain Aman Jagtap — 23 Punjab Regiment 🇮🇳

Back in 2023, during the Republic Day Parade rehearsals at Kartavya Path, I had the opportunity to capture Captain Aman Jagtap through my lens as he led the Punjab Regiment contingent.

The contingent went on to be adjudged the Best Marching Contingent of the Indian Army at the Republic Day Parade 2023.

A few months later, Captain Jagtap carried that same pride beyond India's borders. On 14 July 2023, he led the Indian Army's 77-member marching contingent from the Punjab Regiment at the historic Bastille Day Parade in Paris, marching down the Champs-Élysées.

There was a special history behind that march. Soldiers of the Punjab Regiment had fought on French soil during the First World War, and Captain Jagtap described the 2023 march as a tribute to the Indian soldiers who had made the supreme sacrifice there more than a century earlier.

From Kartavya Path in New Delhi to the Champs-Élysées in Paris — proud to have captured Captain Aman Jagtap during those Republic Day rehearsals before he went on to represent the Indian Army on an international stage. 🇮🇳📸

#ɪɴᴅɪᴀɴᴀʀᴍʏ #punjabregiment by @majorjagtap

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A 14 year old boy wanted to prove his worth, not to the world, but to himself.

Growing up, he looked up to the Commissioned Officers of the Indian Army. For him, earning that uniform was more than a career aspiration, it was the only path he knew towards becoming the man he wanted to be.

And the Army gave him far more than he had imagined.

It gave him purpose, responsibility and resilience. It pushed him beyond what he thought he was capable of. It gave him a title he was immensely proud to earn, and turned a boy with dreams and aspirations into a man with responsibility and resilience.

But somewhere along the way, the very career that had helped him discover his worth had also become deeply intertwined with how he defined himself.

So, at 28, he decided to evolve his challenge.

Having once proved to himself that he could earn the uniform, he now wanted to discover who he was without it.

Not because the uniform had given him any less but because it had given him enough courage to step beyond the identity he had known for so long.

For most of his adult life, his profession, his title and his identity had been almost inseparable. Walking away from something that had shaped him meant learning to measure himself differently.

And perhaps that was the next lesson.

The Army taught him what he was capable of in uniform.

Leaving gave him the opportunity to discover what he was capable of without it.

And the wisdom to understand that in the grand scheme of things the latter matters more than the former. taken in London, United Kingdom by @majorjagtap

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Proving my younger self wrong since 2008. by @majorjagtap

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