Dinesh K Tripathi assumes charge as Chief of Personnel of Indian Navy

Vice Admiral Dinesh K Tripathi recently assumed charge as Chief of Personnel of the Indian Navy. The flag officer is a specialist in communication and electronic warfare and has served on frontline warships of the Navy.

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Previously he served as the Director General of Naval Operations (DGNO) at Naval HQ. His earlier appointments include Commandant of Indian Naval Academy and Flag Officer Commanding Eastern Fleet (FOCEF).

Tripathi was commissioned into the Indian Navy in the Executive branch on 1 July 1985. He is a specialist in Communication and Electronic warfare.

In the early years of his career, he served as a Signals Communication officer and Electronic Warfare Officer of the Guided missile destroyer, INS Mumbai (D62).

He has completed the staff course at the Defence Services Staff College (DSSC) in Wellington Cantonment where he won the Thimayya Medal, the higher command course at the Naval War College, Goa.

He has also attended the Naval War College, Newport, Rhode Island in the United States when he was awarded the Robert E Bateman International Prize.