Page 3 - Failure to Triumph - Journey of A Student

My Target Service Selection Board (SSB)

Why Youth Today

Want To Get Into The

Indian Defence

Forces?

In the recent years joining the defence forces has
emerged as a very promising career amongst the
youth. In fact it has become the favorite choice of
many. The Gen-Next is going gaga over this
career option and are leaving no stone unturned
to become a part of the elite society of Fauj.
Earlier while it was not so famous amongst the
youth and was seen as a career option full of
discipline and strictness, now everybody is
drooling over and they are happy and excited to
get the ragda, discipline, fronts rolls, maharaja
and what not!

Let us see what has made Fauj a hit choice for
our Gen-Next:

1. The Adventure seekers: The youth today are adventure seekers, they are thrilled imagining
a life full of travelling, meeting new people and visiting parts of the world which people only
dream off. So now when the option of a certain life has taken a backseat, we are thrilled to
get a life where bags are always packed for a get set go to places which you may never
know! Fauj definitely offers an adventurous life full of uncertainties sometimes. The adventure
sports you get to play in Fauj are something which civilian can only dream about.
2. For us difficulty is the new cool: There was a dialogue of this sort in some hindi movie that
‘tragedy is the new cool’, but for our yo-yo Generation difficulty is the new cool. Fauj offers
difficulty in a unique way, right from the training you get habitual to difficulties and crisis
handling. Each step in the Fauji attire demands you to sort out different problems and
unleashing the horses of your brain in order to sort out difficulties.
3. Khatron ke Khiladi: Right from the camps in training, to sitting on the borders, flying the jet
planes, to operating a submarine, there is danger everywhere. But the new Generation thinks
that dealing with danger is fun all together and the mainstream career options are well too
mainstream! (No offence please).
4. The patriots that we are: Love for motherland is a strong force which has driven people
towards the forces and compelled them to join the forces. The patriot within us has risen and
we love India, our motherland more than anything. Hindustani naam humara hai, sabse pyara
desh humara hai.
5. The online Generation: We are the online generation. With the rise in social media and the
internet revolution, we find ourselves more connected to the forces. From the tri services, to
our PMO, everything is available on the internet now, which helps our new generation to
connect in a better way with them. There are dedicated pages and websites which fill our
youth with motivation to join Fauj.
6. The bullet lovers: The new gen-next is the bullet lover. For bikes may come and bikes may
go but Enfield will have a place of its own. Often we connect fauj with the bullet. Of course
you can buy it as a civilian also, but the ‘Indian Army’ written on the number plate says it all.
Right?