Devendra Kumar Joshi

Admiral Devendra Kumar Joshi, PVSM, AVSM, YSM, NM, VSM, ADC, was the 21st Chief of Naval Staff of the Indian Navy, having assumed office onAugust 2012. He is a specialist in antisubmarine warfare. He resigned onFebruary 2014, taking responsibility for a series of accidents, thus becoming the first Indian Navy Chief to resign.

Joshi was born in Almora, then in Uttar Pradesh and now in Uttarakhand. In an interview with Doordarshan, when asked why he had chosen to join the Navy, he replied, I think it was the lure of the seas, the pull of the unknown...we belonged to the hills. Of the land, the hilly terrains, one had seen enough! As he also said in the same interview, ...from both my fathers side and my mothers side, for seven generations nobody had been in the services. Therefore, they had not even thought of the armed forces as a career option. However, once I had made up my mind, they were fully supportive. He graduated from the naval academy, the Naval War College, USA, the College of Naval Warfare, Mumbai, and the National Defence College, New Delhi.

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