Service No & Branch | 3705 LGS (Orig: EQPT) | |||||||||||||||||
Date of Birth: 26 Apr 1927 | Commissioned: 04 Nov 1949 | Course: 3 GDOC Course | ||||||||||||||||
Service End: | Retired on 30 Apr 1985 Superannuated Died on 13 Nov 2019 (92 Years age) | Nick Name : | ||||||||||||||||
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Dates | Rank | Unit | Location | Appointment | Photo |
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- 12 Oct 1958 | Flt Lt | Air Head Quarters | Delhi | ||
22 Aug 1959 - 20 Sep 1959 | Flt Lt | Air Head Quarters | Delhi | ||
21 Sep 1959 - 06 Dec 1959 | Sqn Ldr | No 1 Operational Group (EAC) | Calcutta | ||
07 Dec 1959 - 31 Dec 1962 | Sqn Ldr | Eastern Air Command | Calcutta | ||
01 Jan 1963 - 31 Dec 1964 | Sqn Ldr | 9 Wing | Halwara | ||
01 Jan 1965 - 31 Dec 1966 | Sqn Ldr | Delhi | |||
01 Jan 1967 - 31 Dec 1967 | Sqn Ldr | Bangalore | |||
01 Jan 1967 - 01 Jan 1970 | Wg Cdr | High Commission of India, United Kingdom | London | Deputy AA | |
01 Jan 1971 - 31 Dec 1972 | Wg Cdr | Air Head Quarters | Delhi | ||
01 Jan 1973 - 31 Dec 1974 | Wg Cdr | Institute of Defence Management | Secunderabad | Instructor | |
01 Jan 1975 - 31 Dec 1977 | Gp Capt | DIWS | Mussorie | Director | |
02 Jan 1978 - 31 Oct 1979 | Air Cmde | Maintenance Command | Nagpur | Air Officer in-charge Logistics Management | |
01 Nov 1979 - 22 Dec 1982 | AVM | Air Head Quarters | Delhi | Assistant Chief of Air Staff, Logistics | |
23 Dec 1982 - 30 Apr 1985 | Air Marshal | Maintenance Command | Nagpur | Senior Maintenance Staff Officer | |
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Param Vishist Seva Medal | ||||
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AVM | Lareto Pestana Pereira | 3705 AEM | Award Date 26 Jan 1982 | Announced 26 Jan 1982 |
Details : | Air Vice Marshal Loreto Pestana Pereira (3705) was commissioned in the Logistics Branch of the Air Force in 1945. The Officer graduated from the Defence Services Staff College in 1959. As a member of the Maintenance Planning Teams and as Deputy Air Adviser at High Commission for India in London he effectively provided the required spares support to the existing and newly inducted aircraft. One of the pioneers in management training in the Air Force, he helped build up the Institute of Defence Management in its early formative years and then functioned, with distinction, as Director of the Defence Institute of Work Study. Air Vice Marshal Pereira has been responsible for successful logistics planning connected with induction of new weapon systems. His able and inspiring guidance has helped sustain a high serviceability rate of trainer aircraft despite the ageing of the HT-2 aircraft. In field of Logistics Management, he not only introduced major improvements in the 'on-going' schemes but has effectively put to use exceptional conceptual and innovative skills in evolving new and better supply organisation and procedures. The most notable of these changes are revision of maximum potential establishment for strategic items; direct supply and return of rotables between the repair agencies and operational units; introduction of automatic replenishment of airmen's clothings and streamlining provisioning and purchase procedures. Air Vice Marshal Loreto Pestana Pereira has thus shown outstanding qualities of leadership, conceptual ability and professional competence. With a spirit of dedication and exemplary sense of duty he has rendered distinguished service of the most exceptional order. Air Vice Marshal Loreto Pestana Pereira has thus rendered distinguished service of the most exceptional order. | |||
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Reference : GoI19820126 |