Jammu, Nov 23: In a change of guard, group captain R K Negi has taken over as the new station commander of Indian Air Force at Udhampur, the Northern Command Headquarters in Jammu and Kashmir, defence sources said. Negi has replaced group captain A K Sachdev as commander of IAF station in Udhampur, the sources told here today.

Negi was commissioned on 14 December 1978 as a helicopter pilot, they said

He has been associated with the army in many counter-insurgency operations in Jammu and Kashmir and was actively involved in UN Peace Keeping Mission in Sierra Leon. Bureau Report