VIRAT, DARMI AND HEENA

About:

• Virat is a horse with the President’s Bodyguard (PBG), while Darmi and Heena are Army dogs.
  
  
• Virat, a Hanoverian breed, was issued to the PBG on September 12, 2000. He performed his duties as the Commandant’s charger for over a decade and awed spectators, including foreign dignitaries, with his trademark poise and confidence, an official said.
  
  
• The Army has eight different trades of dogs: tracker, guard, mine detection, explosive detection, infantry patrol, avalanche rescue operations, search and rescue, assault and narcotic detection.
  
  
• Darmi was pressed into service for a search and rescue operation at a post on the Siachen Glacier on April 25 last year.
  
  
• Heena, a Labrador retriever, is a tracker aged five years and is highly loyal, even-tempered, intelligent, obedient and exceptionally reliable.