I know many instructors from the schools you proudly quote and i can tell you that until 2011 i am really sure that no Garud deployment took place for counter terror ops.
Since you are the guy who claims Garuds to be part of SURGICAL STRIKES i would trust the journalists who you claim writes the nonsense.
I dont think tens of journalist of leading papers can be wrong.
As far as i am concerned i know where the nonsense comes from!!
Good for you, I know many highly placed sources in MI, RAW and Garud flight commanders. Enough to know who to trust. Every operation including the Surgical Strikes have many details cloaked in secrecy so much so that even teams from Para at different locations didn't know till after action that others in their own battlion were being sent across the border for raids. Sorry but instructors at schools are the last people to know anything about live ops ongoing across a massive region. Moreso, Garuds and Marcos work a lot more in secrecy than Para which is more in the public eye due to their larger numbers, quick deployment presense in key trouble spots and teams spreadout across a wide area.
After repeated checks with different sources, I still maintain that a squad of Garuds were deployed that night or the same week for an op to target some of the handlers of the Pathankot attack. I still can't confirm if they went in by foot or HAHOed in from a Mi-17 Helo. They assure me, that Garuds did exact some revenge with a few enemy KIA ( can't confirm the number). My sources refuse to confirm the timeline or the methods. When I spoke to my source initially the same evening of the sucessful surgical strike, he mentioned Garuds also took part in an op, I assumed the same night but that was my mistake, for now I can't confirm if they went in the same night or the same week.
What many people fail to see that the days and weeks before and after Uri saw many ops, some were daring cross border raids in broad day light where even documented videos have been uploaded. A lot of Puki posts were destroyed either in artillery barrages and cross border actions by Ghataks and others. There was even a massive artillery assault on 4-5 major camps deep in Pak where over 150+ kills were exacted on the enemy including many Puki regulars and pigs blown to mush. Many in the upper echelons believe Uri was an op in revenge of these assaults.
The entire surgical strike prep also had IAF doing serious prep work which pushed the enemy to believe a massive air raid was imminent.
A lot of what I initially claimed through my sources (way before any detailed account was given by people in the IA) from the surgical strikes have been proven true anyways including Ghataks from the same Uri platoon dishing out hefty revenge (heck they even recieved medals for their work). Even the kill estimates have been correct with me claiming well over 70 based on my source while intial reports only had 20-30.
