hahah on the contrary, after 9,10 & 1 SF,
21 & 2 SF should've been reseve battalions, and the expansion of SF should've stopped there and then
I don't agree with this point! The thing is before 21MLI was raised by Shinde uncle to 21SF in 1995, 1&10 used to carry out OPs in the NE region!
21 was converted for this this specific reason only but they did operate in the the J&K for gaining the needed experience, mostly in and around Lolab and Rajwar area!
And in the early 2000s 2Airborne was converted to SF to support 1, 3Airborne was converted to support 10, 4Airborne was converted to support 9!
The idea was always to have 2 specific SFs in each theatre(North, West and NE)!
6Airborne was due for conversion in 2006 to support 21 in NE but it was called of, then in 2011 11SF was raised followed by 12SF in 2012!
13SF was raised for Desert and High-Alti Warfare in 2022 and 5,6&7 were also converted parallelly!
Now the thoughts are for each theatre to have three SFs each with one SF on rotation for HA posting and five Sf units to under the 50th PARA Bgd!