{"id":71,"date":"2011-04-20T20:25:00","date_gmt":"2011-04-20T20:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jjamwal.in\/blog\/?p=71"},"modified":"2011-04-20T20:25:00","modified_gmt":"2011-04-20T20:25:00","slug":"kempys-nose","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jjamwal.in\/yayavar\/kempys-nose\/","title":{"rendered":"Kempy&#8217;s Nose"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I read this in Bharat Rakshak Forums <a href=\"http:\/\/forums.bharat-rakshak.com\/viewtopic.php?p=1073774#p1073774\">here<\/a>.  A gem of an anecdote and most likely it&#8217;s free for sharing.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-size:130%;\">KEMPY\u2019s NOSE <\/span><\/strong><br \/><strong>(An Incredible Story Of Indiscipline : Eastern Air Force 1976. A Tale Of What Not To Do) <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The  dark,  ominous,  thunder  heads  had  been  rising  from  the  depths  of  Subansary  valley  all morning.  The  orographic  winds  pushed  them  up  the  slopes  and  the  impetus  helped  it  to  climb higher  and  higher  till  the  cataclysmic  thermodynamics  of  thunder  clouds  unleashed  enough energy to help them climb unrestricted to unimaginable height, hell bent on destruction around \u2018Mechuka\u2019. I was in the middle of it. <\/p>\n<p>After waiting for several hours, I had got airborne from Dinjan in a MI4, on a bad weather day, to<br \/>take  the  Army  Cdr  on  a  recee  of  the  Chinese  border.    The  GOC  had  other  preoccupations  and hence I got airborne close to 1100 hrs, something which we had been told not to do, due to bad weather and turbulence inside the hills after 1200 hrs. The Eastern Air Force, those days, was a different sort of IAF, much like the CIA operations in Lagos, a decade earlier, except that we did neither gun running nor dope peddling like the CIA, we were very socially useful and productive fellows.  Most of the guys in Chabua were either the ones who had failed the promotion exams, or were the guys on punishment posting. The guys that the IAF did not want to have around in any self respecting squadron. Chabua was therefore the best self respecting places to be.  SOPs were made just for the pleasure of breaking the rule. Anyway, to continue my story&#8230;&#8230;, that day we went from place to place on the whim of the Army Cdr, who seemed to be enjoying himself at my expense. He kept dilly dallying at each whistle stop and as the day went by, we got hemmed in by the line squall while we were deep inside the hills.<\/p>\n<p>Flying in bad weather was nothing new to me, in those years I was compulsively drawn to it, it<br \/>was exhilarating, the most adventurous thing that I could do at the age of 26. As usual, I dumped<br \/>collective, descended to the deck, with the MI4\u2019s wheels touching the Subansary river, more like<br \/>driving a \u2018Jonga\u2019 than flying an airplane. I zig zagged along the river, acutely aware of a theorem propounded  by  my  earlier  Stn  Cdr  (Vir  Narain).  I  whistled  the  morbid  tune,  taught  to  me  by  a navigator friend, it was called \u2018point of no return\u2019.  The MI4 was one hell of a helicopter to fly. In due course, we braved the weather and got out of the hills, to my recollection, around 1600 hrs &#8230;&#8230;. about 45 minutes before sunset.<br \/>That is when I heard James Palapura on the radio. <\/p>\n<p>James  was  overhead  Tezpur  in  a  Mig  21  acting  like  an  airborne  FAC  coordinating  search  and rescue  over  Dulanmukh  range.  I  heard  arguments,  between  a  Caribou,  Chetak  and  James.  The sensible  guys  in  the  Caribou  and  Chetak  were  calling  off  the  search  and  going  home  due  to impending bad weather and darkness. James was trying to order them back. I had no business to go  anywhere  other  than  directly  east,  back  to  Chabua,  and  get  the  Army  Cdr  off  my  back.  Yet, curiosity overwhelmed me.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJames Sir\u201d, I called on the radio. \u201cWho punched out ?\u201d, I asked.<br \/>\u201cKempy\u201d, he said promptly,  and gave me a quick rundown.<br \/>It seemed Kempy (then Flt Lt Deviah, a course mate) had punched out from a Gnat earlier that<br \/>morning over Dulanmukh after he got hit by ricochet and the engine flamed out. None saw him<br \/>punch out, none noted where the aircraft went down. The place as you guys know is thick jungles,<br \/>with crazy wild animals.<\/p>\n<p>Just then my radio quit. That was not unusual. It was unusual if the radio ever worked in a MI4.<br \/>We  were  quite  used  to  flying  the  MI4  without  radio,  without  navigational  aids  of  any  kind, without anything known or popular in aeronautics, all except a wing and a prayer.<\/p>\n<p>I  went  into  a  tizzy,  \u201chicum  foocum\u201d,  sudden  rush  of  shit  to  the  brain.  I  was  beset  by  a  moral dilemma. Do I pretend not to have heard about Kempy ? Do I leave him there in the jungle and go home ? Do I rationalise that I had no business to get involved ? Do I make excuses that I had the Army Cdr on board ?  Do I make an excuse that it was going to be sun set, that the weather was bad, that I was about 40 miles north and headed in the wrong direction ?<br \/>\u2018God, I didn\u2019t even know if Kempy was dead or alive&#8230;&#8230; I said in monologue. <br \/>\u2018Oh God, my CO will make mice meat out of me\u2019, I said to myself in self defence.<br \/>No &#8230;..in retrospect, I did not bring God in between and I did not consult with him either.  I went mind  dead  for  about  four  minutes  while  I  contemplated  the  odds.  In  the  fifth  minute,  I  turned around  and  went  back  to  a  clearing  near  Passighat  which  I  had  over  flown  about  ten  minutes earlier. I went and landed on a volley ball court next to some tents and without switching off, I ordered the Army Cdr out. He was dumbfounded, initially loss of words. But when it came, he let it fly at me, alternating between request, order, court marshal, pleading and jostling. Actually he was a very fine man, a person I held in great awe. So I reasoned with him.<br \/>\u201cCourse mate down, Sir\u201d, I said in clipped military parlance.<br \/>\u201cHe needs me\u201d, I told him with finality.<br \/>\u201cYou are the Tiger, the army is here, and they will take care of you\u201d, I think I told him.  \u201cKempy is down there, I got to go before the Tigers get to him\u201d.<br \/>I think the Army Cdr made a request to take him along. I think I did not want to take him along<br \/>lest I endanger his life.  It is possible that I left him behind out of spite, for making me wait at all the places where we went and making me go through bad weather. I don\u2019t remember. It is quite possible. I was very young and impetuous.<\/p>\n<p>Any  way  I  then  headed  full  throttle  for  Dulanmukh  range.  It  was  almost  sun  set  by  the  time  I reached there. I had to ask someone the general direction in which Kempy went down. I went and landed in front of the RSO\u2019s hut and a WO ran out. He quickly pointed out the general direction and I was off the ground in a jiffy.<\/p>\n<p>The  jungles  reek  a  musty  smell  as  the  sun  begins  to  set.  I  noticed  it  because  I  was  at  tree  top height flying with both side doors wide open. There was total green cover, thick foliage. I looked for  a  fire,  broken  branches,  silvery  flash  of  the  Gnat\u2019s  fuselage  or  wings,  a  parachute,  smoke, anything  to  indicate  a  crash  site.  There  was  nothing.  I  did  not  know  where  to  go  looking.  I  did mental DR, 1\/60 rule, calisthenics to try and figure out where Kempy may have crashed. Over the whirring sound of the rotor, I had caught only snatches of what the WO had told me at the range.<br \/>He had said something about cross wind. Yes, he had said that Kempy had ejected on the cross<br \/>wind.  That  meant  close  by.  James  in  his  zealous  enthusiasm  had  misdirected  the  search  and others had gone looking for Kempy far and wide and had missed him.<br \/>I  flew  over  a  large  patch  of  open  grassy  space.  I  saw  a  large  herd  of  frightened  wild  elephants scattering in all directions with their tails and trunks held high. <br \/>\u201cKempy, where are you ?\u201d, I shrieked over the noise of the wind and the MI4.<br \/>Suddenly I heard him. I swear I heard him.  It seemed the MI4 knew where to go to find Kempy. I<br \/>swear I never flew it. It was the hand of God that held the cyclic.<\/p>\n<p>I overflew a hut in another patch of grass, and I thought I saw about 50 people milling about. The<br \/>MI4 turned around on it\u2019s own and this time I could see clearly that there was some commotion<br \/>on  the  ground.  I  closed  the  throttle,  yanked  the  speed  down  and  set  down  the  helicopter  in  a small clearing with very tall trees all around. When I switched off, the helicopter started juddering and after the rotors stopped, I realised that I had hit a tree while landing. About 7 inches of all the tail rotor blades had been cleanly shorn off. I also discovered to my horror that the Russians had made the tail rotor with ply wood.  But at that time I was not too worried about the tail rotor.I ran forward to find Kempy.<\/p>\n<p>Kempy was lying on a charpoy about 300 mtrs from where I had landed, where the villagers had<br \/>brought him out from the jungle. He appeared to be semi conscious, groaning with pain. He still<br \/>had  his  helmet  on,  though  the  mask  was  dangling  around  his  chest.  His  nose  was  completely smashed and his faced covered with blood. His nostrils were choked partially with dried mucus and blood, still oozing plasma. He was labouring for breath through his mouth, spasms raking his chest. I think he had been like that all day, while the search was on overhead, the villagers were frightened to touch him. <\/p>\n<p>The sun by then had set or was about to set.<br \/>I quickly got Kempy\u2019s helmet off, poured water on his face, cleaned his nose and mouth and made<br \/>him drink some water. He seemed partially awake but he had no situational awareness or what<br \/>happened to him. It also looked as if he had suffered a compression fracture of his spine.<br \/>I knocked out the charpoy legs, loaded Kempy still on the charpoy into the MI4 and we went back<br \/>to Chabua, unmindful of the missing portion of the tail rotor, the MI4 juddering and shaking all<br \/>the way.  45 minutes later, when we landed, there was a big crowd on the tarmac, including the<br \/>Station Commander and my CO, late Jayaraman.  The docs took charge of Kempy and I think he<br \/>was flown to Calcutta, never saw him afterwards, for a long time.<\/p>\n<p>The CO took me by the elbow and marched me to his jeep. Never said a word. He went straight to<br \/>the  bar,  where  Durga  the  ever  smiling  barman  poured  us  both  a  large  Rum  with  water,  the favourite  drink  in  Chabua.  There  were  many  others  too  in  the  bar.  Jayaraman,  took  a  sip  and  I think he could not control himself any more.<br \/>\u201cI don\u2019t know what to do with you\u201d, he said.<br \/>\u201cFirst you broke the 12 O\u2019Clock rule\u201d, he waved the glass in my face. My untouched glass still on<br \/>the bar counter. True to Rimcolian tradition, I always took bull shit standing at attention. In RIMC, it was believed that attention was the only safe position to ward off predation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI  can  understand  that  you  came  out  of  the  hills  at  2  O\u2019clock,  I  can  forgive  you  if  it  went  to  3 O\u2019Clock. But I cannot suffer in silence if you decided to clear the hills at sun set\u201d. His voice was quivering with emotion. There was pin drop silence in the bar. All drinks lay untouched on the bar counter.  He took another sip.<br \/>\u201cYou got into bad weather\u201d.  He paused. \u201cNo, not just bad weather, you f***ing had to go and<br \/>penetrate  a  line  squall and  mapped  the  Sunasari  river  with  your  wheel  to  get  out\u201d.    I  began  to wonder  where  he  had  heard  that  one.  Then  I  realised  that  the  army  may  still  be  searching  for their Army Cdr.  \u201cI can understand if you left behind an army captain\u201d, he said very softly. He took another sip of Rum and water.<br \/>\u201cI can understand if you left behind a Colonel. I can forgive you even if had left behind the GOC 2 Div\u201d.  He paused, seemingly at a loss of words.  \u201cF***ing shit bag, you went and left the Army Cdr on a f***ing BSF picket and he is sitting on a charpoy right now\u201d. Jaya banged his glass on the bar counter, and lit a cigarette.  Through a smoke ring, he kept staring at me. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou went and chopped up your tail rotor, and had the audacity to fly it right back to Chabua\u201d,<br \/>he said softly. I thought I could make out a note of admiration in his voice.<br \/>\u201cSir\u201d, I said pleasantly. \u201cI shall go and pick up the Army Cdr first thing tomorrow morning\u201d.<br \/>Jaya was my best friend, my guru, my only mentor, my only benefactor in all my years in uniform.<br \/>\u201cYou will do nothing of the sort\u201d, he roared like a lion. \u201cI shall pick up the Army Cdr myself\u201d, he said.  \u201cYou\u201d&#8230;..he  paused  for  effect.  \u201cYou  are  f***ing  going  on  permanent  detachment  to Chakabama\u201d. He said with finality. Chakabama, a helipad in the middle of nowhere in Nagaland was the loneliest place those days, detachment in Chakabama was akin to solitary confinement.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut for now, Barman&#8230;..\u201d he commanded, looking for Durga. \u201cThe drink will be on the house, put<br \/>it all on Kartoos, he will pay for the drinks tonight\u201d.<br \/>He then raised his glass, like a formal dining in night, \u201cFor now, let us drink to Kempy\u2019s nose\u201d.<br \/>\u201cTo Kempy\u2019s nose\u201d, we replied in unison, drowning the glass of large Rum and water in one single<br \/>bottoms up.  That night, we did bottoms up again and again, each time toasting to Kempy\u2019s nose.<br \/>My bar book was closed that night, I had exceeded Rs 75, the bar book limit.<br \/>Considering that Rum cost Rs 3.50 a bottle, and water cost nothing, we drank around 22 bottles<br \/>of Rum that night, all towards Kempy\u2019s nose. Assuming that there were around 28 of us that night<br \/>at  the  bar,  including  the  Gnat  guys  on  detachment  at  Chabua,  that  was  around  10  large  pegs each, all for good cause, Kempy\u2019s nose. May be we all had one peg each and quite possible that Jagga Barar drank the extra 28 pegs. I think it was one of those nights when Jagga did not count the pegs using match sticks, lined up on the bar counter, one stick per peg.  I think he lost count, like Counta Barar, who never counted.<\/p>\n<p>Next morning I was packed off to Chakabama in the dicky of a MI4, and I am told I kept saying \u201cTo<br \/>Kempy\u2019s Nose\u201d all the way from Chabua to Chakabama,  rather silly of me. I stayed there for three<br \/>whole months before Jaya relented and brought me back. <\/p>\n<p>Kempy  now  has  a  wonderful  nose.  Makes  him  very  handsome  and  dignified.  Every  bit  like  his illustrious martial predecessors from Koorg.  I cannot take the credit, it was the Docs at Calcutta who made Kempy\u2019s nose look Koorgi,  handsome and accomplished. Me, I take the credit only for the incredible act of closing my bar book in one night, cheering for Kempy\u2019s nose  <\/p>\n<p>Cyclic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I read this in Bharat Rakshak Forums here. A gem of an anecdote and most likely it&#8217;s free for sharing. KEMPY\u2019s NOSE (An Incredible Story Of Indiscipline : Eastern Air Force 1976. 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