Rear Admiral Bisht appointed Eastern Fleet Commander

• Rear Admiral HCS Bisht has been appointed Flag Officer Commanding Eastern Fleet. The Rear Admiral is currently Flag Officer Sea Training (FOST) under the Southern Naval Command here. He is expected to assume command of the fleet by the end of January.
• Commissioned into the Navy in July 1979, Rear Admiral Bisht is a gunnery and missile specialist. He held the post of the Chief of Staff (COS) of the Southern Naval Command from November 2008 to August 2009. His afloat tenures include commands of stealth frigate Tabar and missile corvette Kora. He also held the post of Fleet Gunnery Officer Eastern Fleet.
• The Rear Admiral has held important ashore appointments like Assistant Controller Aircraft Carrier Projects; Defence Attaché, Singapore; and Director, Naval Intelligence. The Rear Admiral is a graduate of the Royal Naval Staff College, Greenwich, England.