Is working in the Indian Army over-hyped ?

First of all i would like to make note of one thing is that, these idiotic questions dint even qualify to be called genuine issues nor genuine queries. Still there are some morons who dare ask these silly questions which are no less then result of a well rehearsed anti-national thought. These doubts and questions are mere an attempt to test nationalistic views among the true Indians and exaggerate these doubts and serve them as real issues. Here is this brilliant lady who has given the perfect reply to a moron asking this idiotic question.
This idiotic question was raised on Quora and a sister of an Indian Army officer gave a befitting reply. I shared this with you all to make you understand what it takes to be an officer in the mighty Indian Army and how their family takes it day to day. This answer of our sister is also a tight slap to all anti-national elements.

"Sonia Chauhan, LLB Bachelor of Law & Commercial Laws of India, Army Institute of Law (2010)
Updated Jun 16, 2015

I would have liked to go Anon on this question but yet again, I want you to understand that I have lived the life that qualifies me to answer your question.

I am the daughter of a retired Army Colonel, and my only brother is a serving army officer.

The Indian Army is not over-hyped, my friend. It pays you average money by upper middle class standards. It gives ace facilities, no doubt. Horse-riding, polo, golf courses, canteen, rent-free accommodation, the works. Since the Army asks total obedience from their men, it takes care of their ageing parents, and other marital obligations. So, yes - the facilities are good.

Regardless, in my opinion, the Indian Army is not over hyped for two reasons:

1. Most men of the Indian Army have seen faced some real-time action. From doctors to lawyers to masons, all men in the army have seen some life jeopardizing situation or other in their lives. Because India needs constant protection from the lovely set of neighbors it has - China, and Pakistan.
Inside India, there are many CI situations that constantly demand the Army's blood (e.g., Maoism / Naxalites / Bodoland folks). Therefore, the Army does a lot of covert operations, therefore, as a career - it takes a lot of toil. Much more than any other career, in my opinion.

You can choose to deny the truth - but a lot of us  (and I am speaking for ALL STATES OF INDIA - THE POPULATION OF INDIA) won't be alive had the Army not helped us. You may be sitting in a comfy office in Gurgaon or other such metro area so and think this is the World. You don't realise that a lot of people would have died in the Surat floods had some Captain not cancelled his leave just to help them out, or that 1000s of lives were saved in Andamans due to the military copters who also lifted out the civilians while helping Army families stuck there. Don't be offended, I am only informing you of the certain facts that may not have occurred to you otherwise.

2. There is no rest, and that makes you a better person.
My father retired some years back. He still wakes up at 5 am, shaves, and heads out for a walk. Fills potholes in the roads, paints speed breakers that are otherwise invisible. On a day it rains, he is restless. I tell him, Papa, chill no. Wake up at 7. Relax. He continues.

Recently, our neighbouring apartment caught fire in the middle of the night. Everyone panicked, including my mother. My father was calm. He controlled the fire, called the fire brigade and actually rescued the people who were living on the floors above us. Army men are simply better trained to manage disasters than the ordinary person.

Amongst a random selection of person, an army man has sterling survival tactics. They can climb trees, ropes, do basic running, lighting a fire, pitching a tent, lifting heavy weights and jogging, etc.

My point is, the Army teaches you to accept a life of toil, and then it becomes habit. And isn't that a better life? Rather than landing home at 6.30 p.m. and playing PS3 or going to the mall to watch a movie. There, the Army teaches a beautiful way of life like no other profession does. For this itself, it deserves more applause than it does.

I remember a telephone conversation I once had with my brother after I had heard of a copter crash in X location. He was posted nearby. I asked him if he was alright. He said yes, yes, all good with me. Just.. my senior was in that copter. We are finding him - let's see.. There was something in his voice. They suffer, they suffer in silence. For friends, for family.

I would have loved to join the Indian Army, but I am ashamed to say that I cannot wake up at 6 in the morning and go for a run in 5 degrees temp like my brother and my father. For this reason alone, the Indian Army is not over hyped. For can you think of a profession that make a better man out of you?

P.S. The Army men travelling in uniforms are most likely catching a quick flight back home or reporting straight to duty and don't have a place to change. Otherwise, it is not procedure. The only time I saw my father travel in his uniform in a civilian means of transport was during the Kargil war.

You say that you don't owe them anything and that they don't sacrifice anything. The next time you see an Army Man looking all smug in a uniform, imagine him sitting on his haunches cradling his AK-47,  in front of a meager fire, on top of some moss-covered mountain. They are lonely men battling the weather before the enemy."