First Commander in Chief of free India

General K.M. Cariappa

First Chief of Air Staff

Sir Thomas Almhirst

First Indian Chief of Air Staff

Air Marshal Subroto Mukherjee

First Chief of Army Staff

Gen. M. Rajendra Singh

First Chief of Naval Staff

Vice Admiral R.D. Katari

First Field Marshal

Gen SFJ Manekshaw

First female General of the Indian Army

Punita Arora

She is the first female Admiral of the Indian Navy. She is the first woman to induct the rank of the lt.

First Woman Air Marshal

PadmavathyBandopadhaya

First woman Merchant Navy officer

Sonali Banerjee

The first Indian woman to join the Territorial Army as Jawan

Shanti Tigga

First female Fighter Pilots commissioned

(i) Avani Chaturvedi

(ii) Bhawana Kanth (18^th June 2016)

(iii) Mohana Singh

First recipient of Param VirChakra

Manoj Somnath Sharma

First Commandeer of the order of Arts and letters

Sivaji Ganesan

First Commander-in-Chief of free India

General Kodondera Mandapa Cariappa (1949)

First female Jawan in the Army

Sapper Shanti Tigga

First Indian Submarine

INS Carveri

First Atomic Submarine

INS Chakra

First Nuclear Submarine

INS Arihant

First Aircraft Carrier

Vikrant

First Indian Missile

Prithivi

First Medium Range Missile

Agni

First Civilian from the Indian Navy to summit Mount Everest

Brijmohan Sharma

First Commercial Non-Civilian Air Craft of India

Tejas