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Voice For The Army, Assist For The Soldier More than 40 years later, Jacob would recall how he had asked for extra troops, some of which he got along with a brigade of para commandos. When he requested his boss to give him something in writing, Manekshaw declined, saying, 'Nothing in writing.' whereas secretary Narain added that there must be no publicity and no records. In 2008, the Cabinet Committee on Security accredited elevating two new infantry mountain divisions and an artillery brigade. In July 2009, it was reported that the Army was advocating a new artillery division. The proposed artillery division, to be beneath the Kolkata-based Eastern Command, was to have three brigades – two armed with one hundred fifty five mm howitzers and one with the Russian "Smerch" and indigenous "Pinaka" multiple-launch rocket methods. Other foreign deployments have consisted of Pakistani navy personnel serving as army advisers in varied African and Arab nations. Th