Gunjan Saxena, the lady IAF fighter who served 8 years in the Indian Air Force . At the time of commission in IAF she was a helicopter pilot as a "Flight Lieutenant". In the 1999 Kargil war , she was one of the female pilots to take part in the Kargil war. She was also listed as a "first female pilot to fly in a combat zone". She was deployed in the Kargil along with the other woman of the IAF was flight lieutenant Srividya Rajan . They were the first women in the IAF history to deploy with the Cheetah helicopters in a war flying zone. In Kargil, her main duty was to evacuate the troops, transport the supplies and the surveillance. After the Kargil war, she was getting "Shaurya Veer" award from a civilian organization in Uttar Pradesh. ( The Netflix movie, Gunjan Saxena: The Kargil Girl, we saw that she was getting a Shaurya Chakra that is totally wrong information. Gunjan Saxena, she claimed that she had never gotten a Shaurya Chakra. ) In 1994 the f