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Allegiance
  
Sri Lanka

Awards
  
WWV, RWP, RSP

Rank
  
Air vice-marshal

Name
  
Kapila Jayampathy


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Years of service
  
5 March 1982 - date

Commands held
  
Director Operations

Service/branch
  

Air vice marshal kapila jayampathy the new commander of air force


Air Marshal Kapila Jayampathy (also known as Kapila Veedhiya Bandara Jayampathy) WWV, RWP, RSP MSc (Intl Rel), MSc (Def & Strat) is the current Commander of Sri Lanka Air Force.

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Early life and education

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Kapila was received his education from Nalanda College Colombo and a graduate of PLA National Defense University in Defence Studies. He is the first officer to be nominated and appointed to the National Defense University of China, where he graduated with distinction and a fellowship.

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Air Marshal Kapila was presented with Nalanda Keerthi Sri award by his alma mater Nalanda College, Colombo in 2016.

Military career

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Kapila joined Sri Lanka Air Force on 5 March 1982 as an Officer cadet and was commissioned as a Pilot officer in General Duties branch of No. 4 Squadron SLAF in 1985. Kapila is a Qualified Helicopter Instructor (QHI) with an exceptional A-2 Instructor grading to his credit and a VVIP Pilot.

He was the Commanding Officer of the No. 7 Squadron SLAF at Sri Lanka Air Force Base Hingurakgoda. Later in the year 2000 Kapila was appointed as the Commanding Officer of the No. 6 Squadron SLAF and he was flying the Mil Mi-17 helicopters.

In January 2005 he was appointed as the Defense Advisor to the Sri Lankan High Commission in Islamabad, Pakistan.

In December 2009, he took over duties as the Base Commander Sri Lanka Air Force Base China Bay. Latyer when SLAF Base China Bay was upgraded and renamed as the Air Force Academy, he was re-designated as the Commandant of the Air Force Academy.

He has followed Bell Helicopter Transition Courses at Bell Textron, Texas, USA- 1986, Joint Air Warfare Course at IAF in India -1992, Junior Command and Staff Course at PAF in Pakistan -1992, Air Crew Instructors Course at RAF, Cranwell, UK -1996, Defense Resource Management Course, Bangkok, Thailand- 1997, Air Doctrine symposium, Guam, USA- 1998, Cobra Gold Combined Exercise, Bangkok, Thailand- 2001, Defense Resource Management Course – Naval Post Graduate School, Monterey, California USA - 2004, National Defense Course, China in 2008/2009, during his service career.

References

Kapila Jayampathy Wikipedia