This sad incident happened in 2013 as reported by TOI. A lady cadet from Ladakh named Stanzin Odzes who made it in the prestigious officers training academy, Chennai lost her life during a jungle training. She was an inspiration for the youth of Ladakh and motivated many others to join the Indian army. Indian Army conducts Late lady cadet Stanzin Odzes memorial ice hockey tournament every year to remember her.
23-year-old woman officer cadet from Ladakh died of snakebite on Friday during jungle training at Thiruporur, about 60km from Chennai. Stanzin Odzes of Leh, a lady cadet of the Chennai-based Officers Training Academy, had recently come to the city for a 49-week long training programme. She was part of a seven-member team undergoing training in map reading. They had to locate places earmarked on the map in the jungle area. Stanzin’s colleagues found her lifeless after a while. They rushed her to a makeshift clinic in the dense jungle where doctors said she had died of snakebite. The army officers involved in the training exercise informed the Thiruporur police who arrived at the spot and moved the body to the Chengalpet Government Hospital for postmortem. Officers who had undergone this training earlier said “it is tough and there have been instances of people being bitten by dangerous insects as it is a dense forest area. But this is the first time a snakebite incident has been come to light.” As news of the death spread, a pall of gloom descended on the OTA where colleagues remembered Stanzin as a soft-spoken and cheerful person.
“It is sad she had to go this way and that too in the first few weeks of her training. She was proud of having made it to the OTA and was a very helpful person,” said an officer. The gruelling 49-week course of the OTA, an establishment of the Army that trains officers for the Short Service Commission, prepares graduates for all branches of the Army, except for the Army Medical Corps. The first batch of 25 women to be commissioned into the Army, were trained at the OTA with training commencing in September 1992. The OTA has three training camps at Uthavakam, Kiloor and Nelikuppam in the district. The Thiruporur police have registered a case of unnatural death.
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