WHAT IS MEANT BY COMMISSIONED
Sadly and
regretfully, we the Armed Forces
Officers neither know the meaning of
being a "commissioned" officer nor it is a part of our curriculum in the
Training Academies or the officer’s courses at any level. You as a commissioned
officer are the only category who get a commissioning parchment stamped in the
name of the President, earlier it was the King or the Queen who stamped the
parchment. By tradition the President uses his stamp and does not sign. No
civil servant of even the so called organised Group “A” Officer gets anything
like this. They get an appointment letter signed by some Under Secretary in
their department.