Living Passionate life on the Edge : Maj Jacob on passion talks with delhi Rommel

Passion Talks

Major Vivek Jacob (Veteran – Indian Army, Special Forces)

Founder and Director - C.L.A.W Global & Operation Blue Freedom Foundation

I was born into an Indian middle-class family and proudly joined the Army in my

teens to serve my country. Post formal training at the National Defence Academy, I

volunteered for and qualified as a Special Forces Operative. I specialised in Counter

– Terrorist Operations and was trained in various skills oriented to delivering precise

force in combat. I had the fortune to lead my men in numerous combat missions

during my service spanning 14 years. It was while being deployed in the United

Nations Mission in Africa as the commander of the Hostage Extraction Troop, that

my understanding of what it meant to be alive, human and free, began to evolve.

In 2015, I suffered a spinal cord injury in a combat skydive. While recovering in

hospital, I met an Airforce officer permanently paralysed in a mishap. The days spent

in hospital further changed my perspective of life. I voluntarily retired from the Army

and began a life focused on creation rather than destruction.

As I began a new journey, other ex- SF mates started joining in and we formed up

under the flagship - C.L.A.W global - a team of highly trained former Special Forces

soldiers. Specialists in scuba Diving, mountaineering, skydiving, un-armed combat,

survival, emergency medical response, etc. We united our energy to teach these

adventure and life skills to people with disabilities and tribal youth in villages. Our

focus being to design and deliver sustainable, large-scale employment solutions for

the handicapped and the underprivileged in the Environment Protection &

Conservation space.

In 2019, Team C.L.A.W launched Operation Blue Freedom. A movement to

express the powerful spirit and ability of people with disabilities. To evolve the

perception of society towards who they are and what they are capable of. To secure

their right to dignity. To exercise their ability to contribute value and inspire freedom.

For all.

For more than a year, the Op Blue Freedom Team has travelled across the length

of India and trained more than a 100 people paralysed by spinal cord injuries in

Scuba diving. Our first step.

We are presently preparing for Triple World Records, in the three elements of Land,

Sea and Air, by people with disabilities. A statement of hope, inspiration, resilience

and change. For people with disabilities and the able bodied alike across the world.

Sans race, religion or international boundaries.

Freedom is a collective experience. Either we all have it or none of us do.