According to the rules of the Field Kitchen contest, the organizers provide ingredients and the participating teams must use these ingredients to cook the requested dishes. After four hours, the Vietnamese competitors successfully prepared the ordered dishes, including fish salad, cabbage and green bean soup, baked potatoes with vegetables, rice porridge with pumpkin, and lemon juice.
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The VPA's Field Kitchen Team cooking according to the menu |
The jury panel stated that the dishes of the VPA's Field Kitchen Team were fresh, delicious, and rich in flavor. With a score of 158.3, the team had a breakthrough in the competition, ranked third, right after the teams from Russia and Belarus.
Today, the Vietnamese team will compete in the third stage of the "Cooking and bread baking according to the menu and the Contest-given recipes No.2" competition.
Setting target to become the top 4 teams
On August 26 (local time), the VPA's Sniper Team performed well in the "Snipers in defense" contest and ranked fourth among the seven participating teams.
After nine exercises of Phase 1, the Sniper Team of the Vietnam People's Army ranked behind the Belarusian, Uzbekistan and Russian teams.
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The Vietnamese Snipper team |
Captain Phan Chu Trinh ranked third among 28 snipers, while Captain Nguyen Dinh Hoa stood at the 13th position, and Non-commissioned Senior Lieutenant Nguyen Ngoc Chien at 14.
As planned, seven teams of Group A, including Belarus, Uzbekistan, Russia, Vietnam, Armenia, Serbia, and Tajikistan will continue to compete in the seven Exercises of the second stage in the "Pair test" competition. Uzbekistan is a strong team, and has an opportunity to compete for the first position with Belarusian team.
According to Senior Colonel Bui Danh Hieu, head of the Vietnamese sniper team, the fourth position of the first stage is a secure place for the Vietnamese snipers to take on the second stage of the "Pair Test" Competition, which will be held from August 28 to 30.
The Vietnamese snipers have now been familiar with the training grounds, weather conditions, and equipment. The next goal of the team is to become a top four team in Group A, and to compete in the third stage of the "Dual" competition and the fourth stage of the “Who is faster" contest.
No surrender despite facing many difficulties
The Vietnamese team joined the first contest, named "Commander’s Race," of the “Clear Sky” event on August 26.
Seven commanders of the seven participating teams joined the competition, while the rest of team members supported their commanders during the contest. The Vietnamese five-member team finished the contest in the fifth place.
The "Commander’s Race" includes the following categories: shoulder-fired missile shooting, AK-12 shooting, and hurdle crossing. With great efforts, the Vietnamese contestants destroyed 2 out of 3 targets in the shoulder-fired missile category, shot down 5/6 targets in the AK-12 gun category, and excellently completed all remaining items.
Joining the Army Games for the first time, the “Clear Sky” team of Vietnam faces various difficulties, and the results of the team in the first day of competition were not as good as expected. The Vietnamese team still shows their strong determination to perform better in the remaining contents of the competition.
*After a day of postponement due to the weather, the “Military Medical Relay Race” event continued to take place on August 27 at the Forish training grounds in Tashkent, Uzbekistan.
This was the “Individual skill” exercise of the “Military Medical Relay” contest for doctors and junior medical staff and armored vehicle drivers. The Vietnamese participating teams also complete in throwing grenades, disassembling guns, climbing over a two meter high wall for men and 1.5 meter wall for women, crossing barriers, and crawling under a BTR- 80 armored personnel carrier.
The number of teams participating in the “Military Medical Relay” contest in the Army Games 2020 is not large, but the Vietnamese team must compete with their strong peers from Russia, Uzbekistan and Belarus. The Vietnamese medical team has made great efforts and achieved good results compared to last year's event.
In the afternoon of the same day, a contest for ambulance drivers was also held at the Forish training grounds. The Typhoon-K MRAP vehicle is a kind of the armored truck. Although they had had no experience in driving this vehicle before, Vietnamese drivers tried hard to complete the content safely.
Translated by Lam Anh