VPA’s marksmen win 71 medals at AARM-32

Sr. Lt. Gen. Nguyen Van Nghia (third from left) attends the closing ceremony of AARM-32.

On November 22, the closing ceremony of AARM-32 was held. Deputy Chief of the General Staff of the VPA Senior Lieutenant General Nguyen Van Nghia attended the event.

Earlier, on the morning the same day, marksmen competed in two events of the finals of AARM-32. Vietnamese army marksmen shot down all targets at the shortest time, fighting stiff off their competitors to win 25 gold medals in the relay content and five golds in the rifle category.

Militaries of ASEAN member states take turns to host this annual ASEAN Armies Rifle Meet. This year’s tournament gathered hundreds of marksmen from ASEAN militaries. The Vietnamese contingent had 25 members, competing in five categories of machine gun, rifle, carbine, women’s pistol, and men’s pistol.

Shooters are all happy about their good results at the event.

Gen. Nghia highly appreciated the Vietnamese shooters’ sense of responsibility, exchange, knowledge acquisition during the competition. He emphasized that along with attainments in the tourney, the most importance for the Vietnamese contingent was the chance to learn from their peers’ experience, not only in competition, but also in training, particularly in shooting.

AARM-32 was truly a source of opportunity for experience sharing, capability enhancement, shooting skill improvement, promotion of solidarity and friendship among ASEAN member states’ militaries.

Reported by The Toan from the Philippines

Translated by Mai Huong