In his speech, Army Corps 4’s Commander Major General Le Van Huong recalled its heroic and glorious tradition. Five decades ago on July 20, 1974, the Regional Command issued a decision on the establishment of Army Corps 4. Five months since its birth, the army corps' troops joined and won Phuoc Long Road 14 Campaign, successfully liberating Phuoc Long (the first locality in the South to be liberated). The unit then achieved glorious feats-of-arms in the General Offensive and Uprising in Spring 1975 and successfully managed 11 districts of Saigon-Gia Dinh.

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Delegates at the event

In the Fatherland construction and defense cause, Army Corps 4 participated in the Southwestern border defense war and successfully fulfilled noble international duty to help Cambodia overthrow the Pol Pot genocidal regime. Since 1989, the army corps has paid attention to raising the quality of training and combat readiness capability, participated in socio-economic development mission, and actively helped locals in natural disaster and disease prevention and control. 

Speaking at the event, Deputy Defense Minister Senior Lieutenant General Pham Hoai Nam congratulated Army Corps 4 on its feats-of-arms and achievements over the past 50 years.

The defense leader asked the army corps to continue to grasp and strictly and effectively carry out the Party’s guidelines and State’s policies on military, defense, and Fatherland protection missions; the Politburo and the Central Military Commission’s resolutions on streamlining the military in the 2021-2030 period and the following years; well conduct ideological and political education.

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Sr. Lt. Gen. Pham Hoai Nam hands over the first-class Fatherland Protection Order to Army Corps 4.

At the event, authorized by the State President, Sr. Lt. Gen. Pham Hoai Nam handed over the first-class Fatherland Protection Order to Army Corps 4 in acknowledgement of its “special achievements in training, combat readiness, and unit building to contribute to socialism and the Fatherland protection cause.”

Translated by Tran Hoai