Deputy Chief of the General Department of Political Affairs Lieutenant General Trinh Van Quyet attended and handed over the order to the provincial military command.

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Lieutenant General Trinh Van Quyet hands over the second-class Military Exploit Order to the Hai Duong provincial Military Command.

The order was higher levels’ acknowledgement of the provincial armed forces’ achievements in military building and defense consolidation.

At the ceremony, delegates recalled the 75 years of development of Hai Duong’s armed forces. In the resistance war against French colonialists, the province’s troops and people participated in more than 13,600 battles; annihilated, injured, captured more than 66,500 enemy’s troops; destroyed 121 locomotives, 912 wagons, 762 military vehicles; set fire to 25 warships and canoes.

During the resistance war against U.S. imperialists, more than 150,000 youths of Hai Duong province headed to the front-line. The province’s armed forces cooperated with air defense troops to shoot down 83 aircraft of different kinds.

Over the past years, the province’s armed forces have effectively made recommendations to local Party Committee and authorities to deal with circumstances, contributing to firmly maintaining political stability for socio-economic development, raising the combat power of the whole people’s defense, consolidating the whole people’s defense posture in combination with the whole people’s security posture, and building strong defensive areas. The provincial military command has also always fulfilled all enlistment targets with high quality. 

Translated by Tran Hoai