PANO - The Military Technical Academy (MTA) of the Vietnam People’s Army on October 28 held a ceremony to mark its 50th founding anniversary (October 28, 1966) and receive the second-class Independence Order.

Present at the ceremony were State President Tran Dai Quang, Deputy Defense Minister, Senior Lieutenant General Be Xuan Truong, leaders of Central and local branches and sectors, former and current staff and cadets of the academy.

Addressing the ceremony, MTA’s Director, Major General Nguyen Cong Dinh recalled the academy’s history of construction and development over the past time. Fifty years ago, the academy’s predecessor, a sub-institute of the Hanoi University of Science and Technology, was established to train military technical engineers to serve the national resistance war against foreign invaders and the development of the army.

President Tran Dai Quang presenting the second-class Independence Order to the academy

During the school’s development, generations of its teachers and students have always brought into play the noble traditions and virtues of the heroic Vietnam People’s Army to overcome difficulties and well fulfill all assigned missions.

Alongside training military technical officers for the army, the academy has also provided training courses for thousands of officials from Central agencies and domestic sectors and organizations as well as for officers from Cambodia and Laos. In recent years, it continuously renewed its training methods and training programs while enhancing international cooperation in education and scientific research, contributing to meeting task requirements for rapid growth of science and technology in the current context.

Highly speaking of the school’s achievements in the past, President Quang asked them to continuously grasp resolutions and directives of the Party, State, Central Military Commission and Ministry of National Defense, particular the Resolution of the 12th National Congress of the Communist Party of Vietnam.

In addition, he called on the academy to continuously renovate its training methods and programs, add up new subjects to its curricula, step up scientific research and effectively apply new weapons and equipment to its education and training.

The academy should keep strengthening capabilities of their teachers and commanders, improving their moralities and professionalism as well as boosting cooperation with training establishments across the world, with the aim of advancing its training quality in the time to come, he added.

Translated by Trung Thanh