Military units start new-year training

PANO – From February 29^th, a number of military units started their new-year training and emulation movements of 2016.

* Deputy Minister of National Defence Senior Lieutenant General Be Xuan Truong attended the ceremony of the Bac Kan provincial Military Command. 

Addressing the ceremony, General Truong asked the provincial armed forces to continue grasping and strictly carrying out the Central Military Commission’s Resolution on raising training quality in the period of 2013-2020 and the years to come, and the Politburo’s Resolution on building provinces and cities into firm defensive areas. He said that the provincial military command should train troops in accordance with real life situations while giving advice to local party committees and authorities to help them prepare for conducting defensive area exercises.

Troops of Regiment 101, Division 325, Army Corps 2

* Agencies under the General Department of Logistics of the Vietnam People’s Army will instruct units and schools to carry out logistics work and train forces basically, practically and soundly. They will also focus on renewing training methodology and organising training and education courses for their troops and staff to meet mission requirements. 

* The General Department of Techniques will promote training for in-service officers to boost their awareness of political and military missions and their staff’s ability and updateinformation about military technologies. The whole General Department will organise line-up regulation and shooting training, promote the application of information technology in managing training and exercises, as well as regularly check training results.

* In the coming time, agencies and units of Military Zone 2 will continue grasping and promoting the implementation of resolutions of the Central Military Command and the military zone’s Party Committee, conducting training and exercises to raise the combat capability of forces in defensive areas, and carrying out mass mobilisation work.

* Meanwhile, Military Zone 3’s armed forces will grasp the Party’s guidelines on military and defence, and focus on raising the strength of the regional armed forces.

Military Zone 3’s Commander Major General Vu Hai San asked its agencies to strictly carry out the General Staff’s and the military zone’s orders on military and defence missions in 2016.

* In 2016, Hanoi Capital Command will renew training methods to help its troops master weapons to meet the demand of missions in the new context. It also targets to raise the quality of militiamen and reservist training.

* The Border Guard Command will pay attention to renewing training methods, strengthening political education, raising the quality of line-up regulation and tactical training and exercises, and building a regular unit.

* Military Hospital 175 of the Ministry of National Defence also launched its new-year training and an emulation movement to mark the 70^th anniversary of the traditional day of military medicine which falls on April 16^th.

Accordingly, the hospital will focus on line-up regulations, military ceremonials, K54 and AK shooting training for non-commissioned officers and defence workers, continue treating people and troops and giving medical assistance to Truong Sa Island’s district of Khanh Hoa, train doctors and nurses for level-2 field hospitals to participate in UN peacekeeping operations, prepare forces and medical equipment for the Hospital for Traumatology and Orthopaedics and Military Hospital 175 which is being rebuilt.