At the meeting, Lieutenant General Tran Huu Phuc, Director of the Department of Defense School Management under the General Staff of the Vietnam People’s Army, said that under the close direction of higher authorities and the good task performance of military academies and schools, the education and training service in the 2016-2017 academic year had enjoyed positive progresses and important outcomes.
Lieutenant General Phan Van Giang speaking at the event
According to General Phuc, the quality of training at military academies and schools has improved, meeting the requirements of military development in the current period; furthermore, graduates have been capable of fulfilling their missions assigned by their units.
On behalf of the Central Military Commission and the Ministry of National Defense’s leadership, Lieutenant General Phan Van Giang, permanent member of the Central Military Commission, Chief of the General Staff and Deputy Defense Minister, hailed the cadets. He asked the graduates to study further and practice at their units and to clearly define their assigned missions and be active and innovative in applying what they have acquired at schools to real situations at their units to become good officers and talented researchers.
Regarding the mission of building and safeguarding the nation in the current context, General Giang asked academies and schools to enhance their leadership to promote the efficiency of the education in politics and ideology for their personnel and cadets, so that they could embrace and implement well all resolutions by the Party, the Central Military Commission and the Ministry of National Defense to better train their contingent of cadres and technical officers.
The academies and schools were also required to have graduates with a firm political stance, good morals, high capabilities and professionalism that help them achieve all assigned missions.
General Giang also requested relevant agencies of the Ministry of National Defense to improve their advisory task and direct the improved quality of training at academies and schools to meet the requirements of building a revolutionary, regular, elite and gradually modernized army.
He urged units receiving new graduates to create favorable conditions for them to quickly grasp the units’ situations, apply their knowledge to reality and contribute to the units’ development and become good officers.
Translated by Mai Huong