October 15, 2017 | 15:53 (GMT+7)
MND leader inspects Air Defense - Air Force Academy
PANO - Senior Lieutenant General Phan Van Giang, member of the Party Central Committee, permanent member of the Central Military Commission, Chief of the General Staff of the Vietnam People’s Army and Deputy Defense Minister on October 13 paid an inspection visit to the Air Defense - Air Force Academy.
General Giang at the Technical Training Center
At the working session, the academy’s Director, Major General Ha Xuan Truong reported on outcomes of the academy’s task performance in the 2016-2017 academic year and the first two months of the 2017-2018 academic year.
Highlights of the task performance were comprehensive implementation of all areas, fulfilment of set targets, high quality of education and training and scientific research work, basic and physical training in combination with real situations, improved foreign-language teaching and learning, positive progress in regularity building and disciplinary observation and good guarantee of logistics, technical services and finance. Of note, in the 2016-2017 academic year, the academy was presented with the Ministry of National Defense’s flag of emulation.
Having checked the Technical Training Center, auditorium, training grounds and observed the teaching and studying of the academy’s instructors and trainees, General Giang hailed the academy’s recent achievements and pointed out shortcomings that the academy should fix in the coming time.
He urged the academy to continue embracing the Party’s comprehensive education and training innovation policy and other resolutions and directives by the Central Military Commission and the Ministry of National Defense, to follow closely the Air Defense - Air Force Service’s requirements and missions to further renovate its curricula, teaching methods and to improve training quality.
The academy was also requested to build a contingent of high-quality instructors and education managers, to pay due attention to comprehensively training its trainees to be excellent at foreign languages, commanding capabilities, physical strength and other skills to meet requirements of each post they might hold after graduation, to boost research on military science and arts of war, and to take advantage of weapons, technical equipment and facilities.
Translated by Mai Huong