Search and rescue force excellently complete “combat mission” in peacetime

Over the past 20 years, the department has well made recommendations to the Government to direct ministries, sectors, and localities to respond to and overcome the consequences of hundreds of storms and tens of thousands of incidents and diseases. It has dispatched around 4.2 million participating people with around 165,000 vehicles to save 73,000 people and 6,365 vehicles. 

Over the past years, the whole military sent 3.5 million participating officers and soldiers, 110,354 vehicles to save around 57,000 people and 5,000 vehicles.

For its obtained results over the past 20, the department has been presented with three Labor and one Fatherland Protection Orders by the State President; three emulation flags and eight certificates of merits of the Prime Minister; and dozens of certificates of merit of the Defense Ministry.

Below are photos of the activities of search and rescue troops over the past two decades.

Troops of Regiment 754 of the Son La provincial Military Command evacuating people in flood-hit areas in Chieng Sinh ward, Son La city to safer places on July 24, 2024

Troops actively stamping out a fire in Soc Son district, Hanoi

The search and rescue force saves fishermen on troubled ship Vietship 01.

Troops of the Ha Giang provincial Military Command searching for possible victims of the landslide in Yen Dinh commune, Bac Me district, Ha Giang province last month

Forces practicing responding to storm and conducting search and rescue work

The military usually uses force and vehicles to take troubled fishermen and patients from the Truong Sa (Spratly) Archipelago ashore for farther treatment.

Translated by Tran Hoai