Over the past years, in addition to fulfilling its production and business tasks, the corps’ Party Committee and Command have comprehensively and effectively directed and implemented military and defense work, serving as a firm “furculum” for local authorities and people in border areas.
Quach Cong Quan, a worker of Production Team No.6, Branch 716 of Corps 15, from Ia Dal border commune, Ia H’Drai district, Kon Tum province, is a member of a self-managed team for border marker No.16 and a 1.5km-long border section. Besides his production work, he is responsible for managing the border and border markers then reports on any arising issues to the Ho Le Border Post, Kon Tum provincial Border Guard Command and functional authorities, as well as participating in border patrols as planned by the border post.
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He held that his family, along with many other households, has been allocated rubber plantations by Branch 716 in the border area. Therefore, they are present in the plantations from midnight to tap latex. They have become “living border markers,” acting as frontline troops in border areas.
Meanwhile, since being recruited by Company 715, Corps 15 as a worker and joining the company’s self-defense platoon, Puih De, a local people in Mit Jep village, Ia O border commune, Ia Grai district, Gia Lai province, is now entrusted with many tasks.
According to Puih De, the self-defense forces in Company 715 and Corps 15 were well trained in politics, laws, technical skills, and tactics. They serve as the core force in handling national defense and security situations in villages, company, and production teams, while also assisting the locality in disaster prevention, rescue efforts, rural development, and poverty reduction. As a result, local people consider these self-defense soldiers as fulcrums to help them maintain peace, boost economic growth, and eliminate backward customs.
According to Senior Colonel Tran Ngoc Hai, Deputy Commander and Chief of Staff of Corps 15, over the past 40 years, the unit has played a crucial role in reviving new lands in the Central Highlands region and Southwestern region in Quang Binh province, resettling nearly 15,000 households with over 50,000 people, establishing 266 residential clusters along 251km of border areas. This effort has helped eliminate uninhabited border region and supported local authorities to establish three new districts, 13 communes, and 24 villages along the borderline.
Meanwhile, the corps has effectively implemented measures to strengthen local defense capabilities and establish people’s heart posture, to name but a few.
Translated by Minh Anh