The first unit of Nghe An province conducted a district-level defense area exercise in 2018

Comrades: Nguyen Xuan Son - Standing Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee, Chairman of the Provincial People's Council; Colonel Tran Van Hung - Member of the Provincial Party Committee Standing Committee, Commander of the Provincial Military Command attended and directed the exercise.

The Nghi Loc district defense area exercise is divided into 3 phases, which are: Moving armed forces into combat readiness states; Moving localities into defense states and preparing for defensive operations and practicing defensive operations.

During the exercise in the mechanism operation part, the district organized conferences in the correct order, demonstrating the leadership and management role in implementing measures to move the locality into a state of national defense and into wartime.

The conferences were all held urgently, in accordance with principles, focused, promoting democracy and collective intelligence. Members actively participated in discussions, gave advice, and proposed measures and plans that were close to hypothetical situations.

Ships mobilized to participate in protecting sea and island sovereignty - a situation in the 2018 military exercise. Photo: Quang Dung

The highlight of this exercise was the practice of moving the command post into the combat base. The soldiers mobilized human resources, vehicles and civilian vessels to hand over to the Coast Guard Region 1 Command; mobilized and received the district reserve battalion through the station and the infantry company to fight the enemy landing by air.

After nearly 3 days, the Nghi Loc district defense area exercise completed its objectives and requirements, ensuring absolute safety for people and weapons and equipment, and was ranked as excellent by the provincial defense area exercise steering committee.

Colonel Tran Van Hung - Commander of the Provincial Military Command presented gifts to soldiers who completed the live-fire exercise - Infantry company fighting enemy landing by sea. Photo: Quang Dung

The defense zone exercise has contributed to improving the leadership and direction capacity of Party committees, government administration, the advisory role of the armed forces and mass organizations, and improving combat coordination capabilities.