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Nghe An Provincial Armed Forces: Deserving of the title of Heroic Unit twice

Colonel Nguyen Ky Hong - Political Commissar of Nghe An Provincial Military Command • December 16, 2024 06:42

In any circumstances, in combat, combat service or performing tasks in the current new period, the Nghe An Provincial Armed Forces always deserve to be a trustworthy political force, a fighting army, a working army, a production laborer absolutely loyal to the Party, the Fatherland and the People, worthy of the title of twice Heroic Unit of the People's Armed Forces.

Colonel Nguyen Ky Hong
Political Commissar of Nghe An Provincial Military Command
16/12/2024

Proud to be the People's Armed Forces on the land rich in patriotic and revolutionary traditions in the heroic Soviet homeland. In any conditions and circumstances, in combat, combat service or performing tasks in the current new era, the People's Armed Forces of Nghe An province always deserve to be a trustworthy political force, a fighting army, a working army, a production laborer absolutely loyal to the Party, the Fatherland and the People, worthy of the title of the twice-Heroic Unit of the People's Armed Forces.

After 79 years (August 21, 1945 - August 21, 2024) of building, fighting and growing, the Nghe An Provincial Armed Forces have highly promoted the achievements of the "Red Self-Defense" teams, always upholding revolutionary courage, achieving many feats, leaving many historical marks in the resistance war against French colonialism. More than 80,000 outstanding children of Nghe An hometown volunteered to join the Army, providing additional support to the front line, directly contributing to the construction of the first main force Corps of the Vietnam People's Army; building and organizing 150,000 militia and guerrillas; mobilizing nearly 200,000 laborers and youth volunteers to transport tens of thousands of tons of food and provisions, opening traffic routes. Coordinated with the main force to serve combat and fight on the battlefields. Mobilized and contributed more than 100,000 tons of food and provisions to the fronts. Nghe An armed forces are the core force leading the way on the front line of fighting hunger and illiteracy and are a reliable force in the land revolution in rural areas.

During more than 20 years of resistance against the invading American imperialists, the Nghe An Armed Forces simultaneously carried out 4 missions on 3 battlefields, highly concentrating on ideology, organization, forces and a wide-ranging battle formation to create the combined strength of the people's armed forces in the area, contributing significantly to the army and people of the whole country defeating the 2 destructive wars of the American imperialists. Regardless of the fierceness of the war, Nghe An was the focus of the American imperialists' attacks. The Nghe An Armed Forces were still determined to maintain the traffic arteries, maintain the rear area, actively, comprehensively and maximally support human and material resources to the battlefields in a timely manner, protect and restore, develop the economy, stabilize people's lives, and excellently complete the strategic rear mission. It was the starting point of the legendary road "Ho Chi Minh Trail" with milestone zero in Lat town (now Tan Ky town), Tan Ky district. A rear base that directly and greatly contributed to “Splitting the Truong Son range to save the country, with hearts full of hope for the future”, a rear base where “Not a single pound of rice was missing, not a single soldier was missing”. Hundreds of village names, mountain names, river names, and thousands of people with golden hearts and jade hearts on Nghe An land have gone down in national history, creating legendary ferries, bridges, and traffic routes that fought and defeated the Americans, such as Cam Bridge, Ben Thuy ferry, Truong Bon…

During the two resistance wars against French colonialism and American imperialism, Nghe An province was the locality with the largest contribution of human resources and resources in the country, with more than 45 thousand martyrs sacrificed on the battlefields and tens of thousands of people with lifelong disabilities... At the end of the war, Nghe An province had 158 collectives and 73 individuals awarded the title of Hero of the People's Armed Forces by the State and thousands of collectives and individuals were awarded noble medals and orders.

During the period of comprehensive national renovation, Nghe An Armed Forces continue to promote the glorious tradition of the heroic Soviet homeland, resolutely maintaining national independence, the goals and path chosen by the Party, Uncle Ho and the people. Organize and build a strong and comprehensive provincial armed forces in the direction of revolution, discipline, elite, and gradual modernization. Proactively, creatively, flexibly, promptly and accurately advise and coordinate with forces, levels and sectors to thoroughly and decisively resolve all "hot spots", successfully preventing the plots of opposing and reactionary forces to take advantage of and cause disturbances in localities.

Building a strong, widespread militia and self-defense force with increasingly high quality and appropriate quantity; building a strong reserve force, trained, organized and managed closely, ensuring readiness to mobilize when ordered. However, in peacetime, the blood of officers and soldiers was shed to protect the happiness of the people. The example of sacrifice of Deputy Platoon Leader of the militia Va Tong Khu, a cadre who has been attached to the work of building the force and the activities of the border militia force of Ky Son district for nearly 20 years, has continued the glorious tradition of the militia and self-defense force in the new period.

Proactively and actively participate in natural disaster prevention, search and rescue, carry out emergency tasks to protect people's lives and property, overcome the consequences of natural disasters and epidemics with the spirit: "Saving people is the heart's command", "People's lives and property are above all, first", contributing to promoting the qualities and spreading the image of "Uncle Ho's soldiers" in the new situation.

It can be affirmed that in the past time, generations of cadres and soldiers of Nghe An province's armed forces have stood side by side with all classes of people in the area, always united in will and action, overcome difficulties, been proactive, creative, dared to think, dared to do, promoted emulation movements, successfully completed all assigned tasks, contributing to beautifying the image and noble qualities of "Uncle Ho's soldiers" in the new period.

With outstanding achievements in the renovation period, especially in the period (2014-2024), on October 10, 2024, the President of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam awarded the title of Hero of the People's Armed Forces for the second time to the Armed Forces of Nghe An province.

Currently, the Party and State's task of building and defending the Fatherland is facing new opportunities and fortunes, but also many difficulties and challenges. Hostile and reactionary forces continue to step up their activities to sabotage our country's revolution with new, sophisticated and insidious tricks; the development of the fourth industrial revolution has had and is having multi-dimensional impacts on all aspects of social life, including national defense and security. The task of defending the Fatherland and building a strong, compact and modern army is required.

Faced with that situation, the provincial armed forces need to promote their glorious traditions, continue to build a truly "Exemplary and exemplary" comprehensive and strong force, a sharp tool, a reliable political force of local Party committees, authorities and people; a core force to build and consolidate the all-people national defense posture associated with the people's security posture and build a solid provincial defense zone.

On the basis of thoroughly grasping the resolutions of the Military Region Party Committee and the Provincial Party Committee on national defense and security tasks, military agencies at all levels need to effectively advise Party committees and authorities, promote the work of consolidating and building the all-people national defense posture and people's war, and at the same time synchronously deploy the construction and consolidation of local army forces in the direction of "revolutionary, regular, elite, gradually modern", strong and widespread militia and self-defense forces, mobilized reserve forces in sufficient quantity and high quality, truly the core force, meeting the requirements of on-the-spot combat, protecting villages and hamlets, mobile combat in all directions, together with the entire population ready to defeat all enemy plots and tricks when war breaks out.

The officers and soldiers of the provincial armed forces always uphold the spirit of solidarity and responsibility, focus on performing well the political tasks, improve the overall quality and combat readiness, training, creating a comprehensive and solid progressive change. The annual training results have 100% of the content being good and excellent; the live-fire defense area drills at all levels are excellent and absolutely safe. They proactively participate in competitions and sports events at all levels and have won many high prizes. The officers and soldiers of the provincial armed forces always have absolute trust in the leadership of the Party, of the Party committees at all levels, the administration and management of the government, uphold the spirit of revolutionary vigilance, struggle, protect the ideological foundation, guidelines and policies of the Party, policies and laws of the State; preserve the cultural identity and traditions of the armed forces in Uncle Ho's homeland, help the people in the area, create solidarity and good attachment with the Party committees, government and people of the locality. Paying attention to and performing well the functions of the combat army and the working army, officers and soldiers of the provincial armed forces need to be proactive in developing plans and solutions to help people prevent and overcome the consequences of natural disasters, search and rescue; stepping up propaganda and mobilizing people to implement the Party's guidelines and policies, and the State's policies and laws.

Advise and coordinate with local Party committees and authorities to effectively carry out the "Repaying gratitude" activities and effectively implement Directive No. 42/CT-TTg dated November 9, 2024 on accelerating the elimination of temporary and dilapidated houses in the province; actively participate in building political bases, supporting and helping people develop production, eliminate hunger and reduce poverty, improve people's knowledge, especially in remote areas, ethnic minority areas; to contribute to building and firmly consolidating the "people's hearts" position, creating a foundation for successfully carrying out the task of building defense zones in the new situation. Focus on leading and directing the innovation of content and methods of propaganda, dissemination, legal education, raising awareness, self-consciousness of law observance and discipline for the armed forces. Strengthen measures to manage ideology, discipline, and social relationships of military personnel, reserve forces, militia, and self-defense forces. Do a good job of building and replicating advanced models; collectives and individuals with high achievements in implementing emulation movements.

Nghe An Armed Forces celebrates the 79th anniversary of its traditional day on the occasion of receiving the title of Hero of the People's Armed Forces for the second time in the atmosphere of the whole country competing to achieve the highest achievements. Welcoming the 80th anniversary of the founding of the Vietnam People's Army and the 35th anniversary of the National Defense Day, welcoming the Congresses at all levels towards the 14th National Congress of the Party. This is an opportunity for us to look back on the past journey, be proud of the tradition of the unit that has been twice Hero of the People's Armed Forces, thereby building new motivation and determination to promote the achieved results, excellently completing all assigned tasks, ensuring that the provincial Armed Forces are always worthy of being a trustworthy political force, an absolutely loyal fighting force, of the Party Committee, government and local people in the process of building the province into a fairly developed province of the whole country, with a fast and sustainable economic development, imbued with the cultural identity of Vietnam and Nghe An; is the center of the North Central region in terms of trade, logistics, healthcare, education and training, science and technology, industry, and high-tech agriculture, contributing to meeting the requirements of building and defending the Fatherland in the new situation.