Adding more color to the image and noble qualities of "Uncle Ho's soldiers" in the new era
Nghe An armed forces were born from the patriotic and revolutionary tradition in the Soviet homeland of Nghe Tinh, continuing the tradition of the "Red Self-Defense" and "Red Red Guard" soldiers. Over the past 80 years, Nghe An armed forces have overcome many difficulties and hardships, making great contributions to the resistance wars and defending the Fatherland.
Colonel NGUYEN VAN AN-Permanent Deputy Secretary of the Party Committee, Political Commissar of Nghe An Provincial Military Command
Technique:Hong Toai •17/08/2025
Over 80 years (August 21, 1945 - August 21, 2025) 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 thousand outstanding children of Nghe An volunteered to join the Army, providing additional support to the front line, directly contributing to the construction of the first main units 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. Coordinating with the main force to serve combat and fight on the battlefields. Mobilizing and contributing more than 100,000 tons of food and provisions to the front lines. Nghe An armed forces are the core force leading the charge on the front line to eradicate hunger and illiteracy and are a reliable force in the land revolution in the countryside.
At the end of the resistance war against French colonialism, Nghe An had 96 units and individuals with outstanding achievements that were commended by the State and Government, including 8 officers and soldiers who were awarded the title of Hero of the People's Armed Forces by the State.
During the 20 years of resistance against the 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, 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 number zero in Lat town (now Tan Ky commune). 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 ferry terminals, bridges, and legendary traffic routes that fought and defeated the Americans, such as Cam Bridge, Ben Thuy ferry, Truong Bon…
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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 45,000 martyrs sacrificing on the battlefields and tens of thousands of people suffering from lifelong disabilities...
At the end of the war, Nghe An province had 158 groups and 73 individuals awarded the title of People's Armed Forces Hero by the State and thousands of groups and individuals were awarded noble medals and orders.
1.With its outstanding achievements, the Nghe An Armed Forces have been awarded many noble titles by the Party, the State and the Army. In particular, on November 6, 1978, the President conferred the title of Hero of the People's Armed Forces on the People and Armed Forces of Nghe An province for their outstanding achievements in the resistance war against the US to save the country.
2.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..
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.
Build a strong, widespread militia and self-defense force with increasingly high quality and appropriate quantity; build a strong reserve force, trained, organized and managed closely, ensuring readiness to mobilize when ordered. Proactively and actively participate in natural disaster prevention, search and rescue, carry out emergency tasks to protect the safety of 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 and foremost".
It can be affirmed that over 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.
In the coming time, the political and economic situation in the world, the region and the country is forecast to continue to have rapid changes, complex and unpredictable developments; along with that, hostile forces, reactionaries, and bad elements continue to increase their sabotage activities. The country is entering a new historical period, a new era - the era of national development, deep international integration, bringing many opportunities for development, while also posing many risks and challenges to the work of ensuring national defense and security.
Faced with that requirement and situation, to ensure economic development associated with firmly ensuring national defense, security and sovereignty over borders, islands, maintaining political security, social order and safety in the spirit of Resolution No. 39-NQ/TW, dated July 18, 2023 of the Politburo "on building and developing Nghe An province to 2030, with a vision to 2045", the province's armed forces continue to promote the tradition of being awarded the title of Hero of the People's Armed Forces twice, solidarity, unity, joint efforts, consensus, making the most of opportunities and advantages, overcoming difficulties and challenges, pushing back risks, promoting the core role, maintaining political stability, creating a favorable environment for socio-economic development, in which the following key tasks are well performed:
Continue to thoroughly grasp and flexibly and creatively apply the Resolution of the 8th Central Committee (13th tenure) "on the Strategy for protecting the Fatherland in the new situation" into practice to build the armed forces of Nghe An province to be increasingly strong in all aspects, with a high spirit of revolutionary vigilance, steadfast political will, ready to fight, not to be passive or surprised in any situation; always be the core force in building the all-people national defense; maintain political security and social order and safety in the area.
Strengthening national defense and security, building a national defense posture associated with people's security posture and people's hearts posture; building a strong national defense posture, promoting the responsibility of Party committees, authorities, cadres, Party members and people of all walks of life in performing the task of building and protecting the Fatherland.
Continuously improve the quality and comprehensive combat strength of the armed forces; build a "Elite, compact, strong" standing force, a "Strong, widespread, and solid" militia and reserve force with reasonable numbers and high quality. Innovate and improve the quality of training and exercises close to the actual situation to increase combat capability and combat strength. Strengthen political and ideological education, build, train and coach officers and soldiers with steadfast political will, strictly abide by military discipline, maintain the qualities of "Uncle Ho's soldiers", ready to receive and excellently complete assigned tasks.
Continue to implement the Army's rear policy well, take care of the material and spiritual life of war invalids, martyrs' families, and families with meritorious services to the revolution. Ensure logistics, technical and financial work to promptly serve the activities of the provincial armed forces, meeting the requirements of military and defense tasks in the new situation.
Nghe An Armed Forces celebrates 80 years of tradition in the atmosphere of the whole country competing to achieve the highest achievements to celebrate the 80th anniversary of the National Day of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam (September 2, 1945 - September 2, 2025). 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 the Hero of the People's Armed Forces, thereby building new motivation and determination to promote the achieved results, excellently complete all assigned tasks, "complete every task, overcome every difficulty, defeat every enemy", worthy of the trust of the Party Committee, Government and people of all ethnic groups in the province, further embellishing the glorious tradition of the heroic Vietnam People's Army.
