Best implementation of preparations for defense zone drills

Implementing Directive No. 24 of the Provincial Party Standing Committee and Plan No. 23 of the Provincial People's Committee on organizing district-level defense area drills in 2019, the People's Committee of Quynh Luu district has developed a plan to organize district defense area drills and commune-level defense combat drills including 6 communes: Quynh Minh, Quynh Hong, Quynh Ngoc, Quynh Thuan, An Hoa and Tien Thuy.

Overview of the conference. Photo: Thanh Toan

Accordingly, the content of the exercise is to put the armed forces into a state of combat readiness, put the locality into a state of national defense, organize preparations and practice operations, and firmly protect the district defense area. The scale of the one-sided defense area exercise is at two levels: district level and commune level.

Of which, 3 communes Quynh Ngoc, Quynh Thuan and Tien Thuy participated in the exercise with the district. After completing the district-level defense area exercise, the communes of Quynh Hong, Quynh Minh and An Hoa organized a commune-level defense exercise. The content of the district-level defense combat exercise and the 3 communes of Quynh Ngoc, Quynh Thuan and Quynh Minh was flood and storm prevention - search and rescue; 2 communes of Quynh Hong and An Hoa fought the enemy to protect their villages and Quynh Minh fought the enemy landing by sea...

At the conference, the Steering Committee for the defense area exercise of Quynh Luu district deployed and assigned specific tasks to each force of the Military Command, Police, Quynh Thuan Border Guard Station, departments, branches, sectors of the district and participating communes to well perform the preparation work, build intentions, scenarios, and plans for the exercise according to the assigned tasks. Agencies, units, and localities focused on good preparation in terms of finance, logistics, technology, security, order, and traffic safety during the live exercise. The time for the defense area exercise of the district is expected to take place from July 30 to August 1, 2019.

Quynh Luu practices mobilizing human resources and ships in 2017. Photo: Thanh Toan

Speaking at the conference, comrade Hoang Van Bo - Deputy Secretary, Chairman of the People's Committee of Quynh Luu district emphasized that the task of conducting combat drills in the district and commune defense zones is of special importance in order to improve the level and capacity of leadership and direction of Party committees and management and administration of authorities at all levels in organizing and deploying national defense status, and transferring localities to wartime operations.

Therefore, comrades in the steering committee, departments, offices and localities need to promote the highest sense of responsibility, actively do a good job of preparing so that the exercise can achieve the set goals and requirements, ensuring the safety of people and vehicles participating.