PANO – A meeting honouring outstanding people rendering good services and martyrs’ relatives in the cause of national border, sea and island protection was held on September 22nd in Nha Trang city, Khanh Hoa province.
Minister of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs Pham Thi Hai Chuyen presents merit certificates to the armed forces' delegates
Lieutenant General Dao Duy Minh, Deputy Director of the General Department of Politics, a member of the organizing board, said that the meeting demonstrated gratitude to people who rendered good services for the nation, encouraging them to bring the traditions of their families, the country, and the home town into full play in the cause of national construction and protection.
The Deputy Director stressed that in the coming time, units in the army would continue grasping thoroughly and carrying out well the Party and State’s policy on Vietnam Sea Strategy with a vision to 2020, cooperating with relevant organs to combine socio-economic development at border areas and on islands with ensuring defence-security and being ready to cope with any emerged circumstances at border areas and on islands.
Besides, army units would well implement the Party and State’s policies on army and army’s rear; pay much attention to cadres and troops who are protecting border areas, sea and islands; build gratitude houses for policy beneficiaries and generate jobs for children of martyrs, invalids and sick soldiers so that officers and troops could feel secure to fulfil their assigned missions.
Lieutenant General Dao Duy Minh talks with army delegates
Among 246 honoured delegates, there were 60 cadres, officers and non-commissioned officers, including war-invalids and children of martyrs from army units.
The oldest delegate was the Hero of People’s Armed Forces, Deputy Chief of the General Staff of the Vietnam People’s Army, Lieutenant General Nguyen Trung Thu, aged 60, and the youngest delegate was Tran Thi Thuy, a martyr’s daughter, working in Brigade 146 of the Navy.
The honoured were bright examples in either war time or peace time. They have surmounted difficulties and dared to devote their lives to complete assigned missions, protect the life and property of local people. Besides, they have always honed political virtue and improved quality of training and combat readiness.
| Lieutenant General Nguyen Trung Thu was born in Hoa Hai commune, Hoa Vang district, Da Nang city. At the age of 15 he was enlisted in reputed regular Division 2 of Military Zone 5. He was in various battlefields from Quang Nam, Quang Ngai to Front 4 of Quang Da, Front 579, Road 9 Front in Southern Laos, and was among Vietnamese Army volunteers in Cambodia battlefields. At each position, General Thu always considers him a soldier and confirms that his achievements and feats of arms belong to his comrades and local people. Talking about him, anyone could not forget the image of the commander of Military Zone 5 who directed troops and vehicles to control floods and save local people during storms in 2010. |
| Colonel Vu Van Sy, Deputy Headmaster cum Chief of Staff of the Air Force Officiers Training School, a 4th class war invalid, tried to land safely a MiG-21 in a training despite the aircraft’s fuel shortage and technical failure. |
| In September 2009, Lieutenant Colonel Nguyen Van My, head of Flotilla 2 of Quang Nam Provincial Border Guards, operated boat 09B with 5 other troops on board evacuating 16 workers and 8 people to a safer area to take refuge from Storm No.9. On December 30th, 2010, he and 8 other cadres and troops on board of BP 43-1302 towed ashore trawler QNa 2176, which was left adrift at sea, with fisherman Lam Xuan Ngoan at the whelm. Attentively, on November 11th, 2011, he directed the rescue for Phuong Nam Star boat containing 56,000 tons of oil on fire in Quang Nam province’s waters. Since December 2011, he has driven away more than 13 foreign trawlers violating Vietnam’s territorial waters in Quang Nam and Quang Ngai provinces. Lieutenant Colonel Nguyen Van My is a son of martyr Nguyen Nguyen, who died in 1974 on Quang Da Front. |
Translated by Mai Huong
Đăng ký: VietNam News
