GDP, GS leaders pay Tet visits to academies, units

At the meeting with the National Defense Academy, General Vinh urged it to comprehensively embrace higher levels' resolutions and directives.

The academy should bring into play its tradition and achievements made in the past to deserve to be a leading research and education-training center in military and defense science and military strategy of the Vietnam People’s Army and the nation, and a cradle for training senior officials of the military and providing defense and security knowledge for key officials of provinces, cities, and central and local organs, General Vinh added.

The deputy defense minister hoped that the National Defense Academy will focus on building training objectives to improve military knowledge of trainees at the strategic level.

As Tet is around the corner, on behalf of the Central Military Commission and Ministry of National Defense, General Vinh wished officials, instructors, employees and soldiers of the academy to accomplish all assignments and the academy to be an exemplary and typical school of the entire military and country.

Visiting the Military Technical Academy, General Vinh hailed the school for its all-out efforts made last year and thorough preparation for a cozy Tet for its members.

Given the complicated developments of the COVID-19 pandemic, General Vinh asked the academy to ensure thoughtful Tet celebrations for its employees and troops, visit policy beneficiaries in a timely manner, promote fire-fighting, and closely work with local party committee and authorities to ensure safety during Tet.

The deputy defense minister wished the academy to complete all assigned duties, develop stronger, and build it to become a leading military scientific research center and a center for training military scientific and technical officials of the military and country.

The same day, Lieutenant General Ngo Minh Tien, Deputy Chief of the General Staff (GS), checked combat readiness and sent New Year wishes to troops of Engineering Brigade 249 of the Engineering Corps.

The deputy chief of the GS applauded the unit for its task accomplishments last year.

He asked the troops to strictly embrace higher levels' resolutions, directives, instructions on training, combat readiness work, State's laws, military discipline, apply advanced information technology to training and holding of exercises, combine mine clearance training and practice in an absolutely safe manner.

The unit was requested to intensify mass mobilization work according to COVID-19 prevention and control conditions, ensure logistic and technical services for training and combat readiness duties.

As the lunar New Year is drawing nearer, the GS deputy chief wished Brigade 249's troops health, cozy Tet celebrations with high sense of combat readiness, and success.

Translated by Mai Huong