Taking us to visit some of the unit's training models, Lieutenant Colonel Vu Xuan Loi, Political Commissar of TTG Brigade 405, said that over the years, TTG Brigade 405 has always been one of the agencies and units of Military Region 3 leading the "Skillful Civil Affairs" emulation movement, and has been recognized by superiors for many consecutive years as a "Good Civil Affairs Unit".

To achieve the above results, the unit always closely coordinates with local Party committees, authorities, departments, branches and organizations to promote and improve the effectiveness of propaganda and mobilization work for the people. Through outdoor training combined with mass mobilization work, the unit enhances exchange and twinning activities, helping people develop the economy , eliminate hunger and reduce poverty.

The 405th Armored Brigade (Military Region 3) coordinated with Bac Son village, Binh Khe ward, Dong Trieu town (now Binh Khe ward), Quang Ninh province to organize a cultural exchange during the 2023 field trip to do mass mobilization work. Photo provided by the unit

Over the past 5 years, the unit has effectively implemented local movements and campaigns, such as: "The Army joins hands to build new rural areas"; "Building a good, healthy and rich cultural environment in the Army"; "The whole people unite to build a cultural life"...

From 2020 to present, the unit has organized soldiers to help people with more than 6,000 working days, build new 1.5km of concrete road, renovate 69.2km of inter-village road, dredge 7km of irrigation ditches, solidly build 350m of intra-field ditches, build a new concrete bridge, 500m of surrounding wall, 1 outdoor stage... In addition, the unit also donated and supported funds with an amount of 1 billion 237 million VND.

The 405th Armored Brigade (Military Region 3) helps people in Linh Trang village, Binh Khe ward, Dong Trieu town (now Binh Khe ward), Quang Ninh province to expand village roads according to new rural construction criteria, 2020. Photo provided by the unit

To achieve the above results, according to Lieutenant Colonel Vu Ngoc Trieu, Deputy Political Commissar of TTG Brigade 405, every year, the unit proactively selects cadres and soldiers to participate in training and fostering methods and styles for conducting mass mobilization work, especially for Party Committee members in charge of mass mobilization working groups; actively exchanges experiences, good practices, and effective models between agencies and units; seriously conducts preliminary and final reviews; promptly commends and rewards collectives and individuals with outstanding achievements in implementing the movement.

During the training trips combined with mass mobilization work, the unit regularly organizes cultural, physical education and sports exchanges with agencies, units and sister schools, in order to strengthen the solidarity and connection between the unit and the Party Committee, government and people in the area. The unit's grassroots youth union has closely coordinated with the local youth union, well organizing activities such as: Cultural and artistic exchanges, "Lighting candles in gratitude" at martyrs' cemeteries, giving gifts to families with meritorious services, etc.

The 405th Armored Brigade coordinated with the Youth Union of Binh Khe Ward, Dong Trieu Town (now Binh Khe Ward), Quang Ninh Province to paint murals on the wall surrounding the Cultural House of Trai Thu Village, 2021. Photo provided by the unit

In addition, the unit is ready to mobilize forces and means to participate in natural disaster prevention and control, search and rescue in all situations to protect people's lives and property. Typically, when storm No. 3 (Yagi) occurred in September 2024, the unit mobilized more than 1,000 working days and nearly 100 vehicles of all kinds to help people in Uong Bi city, Dong Trieu town (Quang Ninh) and Kinh Mon town (formerly Hai Duong) clean up, evacuate houses, pack sandbags, build soil to prevent dike overflow and overcome the consequences after the storm.

Mr. Tran Van Thien, Party Cell Secretary, Head of Nam Giai Village, Trang Luong Commune, Dong Trieu City (now Binh Khe Ward), Quang Ninh Province, emotionally shared: At the end of 2022, officers and soldiers of TTG Brigade 405 helped the locality renovate the intra-field ditch in Nam Giai Village, about 140m long. Previously, during the rainy season, this ditch section was often blocked and flooded, negatively affecting the people's crop cultivation. Due to lack of human resources and funding, the locality has not been able to completely overcome this situation. After 10 days of urgent and continuous work, the unit built a new solid ditch system, with a concrete cover, ensuring good quality and completing it ahead of schedule. The people of Nam Giai Village are very grateful to the TTG 405 soldiers".

The 405th Armored Brigade inaugurated a Comrades' House for soldiers in difficult circumstances in the unit, 2020. Photo provided by the unit

To promote mass mobilization work well in the coming time, according to Senior Lieutenant Colonel Vu Ngoc Trieu, the unit continues to proactively propose contents and measures to carry out mass mobilization work that are close to the requirements and tasks of the agency and unit and have high feasibility; at the same time, promote the role of mass organizations, actively participate in exchange and twinning activities, contributing to the successful implementation of the unit's mass mobilization work tasks.

In addition, the unit proactively coordinates with local Party committees, authorities and organizations, actively responds to campaigns to support charity funds; propagates and mobilizes people and ethnic minorities to abandon manual and ineffective farming practices and gradually change their thinking on agricultural and forestry production towards commodity production, associated with accelerating the process of building new rural areas... "Through mass mobilization work, the Brigade has discovered and replicated models and typical examples in the unit's Emulation Movements to Win, associated with the Emulation Movements "Skillful Mass Mobilization" and "The Army joins hands to build new rural areas", affirmed Lieutenant Colonel Vu Ngoc Trieu.

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    Source: https://www.qdnd.vn/nuoi-duong-van-hoa-bo-doi-cu-ho/lu-doan-tang-thiet-giap-405-quan-khu-3-dan-van-kheo-thiet-thuc-hieu-qua-nghia-tinh-841170