Firmly hold the ideological position

The democratic activity at the Engineering Battalion, Division 395 took place in an open and sincere atmosphere. At the beginning of the activity, Major Hoang Van Dong, Political Commissar of the Battalion, told the cadres and soldiers of the entire unit the story of "The Rice Jar to Save the Hunger". The story not only deeply penetrated the hearts of cadres and soldiers about Uncle Ho's heart and sacrifice for the people, but also ignited the flame of responsibility, mutual love and affection in the hearts of each cadre and soldier...

Major Hoang Van Dong shared: "The Battalion often carries out missions in remote areas with high levels of difficulty and hardship. Therefore, the Party Committee and Battalion Command pay great attention to building a solid ideological battlefield for officers and soldiers through new model measures and good practices such as the model "Historical stories about Uncle Ho" - to raise officers and soldiers' awareness of Uncle Ho's moral values, thereby encouraging officers and soldiers to follow Uncle Ho and excel in their studies and work".

Military Region 3 helps people build new countryside.

Division 395 is one of the main units of Military Region 3, tasked with training combat readiness and readiness to carry out missions. Meanwhile, the Division is located in a large area, with difficult roads, far from residential areas; many young cadres work far from their families... affecting the quality of mission results.

Colonel Le Hong Thang, Party Secretary and Political Commissar of Division 395, said: "The Party Committee and Command of Division 395 have identified that improving the political capacity of cadres and party members is a key step. The Party Committee and Command of the Division lead and direct the effective implementation of innovation, improving the quality of all aspects of Party and political activities; performing well in political and ideological education ; focusing on training and cultivating the political qualities of revolutionary soldiers. Focusing on promoting the exemplary role and responsibility of cadres at all levels in conjunction with the results of completing the unit's tasks and associating responsibility with the training and cultivation of subordinates under their authority. For example, young cadres who have just arrived at the Division to take up their duties are often stressed due to the high intensity of work. The Party Committee assigns tasks to superior cadres to regularly meet, encourage, and train them to help them improve their professional qualifications, especially their experience in management work, grasping grasp the thinking of the army. Thanks to that, young cadres quickly integrate and respond well to mission requirements."

Coming to the Northeastern border, we heard stories about the sense of responsibility, overcoming difficulties, and completing economic and defense tasks of Uncle Ho's soldiers of Economic - Defense Group 327, Military Region 3. Mr. Doong Chong Quay, a resident of Trinh Tuong residential area, Bac Cuong village, Hoanh Mo commune (Quang Ninh) confided: "The lives of people in Trinh Tuong residential area face many difficulties, there were times when we thought of leaving Trinh Tuong to live elsewhere. However, soldiers of Economic - Defense Group 327 came to share the difficulties, advise all levels to support road construction, water tanks, bring electricity to residential areas, build houses, and contract forest land for people to have a livelihood... From 7 households (in 2019), Trinh Tuong residential area has now grown to 17 households, people now have enough food and clothing, and are confident to stick to the border to build a more prosperous life".

The spirit and responsibility of Uncle Ho's soldiers, Economic - Defense Group 327, have contributed to building a strong Northeastern border. In recent years, the Group has mobilized nearly 1,900 households to move to the border to settle down and live; planted more than 5,000 hectares of new forests, handed over to localities, cared for and protected 7,028 hectares of border belt forests; organized hundreds of training courses, forestry extension, and vocational training for thousands of people on farming and livestock techniques; surveyed and deployed for 1,928 households to participate in poverty reduction projects and capital to support production and stabilize the population with a total budget of tens of billions of VND...

Colonel Nguyen Huy Phu, Party Secretary and Political Commissar of the 327th Economic - Defense Group, said: "The Party Committee and the Group's commanders regularly visit and encourage the officers and soldiers who are "staying close to the village, staying close to the people, staying close to the border". On the morning of the Lunar New Year 2025, on the morning of the 30th of Tet, I personally and Colonel Pham Khac Dung, Head of Group 327, organized a visit to 100% of the production teams, agencies and units on the border until after 20:00 to return to the unit. The trip helped us grasp the legitimate thoughts and aspirations of the officers and soldiers in the most difficult places of the Group, serving as a basis for advising the Party Committee to deploy radical solutions to help the officers and soldiers feel secure in their minds".

“Currently, many production teams of the Union are located in extremely difficult areas, without electricity, without water, far from concentrated residential areas... however, officers and soldiers have not enjoyed preferential and attractive policies, which also affects the ideology of officers and soldiers,” Colonel Nguyen Huy Phu confided.

At the Military Commands of Quang Ninh, Hai Duong, and Hung Yen provinces, ideological work has also been focused on and effectively implemented by the Party Committees and commanders of agencies and units. Specifically, democratic dialogue between the head of the Military Command with Party cells and officers and soldiers is carried out regularly and continuously. In addition to direct dialogue, agencies also collect opinions through survey forms including closed and open questions for each type of subject to grasp the situation at the grassroots level, to promptly have directions to resolve and respond to recommendations and opinions, contributing to maintaining the ideological position for officers and soldiers.

Major General Nguyen Duc Hung, Party Secretary and Political Commissar of Military Region 3, affirmed: "Building a strong political and ideological military force in the Military Region is determined by the Party Committee and Command of Military Region 3 to be the decisive factor in building a strong, comprehensive, "exemplary, typical" unit in each agency, unit and the entire Military Region. Therefore, the Party Committee and Command of the Military Region lead and direct the Party committees and commanders of agencies, units and schools to synchronously and closely carry out ideological, organizational, personnel and policy work; expand democracy, enhance dialogue and exchange...; promptly grasp and satisfactorily resolve the legitimate thoughts and aspirations of officers and soldiers. Focus on building a good, healthy and rich cultural environment; effectively promote the role of organizations, forces, agencies, units, families and localities in carrying out ideological work... Therefore, in any circumstances, officers and soldiers in the entire army are always steadfast and steadfast. "Gold, solidarity, unity, overcoming difficulties, completing well all assigned tasks".

Practice hard

Party committees and commanders at all levels, especially cadres directly in charge of management and training, must constantly follow up with troops, promptly detect and overcome distorted perceptions and manifestations of fear of difficulties and hardships in training. Training is one of the effective measures applied by Division 395 to improve training quality.

Colonel Nguyen Huy Toan, Division Commander of Division 395, shared: "In training, the Party Committee and Division Command pay great attention to the role of the cadres. Therefore, in cadre training, the Division has developed a new method: All cadres participating in training prepare lesson plans and are ready to give lectures, not selecting comrades with good capacity and methods but assigning weak comrades to practice teaching, then organizing commentary, giving comments, drawing experiences, unifying training content and methods, thereby improving knowledge, unifying organization, methods and working style for cadres. At the same time, the Division attaches importance to the work of checking and evaluating the actual training results, not chasing after achievements. Every year, the Division completes 100% of the training content and programs for the subjects; checking 100% of the content meets the requirements (from 80% to 85% are good and excellent)".

Officers and soldiers of Division 395, Military Region 3 practice training.

From 2017 to present, the Quang Ninh Provincial Military Command has been assigned the task of training new soldiers. In which, 2024 was chosen as a benchmark for the Ministry of National Defense in infantry combat training. In the 2020-2025 term, the inspection results show that more than 80% of the regular force is good and excellent; the reserve force and militia and self-defense force are over 70% good and excellent. In 2025, the unit won first prize at the Military Region-level New Soldier Sports Festival...

Lieutenant Colonel Nguyen Van Muoi, Deputy Chief of Staff of the Quang Ninh Provincial Military Command, said: "The task of training and combat readiness is a breakthrough that has been paid attention to by Party committees and commanders at all levels, with many specific measures such as: Strengthening training and fostering cadres at all levels; combining training with physical training; strengthening inspection and assessment, resolutely fighting against achievement disease. Proactively investing in building and repairing training grounds, training grounds, and renewing teaching aids... Thanks to that, the quality of training has been improved, contributing significantly to the results and achievements."

In carrying out the training task, the Party Committees and commanders of the agencies and units of the Military Region 3 have thoroughly grasped and effectively implemented the resolutions, directives and plans of the superiors on training and combat readiness; concretized them into plans, resolutions and thematic resolutions to lead combat training at their level. Therein, clearly defining the content and solutions for comprehensive leadership and direction, with focus and key points, with specific, appropriate goals, targets and tasks and drastic, synchronous measures, focusing on thoroughly overcoming weaknesses and weak points. At the same time, in training, the agencies and units have well implemented the motto of "basic, practical, solid", 3 viewpoints, 8 principles, 6 combinations; focused on innovating training methods; attaching importance to synchronous, in-depth training, close to combat reality; training to master weapons and technical equipment, especially new weapons and equipment; Combine training with physical training of soldiers. Improve the quality of training, comprehensive drills, joint military operations, and the quality of education and training in accordance with reality.

Major General Nguyen Duc Hung, Party Secretary and Political Commissar of Military Region 3, said: "In recent times, the Party Committee and Command of Military Region 3 have led and directed agencies and units to effectively implement the motto 'Training ground is attached to the battlefield', closely combining training with practice and drills. Directing units to improve the quality of training; modernizing the system of shooting ranges and training grounds; organizing well drills at all levels, especially joint drills and military and service coordination drills in military region and defense area defense drills; civil defense drills, timely and effective response to traditional and non-traditional security challenges; responding to super typhoons and search and rescue at all levels. Thanks to that, the overall quality and combat strength of agencies and units have been improved, contributing to building a comprehensively strong "exemplary and typical" Military Region 3; at the same time, performing well the core role in building a strong national defense, creating conditions for Local socio-economic development.

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