Vietnam Navy Service Celebrates 20th Year of Foundation of DK1 and Receives the Second Grade Medal of National Defense

HTML clipboard     Addressing the ceremony, Lieutenant-general Tran Thanh Huyen, Vice Admiral and secretary of party committee of the Navy Service emphasized 5 key tasks that DK1 officials would determine on doing in the coming time, including: Foster the propaganda; Protect sea and island sovereignty; Highly qualify training; Keep struggling readiness; Protect and rescue fishers from danger; Promote the self-reliant rigorous spirit against difficulties; Continue to establish and strengthen the party organizations in each force.

    In the past 20 years, apart from its responsibilities for protection, research, storm forecast, DK1 battalion rescued tens of fishers’ ships in danger, did the first aid and saved lives of more than 500 fishers; opportunely prevented foreign ships from illegally entering the southern sea regions, and so forth.

L.H (Source: dongnainewspaper)