The title “Hero of the People’s Armed Forces” is not only a noble award from the Party, State and People for Region 4, but also a recognition of the exceptionally outstanding achievements of generations of officers and soldiers of Naval Region 4 in the cause of protecting the sacred sovereignty of the sea and islands of the Fatherland.
Immediately after the country was unified, the country was united, and in response to the urgent need to protect the sovereignty of the sea and islands in the new situation, on October 26, 1975, Coastal Region 4 was established - now Naval Region 4. The region was assigned the task of managing and protecting a sea area of over 360,000 km2, from Cu Lao Xanh (Binh Dinh) to Mui Ba Kiem (Binh Thuan), including the Truong Sa archipelago - a place with a particularly important strategic position in terms of politics, economy, national defense and security of the country.
After nearly 50 years of building, fighting and growing up, right from the first days of its establishment, officers and soldiers of Naval Region 4 have overcome all difficulties and hardships to excellently complete their assigned tasks. The region organized and firmly protected the sovereignty of the islands and island points of the Truong Sa archipelago; participated in and excellently completed the noble international mission in Cambodia, and was the core force in the historic CQ-88 campaign.
In recent years, officers and soldiers of Naval Region 4 have thoroughly grasped the resolutions, guidelines, and policies of the Party and State, and the directives and orders of the Central Military Commission, the Ministry of National Defense, and the Navy Party Committee and Command. The entire Region has strictly maintained the duty regime, ensuring that forces and means are always at the highest state of combat readiness. Organizing observation and reconnaissance to detect more than 5 million targets in the air and at sea, advising and directly handling situations at sea well to avoid being passive and surprised, maintaining sovereignty and a peaceful environment at sea.
In particular, in the face of the complicated developments of the situation at sea, thousands of officers and soldiers were mobilized to key, difficult and arduous areas. However, officers and soldiers of Region 4 always showed their resilience and iron determination, ready to receive and complete all assigned tasks.
In response to the requirement of building Naval Region 4 straight towards modernity, in recent years, agencies and units in the entire Region have continuously innovated comprehensively, completing training and drill tasks exceptionally well, contributing to improving the overall quality, level, combat readiness and combat strength of the forces. The entire Region has closely followed the training motto of "basic, practical, solid", focusing on synchronous and in-depth training; closely following the plan, combat objects, battlefields, organization, organization and weapons and equipment; taking the task of firmly protecting the sovereignty of the sea and islands and building a revolutionary, disciplined, elite and modern Region as the training goal.
With a spirit of learning and eagerness to learn, officers and soldiers of the units quickly mastered and effectively exploited many modern weapons and technical equipment, meeting the requirements of the mission. Excellently completing new and difficult training contents and subjects. At the same time, the Region increased night training, training in complex weather conditions; training and confrontation exercises; successfully organized the firing of missiles equipped on combat ships, shore missiles, and new weapons in the establishment.
Through major exercises organized by the Ministry of National Defense and the Navy, the forces of the Region have clearly affirmed their mettle, intelligence, level of combat coordination, and complete mastery of new and modern weapons and equipment, meeting the requirements of the task of protecting the sovereignty of the sea and the Fatherland in the new situation.
Implementing the motto "Rescuing the people is a combat mission in peacetime, an order from the heart of a soldier"; every officer and soldier of Naval Region 4 always thoroughly grasps and well implements the guiding ideology: "When the people need, when the people are in trouble, there are Navy soldiers." The Region always considers the task of protecting the lives and property of the people as the most important task, a sacred and noble responsibility. Regardless of storms, rough waves or harsh, dangerous conditions at sea, whenever fishermen are in distress, the forces and means of Region 4 quickly depart, mobilize and arrive promptly to rescue fishermen. In addition, the Region continues to effectively implement many programs and creative ways to contribute to building a "people's heart position", a people's war position at sea. Specifically, the program "Vietnam Navy as a fulcrum for fishermen to go offshore, stick to the sea", "Navy sponsors fishermen's children"
In the past 10 years alone, Naval Region 4 has conducted more than 650 search and rescue missions; provided first aid and treatment to over 6,000 fishermen; rescued over 200 fishing boats in distress to safety; mobilized tens of thousands of officers, soldiers and hundreds of vehicles of all kinds to support local people in preventing and overcoming the consequences of natural disasters. Each island, island point, and each ship of Naval Region 4 is truly a strong support and belief for fishermen to go offshore.
Along with the rescue mission, officers and soldiers of Region 4 also actively participate in mass mobilization activities, build close relationships with the locality; promptly support socio-economic development programs, hunger eradication and poverty reduction, new rural construction; organize medical examination and treatment, provide free medicine, visit and give gifts to policy families, people in difficult circumstances with a total support value of up to tens of billions of VND.
The images of officers and soldiers of Naval Region 4 overcoming big waves and strong winds to save people, wholeheartedly accompanying the development of the locality where they are stationed have left many good feelings and impressions. These efforts continue to deepen the image of "Uncle Ho's soldiers - Navy soldiers" in the new era in the hearts of the people.
On January 7, 2025, the unit will be honored to receive the noble title of Hero of the People's Armed Forces. According to Rear Admiral Nguyen Anh Tuan, Commander of Naval Region 4, this noble award is a great source of encouragement and motivation for officers and soldiers in the entire Region to continue to strive to fulfill all tasks assigned by the Party, State and People.
Talking to us, Lieutenant Colonel Bui Xuan Binh, Party Secretary and Political Commissar of Naval Region 4, shared that he is proud of the past journey. Today's generation of officers and soldiers of Naval Region 4 vow to follow in their fathers' footsteps; be absolutely loyal to the Party, the Fatherland and the People, unite as one, strive to overcome difficulties, and are determined to build a truly "revolutionary, disciplined, elite and modern" Region, firmly protecting the sacred sovereignty of the sea, islands and continental shelf of the Fatherland; worthy of the noble title "Hero of the People's Armed Forces" that the Party, State and People have bestowed upon them.
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