Military, police forces join first rehearsal for 80th National Day celebration
The rehearsal comprised two main segments featuring a formation of 18 standing blocks and 43 marching ones, including seven female military units covering military music, medical officers, Vietnamese peacekeepers, special forces, communications soldiers, ethnic militia, and southern guerrillas, alongside two female police units representing traffic police officers and special task force personnel.
Special task force personnel at the joint rehearsal on July 17 (Photo: VNA)
Hanoi (VNA) – Vietnam’s military and police forces conducted a comprehensive joint rehearsal at National Military Training Centre No. 4 in Hanoi on July 17 in preparation for the grand celebration marking the 80th anniversary of the August Revolution (August 19) and National Day (September 2).
General Nguyen Tan Cuong, Chief of the General Staff of the Vietnam People's Army and Deputy Minister of National Defence, presided over the event.
The rehearsal comprised two main segments featuring a formation of 18 standing blocks and 43 marching ones, including seven female military units covering military music, medical officers, Vietnamese peacekeepers, special forces, communications soldiers, ethnic militia, and southern guerrillas, alongside two female police units representing traffic police officers and special task force personnel.
Notably, after 40 years of absence, the military artillery tractors and specialised police vehicles will parade through the historic Ba Dinh Square, demonstrating the growth and strength of the people’s armed forces under the Party’s leadership over 🎐the past decades.
General Nguyen Tan Cuong (second from left) presides over the event. (Photo: VNA)
Following the completion of basic training at their respective units, forces have been mobilised to concentrated training centres since June 5.
At the event, Cuong praised the forces’ responsibility and concerted efforts during the intense training period, particularly given the harsh weather conditions.
Stressing that the upcoming parade represents an opportunity to demonstrate the unity and strength of the nation, he noted that it will be held with a larger scale, more extensive formations as compared to the previous ones commemorating the 70th anniversary of the Dien Bien Phu Victory and 50th anniversary of the Liberation of the South and National Reunification.
With only one-and-a-half months to the celebration, he ordered competent forces to concentrate with the highest responsibility and efforts to ensure that the parade will be befitted the significance of the event.
He also called on relevant sides to effectively carry out combat readiness plans while assuring safety for the commemoration as well as logistics work and technical support for forces participating in the parade./.
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