General Nguyen Tan Cuong, Chief of the General Staff of the Vietnam People's Army and Deputy Minister of National Defense , has just signed and issued Circular 65/2025 of the Ministry of National Defense on amending and supplementing a number of articles of the circulars.
Specifically, amending and supplementing a number of articles of Circular 07/2016 of the Minister of National Defense regulating the conferment, promotion, and demotion of military ranks; appointment to positions, demotion, and dismissal; equivalent positions and the highest military ranks for positions of non-commissioned officers and soldiers of the Vietnam People's Army.
According to the new circular, the Commander of the Regional Defense Command decides to confer the rank of private on citizens who have registered to serve in the reserve force of the People's Army and have been arranged and appointed to reserve mobilization units.
The Commander of the Regional Defense Command decides to promote or demote to sergeant the rank of non-commissioned officers and soldiers who have registered to serve in the reserve force of the Vietnam People's Army and have been arranged and appointed to reserve mobilization units.
The Commander of the Regional Defense Command decides to appoint, demote, or dismiss squad leaders and equivalent positions for non-commissioned officers and reserve soldiers who have registered to serve in the reserve force and have been arranged and appointed to reserve mobilization units.
The Commander of the Provincial Military Command, the Commander of the Regional Defense Command, the Commander of the Commune Command, within their authority, shall preside over and coordinate with the receiving units, units under the ministries and branches with the task of building reserve specialized units with reserve soldiers registered for military service in the locality (if any) to organize the conferment, promotion, and demotion of military ranks and the appointment, demotion, and dismissal of non-commissioned officers and reserve soldiers.
Previously, according to Circular 07/2016, some of the above authorities belonged to the Commander of the Military Command of the district, county, town, or city under the province. After the dissolution of the District Military Command and the establishment of the Regional Defense Command, this authority was transferred to the Commander of the Regional Defense Command.
Before the province merger and the end of district-level operations, the country had 63 provincial and municipal military commands (except Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City which have their own characteristics). After the dissolution of 696 district-level military commands with 34 new provinces and cities, there were 145 regional defense commands, some provinces had only 3 but some provinces had up to 6 regional defense commands (suitable for each locality, area, population and military and defense requirements...).
New regulations on military recruitment
Circular 65 of the Ministry of National Defense also amends and supplements a number of articles of Circular No. 241/2017 on selection and recruitment of professional soldiers, workers and defense officials.
This Circular amends the criteria for military recruitment, which are to have political and moral qualities in accordance with the provisions of Circular No. 05/2019, Article 10 of Circular No. 263/2013 and have the capacity and responsibility to complete assigned tasks, be ready to fight and sacrifice to protect the Party, State, people and socialist regime, independence, sovereignty, territorial integrity, and national security.
Regarding health, must meet health standards of type 1, type 2, type 3 according to regulations in Circular 105/2023 regulating health standards and health examinations for subjects under the management of the Ministry of National Defense.
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