One day in late October, in the chilly, drizzly weather, we visited the Reconnaissance Battalion, the main unit in carrying out the A2 mission and other sudden missions of the Hanoi Capital Command. To carry out the assigned tasks, the Battalion always maintains serious, disciplined, and specialized training, ensuring that the troops are proficient in specialized reconnaissance techniques and tactics, especially good at shooting, martial arts, swimming, and proficient in using the weapons and equipment in the establishment; ready to maneuver to carry out missions in all situations, fighting well both day and night.

Martial arts competition at the Reconnaissance Battalion, Hanoi Capital Command.

That requires the unit's officers and soldiers to have a good physical foundation, meeting all three criteria of "fast-strong-durable". Realizing this, the physical training movement in the Battalion was enthusiastically responded by the troops. We witnessed that, at the eighth hour, everywhere in the Battalion, officers and soldiers were participating in chin-ups, parallel bar push-ups, weightlifting, football, volleyball, martial arts, swimming competitions...

Lieutenant Nguyen Trong Tan, Squad Leader of Squad 4, Special Reconnaissance Company 2, confided: “The squad always thoroughly grasps the Battalion’s plan to build a good physical training unit. Through the entrance test, basically all soldiers know how to swim, but can only swim short distances or only know how to swim freely, and swimming techniques are limited. Therefore, we determined to make a breakthrough in improving the quality of swimming training for soldiers. This is the content to ensure the task of practicing the comprehensive round, as well as performing reconnaissance and combat tasks later.”

To successfully implement the above content, the unit has done a good job of preparing human resources, lesson plans, and training materials. The training process closely combines theory and practice, organizing training segments on land first, then in water, and officers always closely follow the soldiers during the training process. After each training session, the results are checked and evaluated, and solutions are found to train weak comrades. With synchronous and drastic solutions, up to now, 100% of the soldiers in the squad know how to swim breaststroke properly and can swim long distances. The test results of many comrades are quite good and excellent, and the soldiers' physical strength meets the requirements of training, work, and implementation of assigned political tasks.

In order for the work of building a model unit to be practically effective and spread throughout the unit, the Party Committee and the Battalion Commander have thoroughly grasped and seriously implemented the plan of the Hanoi Capital Command on building a comprehensively strong model unit that is "exemplary and typical" and a good physical training unit by 2025. On that basis, the Battalion has built a scientific plan and seriously organized its implementation.

Breaststroke swimming training at the Reconnaissance Battalion, Hanoi Capital Command.

Major Lam Xuan Dat, Deputy Battalion Commander of the Reconnaissance Battalion, shared: “We have learned many lessons in implementing the development of a model unit for good physical training. First of all, Party committees and commanders at all levels must pay attention, lead, direct, and develop a scientific physical training plan, close to the target, in accordance with regulations and procedures. The training process must classify and group the target to avoid overtraining the troops and overcome formalism. In particular, physical training must be linked with emulation movements, competitions, sports festivals, and sports tournaments, and constantly promote the physical training movement in the unit...”.

The results achieved in good physical training have significantly contributed to the Reconnaissance Battalion's successful completion of assigned tasks, especially training tasks. The unit's 2025 training test results show that 100% of the subjects met the requirements, with the good and excellent rates accounting for more than 85%"./.

    Source: https://www.qdnd.vn/quoc-phong-an-ninh/xay-dung-quan-doi/huan-luyen-the-luc-gioi-o-tieu-doan-trinh-sat-997331