Although still young (born in 1997), up to now, Hoang Minh Duc has had a rather "thick" record of achievements with two consecutive years (2023, 2024) achieving the title of Emulation Fighter at the grassroots level; in 2024, he was awarded a Certificate of Merit by the Director of the General Department of Politics for his outstanding achievements in Youth Union activities and youth movements (2017-2024 period); and was awarded the title of Outstanding Youth Union Cadre by the Central Committee of the Ho Chi Minh Communist Youth Union for the period 2019-2024. In addition, Duc is also a Typical Young Face of the Military Region 1 in 2024 and has many achievements in training and performing other tasks.

Lieutenant Hoang Minh Duc.

To achieve such a proud record of achievements is the whole process of continuous efforts, striving, dedication and creativity of the young officer. In his position as Deputy Secretary of the Youth Union, Senior Lieutenant Hoang Minh Duc always thinks, worries, tries to grasp the opinions of the Party Committee, unit commanders, and discusses with comrades in the executive committee to find ways to attract and gather the strength of the Regiment's youth in movements and activities. At the same time, he designs and creates playgrounds to help union members, young people, especially young soldiers, to integrate, confidently affirm and demonstrate their abilities in the new environment. With a spirit of learning and eagerness to learn, Hoang Minh Duc took advantage of his time to go online to study, refer to effective, practical and useful models of union activities on the mass media, then convey and guide the branches to implement them.

Along with that, Hoang Minh Duc proactively reported to the Party Committee and unit commander to allow coordination with the local youth union to organize exchange and twinning activities, jointly deploy many exciting and practical activities such as activities responding to Youth Month, Summer Youth Volunteer Campaign, voluntary blood donation activities, "Volunteer Saturday", "Green Sunday", "Semester in the Army"... With the agreement of the unit commander, Duc also organized for union members and youth to deploy many volunteer activities to help the local government and people repair and upgrade rural roads, dredge intra-field canals and infrastructure construction activities, social security; build, repair, upgrade activity and entertainment spots for youth and children in the stationed area. Recently, Senior Lieutenant Hoang Minh Duc has mobilized the unit's youth union members to coordinate with local youth organizations to repair and upgrade the cultural and sports area, adding more than 100 stone benches, whitewashing more than 30,000m2 of houses and walls, planting more than 20,000 new flowers; repairing the rockery and youth area with a total value of more than 100 million VND.

Not only is he active and enthusiastic about the Youth Union and youth movements, Senior Lieutenant Hoang Minh Duc also actively participates in competitions and sports events organized by his unit and superiors. In 2024, he participated in and won the national C prize in the contest to learn about the 70th anniversary of the Dien Bien Phu Victory and the 70th anniversary of the Geneva Agreement; the team led by Duc participated in the 2024 Division-level Young Propaganda Competition and won first prize...

Article and photos: KHANH TU

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