New soldiers of Regiment 582, Division 350 check their weapons before training.

Arriving at Regiment 582 (Division 350, Military Region 3), we were introduced to the unit's activities by Lieutenant Colonel Nguyen Ba Hoan, Deputy Regiment Commander, Chief of Staff of Regiment 582.

"From March 2025, along with receiving and organizing training for new soldiers, the Regiment also received and trained nearly 150 reserve officers and soldiers. Thanks to thorough training, regular training of core officers and good preparation of training facilities, ensuring the soldiers' lives, the training results of new soldiers were in accordance with the content, program, and training progress; live-fire shooting at targets No. 4 and No. 7 achieved good results. The reserve force was organized into the framework of Battalion 3, the soldiers strictly followed discipline, ensuring absolute safety during training...", Lieutenant Colonel Nguyen Ba Hoan informed.

Then Mr. Hoan led us to the training ground to visit the officers and soldiers being trained.

Squad leader Pham Hoang Thai checks his gun before commanding the squad.
Squad leader Pham Hoang Thai maintains squad formation.

Observing Sergeant Pham Hoang Thai, Squad Leader of Squad 10, Platoon 8, Company 2, Battalion 2 (Regiment 582), leading the squad to practice infantry combat techniques for new soldiers, we realized that the soldiers basically grasped the movements and essentials of combat techniques. That was the result of days of hard training with the determination to achieve high quality right from the first week and month of training.

Accompanying us, Lieutenant Colonel Pham Van Han, Political Commissar of Division 350, said: In 2025, along with training reserve forces and new soldiers, Division 350 was assigned by the Military Region 3 Command to carry out the task of training squad leaders and building works to celebrate the 80th anniversary of the Armed Forces of Military Region 3. From 2021, the Division was assigned the task of training new soldiers. In the first year, the quality of training was still limited. However, the Party Committee and the Division Command focused on leading, directing, overcoming weaknesses, and gradually "rejuvenating" the training framework for new soldiers, so by 2024, the sports festival for new soldier training units in the entire Military Region 3 and the Division achieved high results. The shooting, grenade throwing, explosive wrapping, and physical fitness events of the unit all achieved good and excellent results. Lieutenant Doan Minh Hieu, Platoon Leader (now Deputy Commander of Company 2, Battalion 2, Regiment 582) won second prize in the army in the K54 shooting event.

Regarding the training of the reserve mobilization force, the Division has done a good job of checking and grasping the source of reserve soldiers, reaching 97.89% of the number of troops; arranging the correct and approximate military professionalism reaching nearly 90%... The Command inspected the training and drills of the reserve mobilization force with high results. Currently, the Division is actively preparing all aspects of the staff, training and fostering the training framework cadres, ensuring the training of squad leaders in 2025 achieves the highest results.

New soldiers of Squad 10 practice infantry combat techniques.

Division 350 has a proud tradition, established on September 21, 1954 with the mission of participating in taking over and protecting the capital Hanoi, the Party Central Committee and Uncle Ho. The Division was honored to have Uncle Ho visit and encourage it 5 times, and present the Division with the 6 traditional golden words: "Solidarity - Loyalty - Determination to Win".

During the years in the Hai Phong Command, officers and soldiers of Division 350 fought bravely, shooting down many American planes and warships that violated the skies and waters of Hai Phong; destroying thousands of enemy bombs and mines that blockaded the Hai Phong sea route. With particularly outstanding achievements, Division 350 and many collectives and individuals of the Division such as Regiment 50 (now under the Hai Phong City Military Command), Battalion 14 and martyr Pham Minh Duc were awarded the title of Hero of the People's Armed Forces by the Party and State.

"Continuing the heroic tradition, the officers and soldiers of the Division continue to strive to complete the assigned tasks well. First of all, the entire Division competes to achieve the highest achievements to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Liberation of the South and National Reunification; to welcome the Party Congress of Military Region 3, to welcome the 80th anniversary of the Traditional Day of the Military Region 3 Armed Forces (October 31, 1945 / October 31, 2025) and the Party Congress of Division 350, term 2025-2030", Colonel Ngo Xuan Van, Deputy Division Commander of Division 350 affirmed to us.

Article and photos: HUONG HONG THU

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