The process of building, fighting and growing up of the Regiment is a vivid demonstration of the strength of our Party's policy of national defense and people's war, while at the same time enhancing the noble qualities of Uncle Ho's soldiers in the new era.

Fight tenaciously, achieve many glorious feats

Regiment 3 (formerly Regiment 29) was established on May 13, 1965 in Van Trach commune, Bo Trach district, Quang Binh province.

Immediately after its establishment, the unit was assigned to participate in combat in the Laos battlefield. In extremely difficult conditions, rugged terrain, lack of logistics, and harsh climate, the officers and soldiers of the Regiment upheld the spirit of proletarian internationalism, quickly stabilized the organization, entered combat, and achieved many outstanding results. The Regiment made an important contribution to liberating most of Savannakhet, consolidating the revolutionary government, and building the Lao People's Armed Forces (LLVT) to become increasingly mature and strong.

Regiment 3 participated in the battle and won the A Bia battle in 1969.

According to the requirements of the resistance mission, in June 1966, the Regiment was ordered to march back to the country and was assigned to Division 325C.

The unit continued to make achievements on the Tri-Thien Front. The regiment directly participated in many major campaigns such as Route 9 - Khe Sanh, the General Offensive and Uprising of Mau Than 1968.

Regiment 3 was honored to be awarded the title Hero of the People's Armed Forces by the Party and State.

With its outstanding achievements, in September 1973, the Regiment was honored by the Party and State with the title of Hero of the People's Armed Forces and named after the Thuan Hoa Regiment. That title was not only a noble reward, but also a source of encouragement and motivation for the officers and soldiers of the Regiment to overcome all difficulties and challenges, continuing to make great achievements in Dac Pet, Thuong Duc and the Tri - Thien Campaign.

Complete international missions, build strong units

After the Great Victory in Spring 1975, Regiment 3 was assigned the task of assisting Laos in the protection and construction of the country. In strategic locations such as Phou Bia and Saysomboun, the Regiment effectively coordinated with friendly forces, making an important contribution to maintaining political security, protecting the revolutionary government and consolidating the special friendship between Vietnam and Laos.

Regiment 3 held the 2025 training launch ceremony.

After completing the international mission, the Regiment continued its journey of building in peacetime. The Regiment constantly promoted its heroic tradition, proactively overcame difficulties, and built a strong and comprehensive unit. The unit focused on doing well the work of political and ideologicaleducation , discipline management, improving the quality of training, and building a regular order, considering this a central and regular task. In any circumstance, the officers and soldiers demonstrated a high spirit of revolutionary vigilance, steadfast political will, the will to overcome difficulties, and deep internal solidarity.

Faced with new requirements and tasks, officers and soldiers of Regiment 3 continue to promote the glorious tradition, noble qualities of Uncle Ho's soldiers, proactive and creative spirit, and successfully complete all assigned tasks. The focus is to thoroughly grasp and strictly implement resolutions and directives of the Party, Central Military Commission, Ministry of National Defense and Military Region 4, especially Resolution No. 1659-NQ/QUTW dated December 20, 2022 of the Central Military Commission on improving training quality in the 2023-2030 period.

Continue to innovate and improve the quality of training and combat readiness according to the motto "Basic, practical, solid", attach importance to synchronous, in-depth training, in a modern direction, close to combat reality. Build a comprehensively strong unit that is "exemplary and typical"; focus on building a contingent of officers and soldiers with strong political will, qualities and capacities to meet the requirements and tasks in the new situation.

The unit maintains strict air defense readiness.
Soldiers actively take care of the unit's campus landscape.

The unit strengthens the construction of discipline, discipline management, promotes studying and following Ho Chi Minh's ideology, morality and style; effectively implements the Campaign "Promoting tradition, dedicating talent, worthy of being Uncle Ho's soldiers" in the new period. Actively coordinates with local Party committees and authorities to maintain political security, social order and safety, actively participates in helping people develop the economy, build new rural areas, prevent and combat natural disasters and epidemics. In particular, focuses on building a clean and strong Party organization, promoting the pioneering and exemplary role of cadres and party members, building a team of cadres who dare to think, dare to do, dare to take responsibility, and successfully complete all assigned tasks.

After 60 years of building, fighting and growing, Regiment 3 (Thuan Hoa Regiment) has affirmed the mettle of a heroic unit, crystallizing noble values: Absolute loyalty to the Party, pure proletarian internationalism, steadfast will, creativity in organization and flexibility in action. Generations of cadres and soldiers in the Regiment have built the tradition of "Courage, resilience, solidarity, victory", worthy of the trust and love of the Party, State, Army and people.

Lieutenant Colonel NGO TRI XUAN, Political Commissar of Regiment 3

    Source: https://www.qdnd.vn/quoc-phong-an-ninh/xay-dung-quan-doi/trung-doan-3-doan-thuan-hoa-60-nam-kien-trung-duoi-quan-ky-quyet-thang-827850