During the resistance war against the US to save the country, the Division participated in 1,200 battles, shooting down 464 US aircraft, including 18 types, including 12 B-52 strategic bombers. Many excellent battles achieved high combat efficiency, shooting down enemy aircraft on the spot, breaking up large enemy attacks. The combat and construction practices of the Division have contributed to the treasure trove of air defense military art and Vietnamese military art in the new era.

Currently, the development of science and technology, innovation, digital transformation; training tasks, combat readiness, airspace management... are posing increasingly high requirements, diverse, complex, and urgent. Therefore, the Party Committee, Party organization, officers and soldiers of the entire 365th Air Defense Division continue to promote the 59-year tradition of building, fighting and developing; focus on leading, directing and synchronously and comprehensively implementing policies and measures to build a "revolutionary, disciplined, elite, modern" Division, focusing on building a politically strong Division, as the basis and foundation for building a comprehensively strong "exemplary, typical" Division.

Continue to thoroughly grasp and synchronously and effectively implement resolutions and directives of all levels on Party building and rectification work; Regulation No. 144-QD/TW of the Politburo on "revolutionary ethical standards of cadres and party members in the new period". Continue to promote studying and following Ho Chi Minh's ideology, morality and lifestyle" in conjunction with implementing Resolution No. 847-NQ/QUTW dated December 28, 2021 of the Central Military Commission on promoting the qualities of Uncle Ho's soldiers, resolutely fighting individualism in the new situation.

Focus on improving the comprehensive leadership capacity and fighting strength of Party committees and organizations at all levels; linking the building of Party organizations with the building of command organizations and mass organizations; promoting the exemplary role of cadres in charge of agencies and units; building cadres and soldiers of the entire Division to have steadfast and firm political will; have pure motivations and high responsibility; have clean ethics and lifestyles, have scientific qualifications, capabilities, methods and working styles, and be ready to receive and successfully complete all assigned tasks.

Soldiers of the 365th Air Defense Division on their way to the training ground.

The entire division performed well the tasks of training, combat readiness, airspace management, and firmly protecting the airspace of the North - Northeast of the Fatherland. In particular, focusing on leading, directing, thoroughly grasping, and effectively implementing the directives, orders, and regulations of the Ministry of National Defense and the Service on combat readiness tasks. Strictly maintaining discipline and combat readiness regime in accordance with regulations. Radar stations, air defense observation stations, and eye observation posts regularly raised the spirit of vigilance, promptly and accurately reporting on air situations in the assigned area, not being surprised or missing opportunities due to air situations.

Continue to thoroughly grasp and strictly implement the resolutions, conclusions, regulations and procedures of the Central Military Commission, the Ministry of National Defense and the Service on training tasks, especially Resolution No. 1659-NQ/QUTW dated December 20, 2022 of the Central Military Commission on "Improving the quality of training for the period 2023-2030 and the following years", focusing on innovating training content and methods, closely combining military training with political education; training mettle and fighting spirit with training, training to improve the physical strength of soldiers to be able to meet the tasks of combat readiness and combat in all urgent, fierce and long-term situations.

Organize training for troops to understand and skillfully use the weapons and equipment provided, especially new and improved ones; grasp the enemy's weapons, equipment, and vehicles to have appropriate combat plans. Focus on synchronous and specialized training, improve the level of organization, command, and combat practice for all levels; train in the retrieval, mobility, and deployment of weapons and equipment, and train close to actual combat, meeting mission requirements.

The Division has strengthened the quality of formal construction, management, education on law enforcement and discipline; proposed many policies and measures, creating a solid change in formal construction, discipline management, ensuring traffic safety and safety in all activities.

Promote the exemplary responsibility of Party committees, commanders, political commissars and political officers at all levels; promote the role of working groups and teams such as: "Group of three", "psychological, health and legal counseling group"; promote the effectiveness of good and effective models such as "One Law Article a Day", "One ideological situation a week"... closely coordinate between families and localities to grasp the social relationships of soldiers, the internal political situation of agencies and units, promptly detect developments in the ideology and psychology of soldiers, in order to have timely and decisive solutions; strengthen education, raise awareness of strict compliance with State laws, military discipline, regimes and regulations of units, at the same time commend, reward and replicate advanced models with good practices and good results in building discipline and managing discipline.

Training hours at the 365th Air Defense Division.

In addition, the 365th Air Defense Division thoroughly grasped the directives, resolutions, and conclusions of all levels on leading technical and logistical work in the new situation, synchronously deployed policies and solutions to overcome difficulties, promoted the initiative and creativity of technical staff and experts in preserving, maintaining, managing, and exploiting weapons and technical equipment well, durably, and safely; at the same time, actively studied and improved the level of exploitation and proficient use of existing weapons and technical equipment. Continue to effectively implement the campaign "Manage and exploit technical weapons and equipment well, durable, safe, economical and traffic safe" and the emulation movement "Military Logistics Sector follows Uncle Ho's teachings", ensuring adequate and timely quantity of materials and logistics equipment for tasks, especially combat readiness and training tasks... contributing significantly to improving the material and spiritual life of officers and soldiers in the Division.

Party committees and commanders of agencies and units in the entire Division thoroughly grasp resolutions and directives of all levels on science and technology development, innovation and digital transformation, especially Resolution No. 57-NQ/TW of the Politburo, Resolution No. 3488-NQ/QUTW of the Central Military Commission, Resolutions of the Service, and the Division Party Committee; making all cadres and party members, first of all Party committees and commanders at all levels, more clearly aware of the position and role of science, technology, innovation and digital transformation.

On that basis, the Division specifies the tasks of science, technology, innovation and digital transformation in resolutions, programs, and regular and annual work plans for implementation; focuses on promoting the spirit of creativity, daring to think, daring to do, daring to take responsibility of the staff, party members, especially the heads of agencies and units in developing science, technology, innovation and digital transformation; takes the results of implementing these tasks as the criteria for annual emulation and reward evaluation and at the same time identifies this as the top important breakthrough to build a revolutionary, disciplined, elite and modern Division.

With a long history of achievements and feats in the resistance war against the US, saving the country and throughout the process of construction and development, the Division has been awarded 579 medals and badges of various types to collectives and individuals, received flower baskets from the President four times, and was awarded 65 flags and banners of various types for achievements in combat, combat readiness, training and construction. The Division and 16 collectives and 7 individuals were honored by the Party and State as Heroes of the People's Armed Forces. The achievements and feats of the Division over the past 59 years have been a source of encouragement for officers and soldiers to constantly strive to excel, excellently complete all tasks in the new period, contributing to further embellishing the glorious history of the heroic Division.

Colonel VU XUAN YEN, Political Commissar of Air Defense Division 365

    Source: https://www.qdnd.vn/quoc-phong-an-ninh/xay-dung-quan-doi/viet-tiep-truyen-thong-doan-phong-khong-ha-bac-832271