The Division 315’s Party Committee and Command have focused their leadership and direction on preventing and repelling the risk of violating law and discipline via many drastic, creative, practical, effective measures as the forefront of the “three breakthroughs.”
First of all, the Division has placed emphasis on raising all-level party committee and commands’ responsibility for grasping and executing resolutions, directives and guiding documents by the Ministry of National Defence and the Military Region 5 on the observance of law, discipline and safety regulations, particularly the Directive 103/CT-BQP, dated November 28th, 2019 by the Minister of National Defence and the Resolution 02-NQ/ĐU by the Military Region 5’s Party Committee on discipline management and safety assurance within the Military Region 5’s armed forces. Grounded on such documents, the Division’s Party Committee has released a specialised Resolution and the Commander of the Division has issued a Directive on enhancing discipline management and military standard order building within the entire Division. At the same time, party committees and commands at all levels developed their own specialised resolutions and plans for this work in accordance with their units’ task requirements. Discipline education and management has become a central part of each office and unit’s yearly, quarterly and monthly resolutions. A wide and deep political campaign for this work has been organised from squads to offices of the Division. Emphasis has been placed on finding out reasons and proposing measures to deal with the risk of social evils, such as betting, gambling, and loan sharking, drawing lessons, pointing out weaknesses of each collective and individual, and enhancing discipline education and management.
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Significance has been attached to improving the quality of political, legal and ideological education for troops and aligning this work with responsibility of commissars at all levels. The work of political education has been aimed at raising troops’ awareness and political zeal and equipping soldiers with knowledge and skills to control themselves and complex situations relating to discipline and safety. To that end, the Division has adopted comprehensive, diverse measures to renew political education, associate theory with practice, identify focuses of political education, and promote troops’ proactiveness in study. The Division has directed its offices and units to include political education, legal education and history education in emulation movements, campaigns, political meetings, Youth Unions’ activities, training marches, and mass mobilisation.
Besides, the Division has actively renewed law propagation, dissemination, and education, while stringently maintaining the Legal Study Day. In this regard, great value has been attached to providing specialised information, organising legal knowledge contests, stagising law education, answering law-related questions, and watching documentaries. Law education has been combined with building troop culture, workplace culture, and traffic culture, while law propagation has been associated with discipline maintenance. Negative practices and violations of law and discipline within the Division’s offices and units have been seriously combated and criticised. The campaigns, namely “enhancing discipline education and management and ensuring safety within the Division at present” and “promoting comradeship and deserving to be Uncle Ho’s soldiers in the new period” have been organised in a large number of forms, from squad to battalion levels so as to raise troops’ law-abiding awareness, cement a sense of unity and comradeship, and enable soldiers to share difficulties in their life with one another and heighten their responsibility for themselves and their families and units. At the same time, due attention has been paid to disseminating and grasping new legal documents and violations of law and discipline to all soldiers, particularly at company and battalion levels, and providing information about violations of law and discipline at other units to draw lessons and formulate preventive measures within the Division’s offices and units.
In addition, the Division has well promoted its cultural institutions and models, such as “team for psychological and legal consultancy” and “learn an article of law on a weekly basis,” while maintaining the Legal Study Day on a monthly basis and including the study of articles of law in commanders’ weekly work schedule. Consideration has been given to actively propagating “good people, good deed” examples, pointing out weaknesses in offices and units’ task performance, grasping documents on military standard order building, discipline management, and traffic safety, and conducting the work of law education via internal radio system, personal emails, and the Internet. Doing so has allowed the Division to raise its cadres and soldiers’ awareness and responsibility for abiding by law and discipline, while grasping a number of signs leading to serious violation of law and discipline has become compulsory for all cadres and soldiers.
Special importance has been attached to managing soldiers’ ideology by the Division. In addition to maintain the order for weekly reports about ideological management, the Division has released many documents to direct its offices and units to improve the quality of political and ideological meetings, the Political and Cultural Day, and the Party’s Day within themselves. It has proactively worked with local party committees and authorities and troops’ families to grasp soldiers’ social relationships and participation in social networks, thereby enabling commanders at all levels to take effective measures for troop management. In the process, the Division has promoted the role of political cadres and commissars at all levels and other forces, while requiring them to quickly detect troops’ abnormal behaviours and act as soldiers’ “brothers, sisters and friends” so that soldiers could share opinions and difficulties with them.
Due regard has been paid to frequently inspecting the implementation of the Regulations on Democracy at grass-roots level, maintaining democratic dialogues at all levels, and directly taking part in dialogues with cadres and solders in order to grasp the situation and opportunely settle units’ weaknesses and soldiers’ problems. At the same time, great value has been attached to heightening the role model-setting responsibility of cadres and party members, particularly heads of offices and units for preventing the signs of violation. Besides, superiors, offices, cadres, old-timers, and party members have been asked to set good examples for subordinates, units, soldiers, new recruits, and the masses to follow respectively.
Due attention has been paid to enhancing military standard order building and improving the efficiency and effectiveness of command and management amongst cadres at all levels. Grasping and seriously executing the Circular 16/2020/TT-BQP, dated February 21st, 2020 by the Minister of National Defence, the Division has directed its offices and units to organise training courses on the line-up and troop management regulations under the basic programme and strictly maintain work regulations of commanders, commissars, and party committee secretaries according to their function and task. On a monthly basis, the Division has held refresher courses on military standard order building and discipline management to raise all-level cadres and commanders’ capabilities in management and command.
In fact, most of the serious violations of law and discipline are related to social evils, gambling and betting that make soldiers unable to pay their loans or lead to incidents in the management and use of weapons and equipment or traffic accidents. Hence, the Division has focused on closely managing its staff members’ social relationships, particularly on cyberspace. It has stringently maintained the daily, weekly regimes and safety regulations, closely managed the use of the Internet and social networks, and proactively, actively prevented social evils from penetrating into itself. Significance has been attached to maintaining regulations on meetings and conferences, particularly at squad level and three-soldier groups’ meetings so as to opportunely grasp and report violations of law and discipline and avoid shielding weaknesses.
The Division has conformed to safety regulations during training, combat readiness and other activities. It has frequently organised refresher courses for cadres exercising their direction over exercises, shooting, grenade throwing, explosive detonating, warning, search, rescue, and first aid so that they would readily deal with incidents during their missions. After training courses and exercises, the Division has inspected its units’ clean of training grounds, settlement of ammunition and unexploded ordnance, and removal of hazards. Units within the Division have been required to observe regulations on managing infantry rifles. Due attention has been paid to managing, registering, recording and arranging weapons and equipment within depots and gun cabinets at all levels. Emphasis has been placed on closely inspecting and supervising the allocation and maintenance of weapons and explosives within offices and units. The Division has thoroughly grasped and strictly abided by regulations on using cars and motorbikes, closely managed entrance and exit at its affiliates, and enhanced military patrols to opportunely rectify violations committed by troops and military vehicles and report them to offices and units. As a result, the Division has made a positive change in troops’ observance of the State’s law and the Military’s discipline, while witnessing no serious violation of discipline for many consecutive years.
In spite of a lot of risks and challenges, the Division 315’s political resolve and drastic measures mentioned above will provide an important prerequisite for achieving a breakthrough in discipline management, preventing and repelling serious violations of discipline, and building an “exemplarily, typically” comprehensively strong unit capable of fulfilling its assigned missions in the time to come.
Sr. Col. HUYNH VAN TRONG, Commissar of the Division 315