Promoting tradition, devoting talent, deserving to be “Uncle Ho's Soldiers” in the new era is a large Campaign launched in the whole army. This is one of the most important contents which were led and directed by the Party Committee and Command of Brigade 161, Naval Region 3 to make active changes in cadres’ and soldiers’ awareness and actions, contributing to making the Brigade strong in politics and ready to accomplish all assigned tasks.

Connecting the traditional to the present.

Grasping and launching the Campaign of promoting tradition, devoting talent, deserving to be “Uncle Ho's Soldiers” in the new era (known as the Campaign) have been considered by the Brigade’s Party Committee and Command as an advantageous opportunity making motivation to build the personnel factor, fortify cadres and soldiers’ honour, pride and responsibility for keeping, promoting and highlighting the quality of “Uncle Ho's Soldiers” – Navy soldiers, deserving the belief that the Party, State and People have on Navy Soldiers. In order to carry out this work, the Brigade has enhanced the education, propaganda and improvement of the cadres and soldiers’ awareness of the meanings and importance of the implementation of the Campaign, the values and quality of “Uncle Ho's Soldiers” – Naval soldiers. Every year, besides the serious maintenance of the standards and quality of political education according to the scheduled contents, the Brigade attentively organises education and grasp of personally selected subjects on promoting the learning and following of Ho Chi Minh’s thought, ethics and style, bringing into play the quality of “Uncle Ho's Soldiers”, building the comradeships together with educating the Brigade’s traditions and missions. In order to correctly evaluate the learning results, officers at all levels are asked to write their reports or take the evaluating tests which are organised closely, seriously and objectively, thereby creating suitable solutions to solve the weaknesses and shortcomings to continuously improve soldiers’ awareness. With the Brigade’s typical features of being dispersive with many parts working independently or on long-day cruises, all-level party committees and commands always base on the specific tasks and features to build education contents making sure they are suitable, diverse in forms and methods; combine with the “Party day”, the “day of politics, culture and spirit” and meetings of the public unions; relate the education and propaganda on political meanings, cultural values of “Uncle Ho's Soldiers” to bringing into play the traditions of the Service, Region and Brigade. In order to attract cadres and soldiers, offices and units often organise political activities, seminars, performances, exchanges, traditional talks, etc. in theatrical forms with many plentiful topics being close to each participant. Bringing into play the cultural institutions, the Brigade organises appropriate spaces in the library, Ho Chi Minh’s Room in order to display objects, books, pictures on Uncle Ho, “Uncle Ho's Soldiers” – Naval soldiers, good examples of people and actions, etc. for soldiers and people to visit and learn. At the same time, the Brigade often cooperates with the Department of propaganda and training, the Youth Union in all localities in the area to propagandise the islands, seas, models and the qualities of “Uncle Ho's Soldiers” – Naval soldiers in the new era for all subjects, especially for the naval reserves and militia, students and the youth union’s members, through which, to make the historical combination between the past and present, raise the patriotism, and national pride so that each cadre, soldier and people can continuously better themselves, contributing to the building and safeguard of the Homeland, actualising the desire for building a prosperous and happy country.

Being pervasive and deeply penetrating

In order to make the values and qualities of the “Uncle Ho's Soldiers” penetrate into cadres’ and soldiers’ activities and life, the Brigade has grasped and seriously implemented Direction No. 855-CT/QUTW, dated 12/8/2019 by the Standing Committee of the Central Military Commission on enhancing the implementation of the Campaign; Plan No. 3380-KH/ĐU, dated 08/11/2019 by the 3^rd Naval Region’s Party Committee on implementing Direction No. 855-CT/QUTW with many synchronous and effective contents and solutions. Executive committees and party cells have concretised them in their periodical leading resolution; the commands have built and implemented their plans which are close to the features, situation, roles and tasks of each office and unit. The Brigade has attentively selected the key contents focusing on improving the weaknesses, limitations; clearly specified the finishing time; executive committees and party cells at all levels, especially the secretary, have taken responsibility for the implementation of the Campaign. Executive Board of the Youth Union, Women’s Union at all levels have built their action plans which are suitable with their roles and tasks connected to the contents and targets of the Campaign; concretised in the annual commitments on self-improving, practicing and striving of cadres, party members and people; maintained the effective and disciplinary implementation of the content. The Campaign’s results is one of the important bases to decide the emulation and awards, evaluate and rank collectives, cadres, party members and people in the offices and units. At the same time, the Brigade’s Party Committee and Command have requested all-level executive committees, party cells, people’s unions to check and add them to the resolutions, leading regulations, plans and action programs, clearly assign the collectives’ and individuals’ responsibility for the implementation of the Campaign; decently implemented the mechanism of the democracy dialogues with cadres and soldiers; enhanced the responsibility for setting good examples by cadres, party members, especially the commanding officers in all offices and units, at the same time, directed the Supervisory Committees, executive committees and party cells at all levels to add the implementation contents of the Campaign connected to the improvement of learning and following Ho Chi Minh’s thought, ethics and style, and Conclusion No. 21-KL/TW, dated 25/10/2021 by the Central Executive Committee (13^th tenure) on enhancing the construction and reorganisation of the Party and the Political system; firmly preventing, repelling and strictly dealing with cadres and party members who have been degraded in their political manner, morality, life style, with the manifestation of “self-evolution”, “self-transformation” to their plans on checking and inspecting party cells and party members. As a result, the implementation of the Campaign in the Brigade has been disciplinary and practical with many interesting models and effective methods.

Strong motivation, actual effectiveness

Enhancing the implementation of the Campaign in the Brigade is not only the mission and responsibility but also the emotion and an important motivation encouraging cadres and soldiers to emulatively train their ethics, talents, highly proving their responsibility and desire for devotion, mobilising the general strength of organisations, forces, the unity of all soldiers in building offices, units and finishing the assigned tasks. Consequently, the executive committees and party cells at all levels have specified their responsibility, promoted the directions and strictly organised the implementation of the Campaign, focused on dealing with new missions and difficult work.

To make advantages for cadres’ and soldiers’ practice, and quantify the results of the implementation of the Campaign, the Brigade has directed the all-level political office, executive committee and command to continuously research, concretise the contents and targets of the Campaign and the qualities of “Uncle Ho's Soldiers” – Naval soldiers into the ones on the political spirit, motivation, responsibility; ethics, lifestyle; culture, scientific knowledge, military skills, ability, methods, working manners; practice of democracy, disciplines, etc. which are practical to each subject, suitable with offices and units, and easy to be remembered and implemented. In the implementation process of the Campaign, all offices and units have synchronously combined the methods of politics, thought and organisation, in which enhanced the improvement and widening of the good examples and models, creative methods in each field. Many movements and models such as “3-strength office”, “4-good party cell ”, “Party member guiding people and juniors”, “Self-lighting, self-correcting”, “Good deed each day”, etc. have been conducted and widened; that many collectives and exemplary individuals who have been awarded has been spread throughout the Unit. The Brigade has attentively implemented the combination between improving the good thought, emotion, ethics and lifestyle and preventing bad habits penetrating into the unit; strictly criticised and struggled with the limitations, shortcomings so that cadres and soldiers can timely correct themselves, at the same time, combined the norms of the Campaign with the implementation of the targets of the Determined-to-win Emulation Movement and the emulation movements of other branches and other campaigns. Owing to that, the contents and norms of the Campaign have been penetrated and widened in all Brigade’s activities, becoming the main motivation for the unity, unanimity, self-reliance, self-strength, creativity, overcoming difficulties to accomplish the tasks in the Brigade. With the strong and effectively practical motivation, the Brigade, in recent years, has been the leading flag of the Region’s Determined-to-win Emulation Movement; in 2022, the Brigade was awarded with the Flag of the leading unit of the Determined-to-win Emulation Movement and the Flag of the well-training unit.

Bringing into play the achieved results, with the emotion, responsibility, pride in the traditions of “Uncle Ho's Soldiers” – Naval soldiers, Brigade 161’s cadres and soldiers have continuously promoted the Campaign with practical activities, contributing to building the all-strong, “exemplary, typical” Unit and beautifying its tradition of “Being active and proactive, overcoming difficulties, firmly holding the islands and sea, well accomplishing the assigned missions”

Senior Colonel NGUYEN QUANG VINH, Brigade’s Political Commissar