The High Command of the Vietnam Coast Guard Region 1 has successfully organized a 2021 training on tactics and gun and artillery shooting at sea in the Gulf of Tonkin.
The High Command of the Vietnam Coast Guard Region 1 has successfully organised a 2021 training tactics and gun and artillery shooting at sea. In the photo: Squadron 11 before entering a long training session at sea. (Photo: VNA)
Flotilla 102’s fleet enters the shooting exercise (Photo: VNA)
Practicing first aid at sea (Photo: VNA)
Air-combat training (Photo: VNA)
Practicing shooting at sea (Photo: VNA)
Naval ships participating in training at sea (Photo: VNA)
The training is the basis for the High Command of the Vietnam Coast Guard Regional 1 to continue to improve the ready-to-fight capacity, commanding qualifications at all levels as well as check the exploitation and use of weapons and technical equipment of officers and soldiers on the Coast Guard ships. (Photo: VNA)
A delegation of Coast Guard Command led by Major General Bui Quoc Oai visited fishermen in Bach Long Vi island district, Hai Phong city from September 15 to 16 under a programme entitled ‘Coast guards as companions of fishermen’.
Vietnamese and Chinese coast guards on December 22-23 successfully conducted a joint patrol in the Gulf of Tonkin, contributing to building the waters of peace, stability and mutual beneficial cooperation.
International public opinion has criticized the Coast Guard Law of China, saying that China uses the law to legalise its coast guard force’s use of violence to serve the country’s unilateral sovereignty claim in the East Sea (also known as the South China Sea).
The patrol forces of the Vietnam Coast Guard and the China Coast Guard on April 28 finished their first joint patrol on the waters adjacent to the demarcation line in the Tonkin Gulf between the two countries in 2021.
The international community has voiced protest against China's new moves in the East Sea, including its enforcement of a fishing ban that took effect on May 1 on the sea area covering part of the Gulf of Tonkin and Vietnam’s Hoang Sa (Paracel) archipelago and its continued deployment of ships to Bai Ba Dau (Whitsun Reef) in Vietnam’s Truong Sa (Spratly) archipelago.
Cleaning up the beach and planting trees are among the many activities held within the “Clean the beach” campaign of the Coast Guard Command and the Mekong Delta province of Tien Giang in recent times. The campaign aims to raise awareness about environmental and sovereignty protection in coastal localities around Vietnam.
Officers and soldiers serving on marine platform and offshore fishermen have exercised their rights and responsibilities as citizens by casting an early ballot in the elections of deputies to the 15th National Assembly and all-level People’s Councils in Ba Ria-Vung Tau province for the 2021-2026 tenure.
Vietnamese Minister of National Defence Sen. Lt. Gen. Phan Van Giang talked via videoconference with his Japanese counterpart Kishi Nobuo on June 3, agreeing to further intensify cooperation in military medicine to combat COVID-19 and other disease outbreaks.
