Over the past three decades, generations of naval solders of Battalion DK1, have braved great hardship and worked on those platforms on the continental shelf. (Photo: VNA) Colonel Vu Duy Luu, deputy head of the PoliticalDepartment of Naval Region 2, recalled the establishment of theeconomic-scientific-service platform cluster DK1 on the southern continental shelf, whichwas set to serve the task of safeguarding national sea and islands.
Over the past three decades, generations of navalsolders of Battalion DK1, who come from different localities across thecountry, have braved great hardship and worked on those platforms on the continental shelf, he said.
During strong storms in 1990, 1996, 1998 and2000, several platforms were destroyed, causing the death of a number of naval officers and soldiers working on the platforms.
Their sacrifice has become a noble symbol of naval soldiers’ heroic virtue inthe new period, Colonel Luu stressed.
The participants held a one-minute silence, burnedincense and released flowers in memory of the fallen soldiers./.
VNA
