Lieutenant Colonel Vu Van Ha, Political Commissar of Battalion 162, said: “We set the target of completing all training courses with good results or better, the unit has no officers or soldiers violating discipline, and absolute safety. To complete the target, commanders at all levels have strengthened education, built motivation and determination to train soldiers, while maintaining strict discipline, regimes and organizing strict and serious training. After nearly 3 months of training, the unit's new soldiers have matured in all aspects, have strong political will, and are good at self-study and self-training.”

The combat units of Ngoc Vung Island Battalion, Brigade 242 strictly maintain combat readiness.

Deploying the peak emulation campaign "Remembering Uncle Ho's words, competing to excellently complete tasks in the first 6 months of 2023", Co To Island Battalion, Brigade 242 again determined the content and targets to focus on improving the quality of regular construction and discipline management. Explaining this issue, Lieutenant Colonel Mai Minh Chau, Battalion Commander of Co To Island Battalion said: "The unit is located on a remote island, some units are stationed independently and dispersed, so maintaining order and regime is difficult. On the other hand, at this time, the island welcomes a large number of tourists with many activities, which further increases the potential for disciplinary violations. Therefore, we strengthen education and dissemination work combined with regular inspections to promptly detect, prevent, and strictly maintain discipline in the unit."

It can be affirmed that the emulation activities have contributed to building a strong political stance, a spirit of readiness to receive and complete all tasks for officers and soldiers. The overall quality and combat readiness of Brigade 242 have been increasingly improved and put into practice; over 78% of the completed inspection contents were good and excellent; the unit participated in competitions and sports events at all levels and achieved many high results. In 2022, the Brigade was recognized as an "Excellent Training Unit".

New soldier of Battalion 162, Brigade 242 won "Good Shooter".

Sharing experiences to achieve the above results, Colonel Pham Van Duong, Political Commissar of Brigade 242 affirmed: “First of all, it is necessary to promote the role and responsibility of Party committees, commanders, political agencies and political cadres in leading, directing, operating and organizing the implementation of emulation and reward work. Maintaining the emulation movement with regular inspection and timely drawing lessons from existing problems and weaknesses; resolutely fighting against the disease of achievements and subjective and mediocre thinking in emulation. In addition, it is necessary to closely combine emulation with rewards; conducting rewards must be objective, fair, and appropriate to the right person and the right job to create solidarity as well as motivation for collectives and individuals to strive to excel in completing their tasks.”

Article and photos: NGUYEN TRUONG