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The Presidential Guard (Vietnamese: Lữ đoàn Liên binh phòng vệ Tổng Thống Phủ Chữ Hán: 旅團聯兵防衛總統府) was a military unit of the Army of the Republic of Vietnam (ARVN) that was assigned to personally protect the President of the Republic of Vietnam, the nation-state that existed from 1955 to 1975.
The President Ho Chi Minh Mausoleum Protection Command (Vietnamese: Bộ Tư lệnh bảo vệ Lăng Chủ tịch Hồ Chí Minh), also known by its military designation Unit 969 (Đoàn 969) is the specialised force of the Vietnam People's Army tasked with protecting and providing ceremonial guards for the Ho Chi Minh Mausoleum.
A "ramp ceremony" is a memorial ceremony, not an actual funeral, for a soldier killed in a war zone held at an airfield near or in a location where an airplane is waiting nearby to take the deceased's remains to his or her home country. The term has been in use since at least 2003 [13] and became common during the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. [14]
Oct. 18—TESUQUE — Several times, Avelino Calabaza has reached out his hand and touched the black granite monument in Washington, D.C., devoted to the memory of American soldiers whose died in ...
It contains the graves of PAVN soldiers killed during the Ho Chi Minh Campaign and during the Cambodian–Vietnamese War. Bình An Cemetery , the former ARVN National Cemetery ( 10°53′22″N 106°48′34″E / 10.88944°N 106.80944°E / 10.88944; 106.80944 ) is located near the PAVN Cem
Three Soldiers (also titled Three Servicemen) is a bronze statue by Frederick Hart. Unveiled on Veterans Day, November 11, 1984, [1] on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., it is part of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial [2] commemorating the Vietnam War. [3] It was the first representation of an African American on the National Mall. [4]
David, whom Biden called a "flat-out straight-up American hero," distracted enemy forces that were attacking his company in Vietnam in May 1970, saving wounded fellow soldiers at his own expense.
Vietnam Coast Guard: coast protection; General Staff of the Vietnam People's Army: 144th Guarding Brigade: protective guards of Ministry of Defense headquarter, General Staff headquarter as well as national and international conferences [1]