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At this time, Hai An District covered an area of 8,838.97ha with a population of 69,862, organized into six wards: Cat Bi, Dang Lam, Dang Hai, Dong Hai, Nam Hai, and Trang Cat. April 5, 2007: The Government issued Decree No. 54/2007/ND-CP, dividing Dong Hai Ward into Dong Hai 1 and Dong Hai 2 wards.
Map of military regions in Vietnam. The Vietnam People's Army has the following military regions: [1]. High Command of Capital Hanoi: It is directly under the Ministry of Defense of Vietnam; tasked to organize, build, manage and command armed forces defending the capital.
The 189 One Member LLC (Vietnamese: Công ty TNHH Một thành viên 189), trading as the 189 Shipbuilding Company (Vietnamese: Công ty đóng tàu 189), also operating under its military designation Z189 Shipyard or Z189 Factory (Vietnamese: Nhà máy Z189), is a state-owned shipyard in Vietnam, operated by the Ministry of Defense.
In general, province chiefs controlled Regional Forces companies, and district and village chiefs directed Popular Forces platoons. Normally, the province chief was also the sector, or military, commander of his province, and the district chief was the subsector commander. For military affairs, both reported to the local division commander.
The provinces of Vietnam are subdivided into second-level administrative units, namely districts (Vietnamese: huyện), provincial cities (thành phố trực thuộc tỉnh), and district-level towns (thị xã).
The People's Army of Vietnam (PAVN), officially the Vietnam People's Army (VPA; [11] Vietnamese: Quân đội nhân dân Việt Nam, pronounced [kwən˧˧ ʔɗoj˧˨ʔ ɲən˧˧ zən˧˧ viət̚˧˨ʔ naːm˧˧], lit. ' Military of and for the people of Vietnam ' [12]), also recognized as the Vietnamese Army (Vietnamese: Quân đội Việt Nam ...
The Vietnam People's Navy (VPN; Vietnamese: Hải quân nhân dân Việt Nam), internally the Naval Service (Vietnamese: Quân chủng Hải quân (QCHQ)), also known as the Vietnamese People's Navy or simply Vietnam/Vietnamese Navy (Vietnamese: Hải quân Việt Nam), is the naval branch of the Vietnam People's Army and is responsible for the protection of the country's national waters ...
On 7 February 1965, following the Attack on Camp Holloway, US President Lyndon B. Johnson ordered retaliatory airstrikes against North Vietnam and the deployment of HAWK missiles to South Vietnam to defend against any attacks by the Vietnam People's Air Force. The USMC 1st LAAM Battalion based on Okinawa was ordered to deploy to Da Nang.