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National Defense Academy is a high-ranking military academy to trains campaign-strategy level officers; The rest are middle-ranking military academy to train officers for the campaign, tactical team-army soldiers; The Officers Universities schools are primary to train officers for tactical team (platoon, company, battalion).
The Military Academy at Dalat, with a two-year curriculum combining academic and military subjects to train new officers, would be transformed later into a four-year institution. [ 1 ] : 14 The academy awarded graduates a regular commission and the rank of second Lieutenant, with a ten-year active duty obligation, but produced less than 200 new ...
The Vietnam People's Public Security (Vietnamese: Công an nhân dân Việt Nam) is the main police, and security force of Vietnam. The People's Public Security Forces is the core force of the people's armed forces in performing the task of protecting national security and ensuring social order and safety, and crime prevention and control.
The Vietnamese National Army was unofficially created on January 1, 1949, as the armed forces of the pro-French Provisional Central Government of Vietnam.It initially had roughly 25 000 troops, including about 10 000 irregulars. 1000 French officers were given the task of training and supervising the new army. [2]
People's Army of Vietnam Special Forces parading in 2015 with Israeli-license ACE 31 rifles. From the 1960s to 1975 the Soviet Union, along with some smaller Eastern Bloc countries, was the main supplier of military hardware to North Vietnam. After the latter's victory in the war, it remained the main supplier of equipment to Vietnam.
Since becoming an officer-producing school in 1952, the Infantry School graduated over 40,900 students as of November 1969 and continued to be the largest source of officers in the South Vietnamese armed forces. [1]: 139 On 18 January 1970 Viet Cong (VC) bombs exploded at the academy killing 18 people and wounding 33. [3]
Vietnam Naval Academy (Vietnamese: Học viện Hải quân - HVHQ, lit. 'Academy of the Navy') is one of Vietnamese military academies under the administration of the Vietnam People's Navy for training naval commanding officers in division level and commanding staffs in tactical/campaign level, include undergraduates and postgraduates of military.
The South Vietnamese Regional Forces (Vietnamese: Địa phương quân, lit. "Local Army"), originally the Civil Guard, were a component of Army of the Republic of Vietnam (ARVN) territorial defence forces. Recruited locally, they served as full-time province-level forces, originally raised as a militia. In 1964, the Regional Forces were ...