Nearly 400 students join 2024 National Defense Sports Festival

On December 12, the Provincial Department of Education and Training coordinated with the Provincial Military Command to organize the 2024 National Defense Sports Festival for high school students in Binh Duong province. The sports festival had nearly 400 athletes from 33 high schools in the province.

Students competed in 9 categories, including general knowledge of national defense and security education; squad command; individual command without guns; first aid and transfer techniques; AK shooting; AK disassembly and assembly; long-distance grenade throwing; 800m armed run with AK submachine gun...

The sports festival is held every two years to maintain and promote the movement of training and practicing basic military skills; raise students’ awareness and knowledge about national defense, people's security, the Party's viewpoints, policies and laws of the State on national defense and security; educate the tradition of fighting against foreign invaders of the nation, the people's armed forces and Vietnamese military art...

Students take part in competitions.

Reported by Thu Thao - Translated by Ngoc Huynh