Issuance of Conscription Orders, Delivered Directly to Citizens Before January 25, 2017

During the military recruitment process to prepare for the 2017 enlistment, several difficulties were encountered such as recruiting in one phase per year, higher quotas than previous years, an increasing number of young people of enlistment age going to school or working far away; and some localities were not thorough in pre-screening, reviewing, concluding health checks, and military service record reviews... To effectively execute the task of selecting and calling citizens for enlistment in 2017, the Military Region Commander issued Directive 2480/CT-BTL addressing key points as follows:

Selecting and Calling Citizens for Enlistment in 2017

The selection of citizens for enlistment must ensure the requirements for building the Army in the new situation, create a source of cadres for remote, isolated, and particularly difficult areas, and achieve social justice. The selection process must:

- Be stringent, follow the correct procedures and regulations, comply with the Law on Military Service; ensure 100% target attainment; maintain quality, safety, and frugality without substitutions or exchanges.- Focus on recruiting those who have graduated from universities, colleges, vocational schools to enhance the quality of the standing and reserve forces (mainly recruiting recent university and college graduates who are unemployed).- For selecting and calling female citizens for enlistment as regulated by the Ministry of Defense. Localities with female citizens volunteering for enlistment are responsible for completing the documentation: In addition to the regulations for male citizens, they must have a voluntary enlistment application, confirmed by the commune-level People's Committee where they reside, and a background verification dossier (according to the Ministry of Defense's Form 05b).

Avoiding Complaints in Local Military Recruitment

Military agencies in localities should appropriately allocate quotas based on each locality's capacity, associated with building reserve units in the area, ensuring that all communes, wards, commune-level towns have citizens enlisted. Secure a reserve source for military professions still lacking (in writing) with the receiving unit.

Commune-level authorities directly implement comprehensive procedures in military recruitment from registration, management of citizens of enlistment age, pre-screening, review of postponement, exemption from enlistment; review standards for political ethics, health, age, culture, policy categories ensuring stringency, objectivity, openness, fairness, democracy according to law, without complaints.

Promptly resolve any issues, strictly handle violations, negative expressions, compulsion, imposition during the recruitment process.

Supply military attire to enlistees conforming to regulations; coordinate and agree with the receiving unit on the number and quality of enlistees, ensuring the complete military service dossier for the receiving unit as regulated.

Conducting Health Re-Examinations, Reviewing Backgrounds, Political and Ethical Standards for 100% of New Soldiers

Organize the receipt of recruits ensuring the fulfillment of the following tasks:

- Properly prepare weapons, technical equipment, facilities, models, study aids, training grounds, barracks... to serve training and ensure the material and spiritual life of the troops from the first day.- Coordinate with localities to agree on the quantity, quality, time, location, method of receiving recruits, and conduct the enlistment ceremony properly.- Plan the transportation of new recruits, reporting to the Logistics Department and the Regional Finance Department to use vehicles of Regiment 651, Logistics Department, or ensuring funds for hiring vehicles for unit transportation (100% by coach bus).- Organize health re-examinations, testing, HIV, and drug screening, review background, political, and ethical standards for 100% of new soldiers within 07 days from the date of enlistment; notify and return to the locality those who do not meet the standards for military service.- Upon completing the training, coordinate with the localities to assign the new soldiers to units with a professional military specialization that the locality is lacking in reserve forces (according to the agreed local coordination document).

Issuing Enlistment Orders and Handing Them Directly to Citizens by January 25, 2017

Regulations on the timing of issuing enlistment orders, the reception of recruits are as follows:

- Complete two-level recruitment coordination by December 30, 2016.- Issue enlistment orders and hand them directly to citizens by January 25, 2017 (the 28th day of the last lunar month in the Year of the Monkey).- The receiving unit reviews dossiers, finalizes the list of recruits by January 20, 2017.- Reception of recruits:- February 14, 2017 (Tuesday, the 18th day of the first lunar month in the Year of the Rooster) for the provinces: Cao Bang, Bac Kan, and Thai Nguyen;- February 15, 2017 (Wednesday, the 19th day of the first lunar month in the Year of the Rooster) for the provinces: Lang Son, Bac Giang, and Bac Ninh.

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