13 Facts About PAVN

The PAVN is a part of the Vietnam People's Armed Forces and includes: Ground Force, Navy, Air Defence - Air Force and Border Guard.

The military flag of the PAVN is the flag of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam, with the words Quyet thang added in yellow at the top left.

In 1985, the PAVN undertook the role of leading the 40th National Day Parade in Hanoi by performing their biggest parade in history.

PAVN was first conceived in September 1944 at the first Revolutionary Party Military Conference as Vietnam Propaganda Liberation Army to educate, recruit and mobilise the Vietnamese to create a main force to drive the French colonial and Japanese occupiers from Vietnam.

The PAVN sustained heavy losses of its main forces in southern military zones.

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In 1975 the PAVN were successful in aiding the Khmer Rouge in toppling Lon Nol's US -backed regime, despite heavy US bombing.

PAVN has been actively involved in Vietnam's workforce to develop the economy of Vietnam, to co-ordinate national defence and the economy, as for the result of its long-relationship of Vietnamese economic development within military history.

The PAVN has regularly sent troops to aid with natural disasters such as flooding, landslides etc.

The PAVN is involved in such areas as industry, agriculture, forestry, fishery and telecommunications.

The PAVN has numerous small firms which have become quite profitable in recent years.

For example, in late November 2009, shortly before the start of the 2009 Southeast Asian Games in Vientiane, the PAVN undertook a major troop surge in key rural and mountainous provinces in Laos where Lao and Hmong civilians and religious believers, including Christians, have sought sanctuary.

PAVN oversees such agencies as the General Staff and the General Logistics Department.

The PAVN captured large numbers of ARVN weapons on 30 April 1975 after Saigon was captured.