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Just in time to sit down on the tray of rice, Major General Nguyen Van Man accepted the task “to go to Hue urgently.”
He was Deputy Commander of Military Region 4, one of 13 officers in an accident at Ranger Station 67, when the mission was on its way to rescue the group of hydroelectric workers in Rao Trang 3 (Phong Dien, Thua Thien Hue).
That day was the morning of October 11 in Vinh City, Nghe An. The meeting before the 75th anniversary of the traditional day of the Armed Forces of Military Region 4. The comrades shook hands and asked each other some questions, their superiors called General Man to come and tell him that he needed to go to Hue immediately. This area is very flooded. More than 300 km away, the Binh Dien hydroelectric lake was flooded, the Huong river rose, the interior was deeply flooded, tens of thousands of houses were submerged in water.
“The handshake, encouragement and effort that day was the last time we met,” said Maj. Gen. Nguyen Duc Toi, former deputy chief of staff for Military Region 4. He looked at General Man’s straight-backed shadow. , remembering a man “who was always aggressive, without fear of suffering” since he was a young officer.
At 4:00 pm on the same day, the mission led by Major General Nguyen Van Man was present at the Phong Dien District Military Command. Understanding the situation, the group immediately moved to Phong My commune, located upstream of the O Lau River. Approximately 2 km from National Highway 1A to Vinh Nguyen Highway, vehicles must stop when flood water flows upstream to cause deep flooding. He got out of the car and plunged into the floodwater to meet his needs. “In the last few days, what did you eat?” He asked, handing more than a dozen households on Vinh Nguyen Street, each house with a bucket of instant noodles.
Major General Nguyen Van Man (1st, 2nd from right), observed the flood situation and led the rescue work, helping people in Phong Dien district, Thua Thien Hue, on October 11. Image: QK4
Upon learning that Quang Dien was in the lower reaches of the deeply flooded Bo River, he asked the Thua Thien Hue Military Command to inspect it. Observing the huge white flood, General Man asked to use all his strength to rescue the people in the flooded areas. People are needed, equipment, the Command of the 4th Military Region will respond. The forward flood command post was installed in Phong Dien district, where he assumed direct command.
On the morning of October 12, the mission went deeper into the heavily flooded areas of Quang Dien and Phong Dien districts to continue meeting basic needs. On the afternoon of the same day, upon receiving news of the disappearance of many workers from the Rao Trang 3 hydroelectric power station, located in the Phong Dien nature reserve, he decided to lead a mission of 21 men to the rescue site. At that time, it was raining heavily, Provincial Highway 71 leading to the Rao Trang 3 Hydroelectric Power Station had dozens of landslides, four fast-flowing streams, difficult to access to the site. The delegation did not withdraw but walked to the fastest place where the workers were in danger, understood the situation in the field to deploy the rescue work.
At 11 p.m. the same day, the group was still about 13 kilometers from the scene. Unable to continue due to the dark and heavy rain, the delegation entered Song Bo Forest Protection Station in Subarea 67 to rest. Row of level four houses, roofed with iron, leaning against the mountain. At midnight that night, after a loud bang, dirt and rocks fell from the high mountains, burying Ranger Station 67, 13 people were missing from the mission. The final image of the Subcommander of Military Region 4, is a man standing in the storms, his helmet is wet, his low tube shorts and flooded sandals, stormy winds blow his military supplies. .
At 7:20 p.m. on October 15, the last body of the mission was found. The ambulance took the body of Major General Nguyen Van Man and 12 other officers who were government officials and officials to the 268 Military Hospital in Hue city. Teammates lined up on both sides of the road solemnly saluted the command as the ambulance passed.
The comrades greeted the order when the convoy carrying the victim’s body passed on the afternoon of October 15. Image: Nguyen dong
Teammates and friends remember Major General Nguyen Van Man as a simple and loving central person, despite his different positions.. As a high school classmate with Mr. Man, Mr. Doan Ngoc Lam, Deputy Organizing Committee of Quang Binh Provincial Party Committee said, “Sugar is so sudden, it is very painful.” Sometimes the phone conversation is interrupted, your voice is muffled.
On the morning of October 13, when you heard that the cadres from Military Region 4 and Thua Thien-Hue Province were missing, you knew that you were the main commander, so Mr. Lam immediately picked up the phone but did not could. Contacting many acquaintances, all simply answered “what will be the information later”. Last time, the two met at Noi Bai airport, on a business trip. After a few minutes of talking about work and family, they parted ways with Quang Binh and Nghe An. The next two dates will be free to make tea. But now I can not.
“Mr. Man is a man of the people, he thinks of people in everything he does and his way is very close. With his friends, be he a government official or a freelancer, he is always as friendly as he is sitting. in the school chair, regardless of status. Every time we meet, there are emotional hugs from the soldiers, “shared Mr. Lam.
Major General Nguyen Van Man is a member of the 14th National Assembly and is running for the Minh Hoa district. According to Mr. Cao Thanh Hai, Head of the Minh Hoa District Propaganda Department, on every occasion of meeting with voters, Mr. Man is always interested in political families, poor households, lonely old people, proposing many mechanisms for the local population. Ethnic minority.
“When he heard the voters reflect on a certain incident, he went down to find out, at the end he asked, asked for documents about the investigation and responded to each one,” Hai recalled.
The engineering force searched the bodies of the victims at Ranger Station 67. Photo: QĐND
Minh Hoa is an area where frequent flooding occurs. Tan Hoa Commune, with a valley topography surrounded by limestone mountains, is considered the “navel flood” of Quang Binh province. The flood of 7-10 / 10, there are hundreds of houses flooded 0.5 to 4 m deep. Knowing the characteristics of the area, when he was working in the town, when he saw heavy rains for many hours, General Man immediately approached his subordinates to inspect and direct the relocation of people to the house to avoid flooding and prevent danger.
“When the floods caused isolation in Tan Hoa commune, Mr. Man and many others went to the canoe to inspect. When there were many flooded houses with roofs, he turned to instruct the canoes to slow down. Go fast will create big waves and break. People tiles, “said Mr. Hai about a time against the floods with General Man.
Seven years of knowledge, Colonel Trinh Thanh Binh, commander of the Quang Binh Border Guard, remembers his teammates as “a simple, practical and decisive person”, true to the character of the central people. While working in Quang Binh, the two mainly met in military and defense work. Colonel Binh said that whenever he had a trial for the prevention of natural disasters, General Man would tell him to make a detailed plan, to avoid negligence affecting the safety of officers and soldiers. If there is anything unsatisfied, it will be frank.
“You wonder about the detailed issues of the revised draft of the Border Law that will be discussed in the next session of the National Assembly in the coming days, about the border compatriots, what do you have?”, Colonel. Binh spoke about his last phone call a week ago.
Nguyen Van Man speaks at the session of the National Assembly in November 2017. Image: National Defense Press Centerme
On the afternoon of October 13, when he was in command of flood relief, Colonel Binh learned that the Military Region 4 mission had an accident on the way to the Rao Trang 3 hydroelectric power station. “The brothers were shocked upon hearing that Mr. Man was in the delegation, phone calls for information, “his voice sank. For the past three days, the Quang Binh Border Guard Commander has just led the flood relief, awaiting news of the search for comrades at a distance of almost 200 km. But in the end, no miracles happened. Colonel Binh planned to go burn incense for his comrades as soon as the flood and storm in the area were temporarily calm.
Searching for victims at Ranger Station 67. Video: CTV
Major General Nguyen Van Man has a wife and three children (two girls and one boy). The first daughter graduated from college, the second daughter is in the 12th grade, the youngest son is in the 8th grade. Growing up from the grassroots, Mr. Man respectively holds the position of Deputy Commander, Commander of the Military Command. Quang Binh Province, Deputy Commander of Military Region 4, was promoted to Major General in May 2019.
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