The 7th Military Region of

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, tasked to organise, build, manage and command armed forces defending the

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. * Command Headquarters:

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* Commander:

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Nguyễn Trường Thắng * Political Commissar: Lieutenant General Trần Hoài Trung * Deputy Commander cum Chief of Staff: Major General

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Agencies

* Department of Staff * Department of Politics ** Division of Organisation ** Division of Cadre ** Division of Policy ** Division of Propogendar and Training ** Division of Thoughts and Culture ** Military Court of Military Zone ** Military Procuratorate of Military Zone ** Military Museum of Ho Chi Minh Campaign of 7th Military Zone: No. 2, Road Lê Duẩn, District ( vi, quận) 1,

** Newspaper of 7th Military Zone ** Troupe of 7th Military Zone * Department of Logistics * Department of Technique * Office of Command of 7th Military Zone

Units

* Military Command of Hồ Chí Minh municipality * Military Command of

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* Military Command of Bình Dương province * Military Command of Bình Phước province * Military Command of Bình Thuận province * Military Command of Đồng Nai province * Military Command of Tây Ninh province * Military Command of

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* Military Command of Long An province * Military School of Military Zone * 5th Infantry Division * 302nd Infantry Division * 317th Infantry Division * Other special troops: anti-aircraft, anti-aircraft artillery, tanks, combat engineer

Successive Commander and Leadership

Commanders

* Colonel General

Trần Văn Trà Nguyễn Chấn, known as Trần Văn Trà (1918 – April 20, 1996) was a Vietnamese general. He was a commander in the Vietcong; a member of the Central Committee of the Lao Dong Party ( Workers' Party of Vietnam) from 1960 to 1982; a lieutena ...

(1976–1978) * Lieutenant General (1974), Colonel General (1980), General (1984)

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, (1978–1981) * Lieutenant General Đồng Văn Cống (1981–1982) * Lieutenant General, Colonel General (1986) Nguyễn Minh Châu (1982–1987) * Lieutenant General

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(1987–1990) * Lieutenant General Bùi Thanh Vân (1990–1994) * Lieutenant General Đỗ Quang Hưng (1994–1995) * Lieutenant General Lê Văn Dũng (1995–1998): promoted to General, Director of General Department of Politics of Vietnam People's Army * Lieutenant General

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(1998–2003): promoted to Colonel General, member of

Central Committee of the Communist Party of Vietnam The Central Committee of the Communist Party of Vietnam (Vietnamese: ''Ban Chấp hành Trung ương Đảng Cộng sản Việt Nam'') is the highest decision-making body of the party between convocations of the National Congress. History The C ...

, Deputy Minister of Ministry of Defence. * Lieutenant General Nguyễn Văn Chia (2003–2005) * Lieutenant General

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(2005-2/2009) * Lieutenant General Triệu Xuân Hòa (2/2009-2011): honoured as Hero of the People's Armed Forces (1983) * Lieutenant General

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(2011-2015) * Lieutenant General Võ Minh Lương (2015-2020) * Major General Nguyễn Trường Thắng (2020-present)

Political Commissioners, Deputy Commanders of Politics

* Colonel General

(1976–1978)Tran Van Tra (2 February 1983), History of the Bulwark B2 Theater, Volume 5, Concluding the 30-years War, Combat Studies Institute, U.S. Army Command and General Staff College, Southeast Asia Report No 1247 * Colonel General

(1978–1981) * Colonel General Nguyễn Minh Châu (1982–1987) * Lieutenant General Lê Thành Tâm (1997–2004): Deputy Commander of politics, now Chairman of Ho Chi Minh City Vietnam Veterans. * Lieutenant General Nguyễn Thành Cung (2004–2010), Political Commissar. member of

* Lieutenant General

Phạm Văn Dỹ Phạm is the fourth most common Vietnamese family name from , which may be rendered as ''Fan'' in Chinese or ''Beom'' (범) in Korean. It is not to be confused with Phan (潘), another Vietnamese surname. Origin Phạm is the Sino-Vietnames ...

(2010-2018) * Lieutenant General Trần Hoài Trung (2018-present)

References

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