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For the first time, the Ministry of National Defense organized a female military band to participate in the parade. There were female soldiers who were playing musical instruments for the first time, carrying a trumpet weighing 18kg, but all of them overcame the challenge to complete the mission.
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In the parade formation to celebrate the 70th anniversary of the Dien Bien Phu Victory, the female soldiers of the armed forces always receive special attention because of their quick, strong, and decisive command movements, exuding a heroic look while still maintaining the grace and softness of the "long-haired army".
This year, 27 groups of the Police and Military forces participated in the parade, including 7 groups of women. Among them, there were groups appearing for the first time in a parade such as the female Military Band group and the female Peacekeeping group.
With the female military band, they appeared in the first minutes of the opening parade, along with the majestic, resounding sounds of drums and trumpets.
During the struggle for national liberation, the heroic sounds of the Vietnamese military band contributed to encouraging, motivating, and urging our entire army to enthusiastically and steadily move forward, fight and defeat all enemies, and successfully complete all assigned tasks.
Today, the heroic sounds of Vietnam's military music are accompanying and encouraging our entire Party, people and army to successfully carry out the cause of building and defending the socialist Vietnamese Fatherland.
Lieutenant Colonel Pham Dinh Chien, Military Ceremonial Team, General Staff of the Vietnam People's Army, said that the group consists of 86 members, aged 20-34, selected from 18 units under Military Regions, Corps, Service Branches, Academies, and Schools throughout the army.
The standard for women is to be 1m6-1m7 tall; have a balanced body and face; have clean political qualities and especially need to have some musical talent. In the block, there are also members from the Army's gifted and artistic schools who have a background in music, who will take on the position of block leader, standing at the front of the line.
The musical instruments performed by the female Military Band include: Drums, trumpet, cornet, tuba, saxophone, baritone horn, helicon horn...
“There are very large musical instruments that weigh from 14-18kg. For musical instruments like these, female soldiers must be selected whose body shape, weight, and height are superior to other members of the group,” said Lieutenant Colonel Pham Dinh Chien.
This is the first time the Ministry of National Defense has organized a female military band to participate in a parade, so Lieutenant Colonel Pham Dinh Chien shared that the group has many special features such as many members have never known about musical instruments, rhythm or music. Many members start from zero, some members have even never seen that instrument in real life.
Lieutenant Colonel Tran Dinh Chien expressed that the positions for carrying and playing musical instruments must be trained from the beginning, so sometimes it is a bit difficult. With the heaviest helicon, which weighs up to 18kg, it needs to be trained to carry 2-3km/trip. Or with the trombone, female soldiers must learn to pull it out and in according to the melody and rhythm.
Carrying musical instruments is already hard for male soldiers, so for female soldiers, this is a great effort. Especially in Vietnam, very few women can play the wind instrument, because women often choose stringed instruments, light instruments.
After being selected and refined for more than a month of practicing drumming, marching... with the marching song "Going Even" the female soldiers performed smoothly, evenly, beautifully, and uniformly.
Female soldier Pham Thi Hong (30 years old) is one of two female members of the Military Band who is in charge of the largest and heaviest musical instrument, the helicon. She said this was the first time she had come into contact with this instrument in real life. Although she was confused at first, she and her teammates were determined because the task of participating in the parade is "an honor and pride that not everyone has".
“The first time I saw it, I was surprised at how big the trumpet was. The brothers in the ceremonial troupe gave me detailed instructions. During the first week, I was not used to it. The trumpet’s speaker was very big and I had to carry it on one shoulder, which felt extremely heavy. After the main practice sessions, I took the opportunity to practice more to improve my health and endurance.
In addition, it is also necessary to practice breathing and walking in harmony and reasonableness, without being unsteady when walking against the wind. Now I am used to it, and after 2 months of using it, I love the trumpet more," female soldier Pham Thi Hong shared.
Lieutenant Luong Thi Ha Phuong confided that this was also her first time playing the helicon. "The first feeling when practicing was that the trumpet was very heavy, if you go against the wind, you will lose balance. At first, I practiced with each part of the trumpet. The trumpet was disassembled into two parts so that I could get used to it, starting with the horn speaker and then the lower part," said Lieutenant Phuong.
Originally an athlete in the Army, Lieutenant Phuong quickly adapted to the new instrument and lessons.
HA (according to Vietnamnet)
