sentences:  In 1943, he took a clerical job at Da Lat Court.He enlisted in the Vietnamese National Army (VNA) of the French-backed State of Vietnam at Phu Bai in 1949, and was first trained as a non-commissioned officer at Mang Cá, Huế, before being accepted into the first intake of the Huế Military Academy.After one year of training, he was commissioned as a lieutenant.