sentences:  Nhung would spend most of his career as Minh's "aide-de-camp" and bodyguard.He was described as a quiet and slightly built man who smoked a pipe.Following the end of World War II, the French set up the State of Vietnam, an associated state within the French Union, and created the Vietnamese National Army (VNA), and both Minh and Nhung transferred to the VNA, where they were trained and commissioned as officers.