Original sentence: Benefiting with French assistance the NVA quickly became a modern army modelled after the Expeditionary Corps.It included infantry, artillery, transmission, armored cavalry, airborne and airforce.On March 8, 1949, after the Elysee accords the State of Vietnam was recognized as an independent country and the Vietnamese National Army was soon created.The VNA fought in joint operations with the French Union's French Far East Expeditionary Corps against the communist Viet Minh forces lead by Ho Chi Minh.Troopers as well as officers were all Vietnamese, the latter having been trained in local French academies known as Ecoles des cadres including Chief of Staff General Nguyen Van Hinh, which was a former French Union airforce officer
Edited sentence: According to the Geneva Accord was signed on July 20, 1954, the army was disbanded and only a militia allowed to remain.Desertions were high and their equipment was often sub-standard, with all of the best material going to the French units.Generally, there was not much incentive for public support of this French controlled army.In 1952, Vietnamese forces were made up of sixty battalions but never played a significant role in the French war against the Viet Minh.On March 8, 1949, after the Elysee accord Vietnam was recognized as an independent country and its Army was built to fight side by side with the Armed Forces of France against the communist and nationalist Viet Minh forces lead by Ho Chi Minh.The 5th BAWOUAN paratroopers battalion fought at the battle of Dien Bien Phu, a famous episode involves the battalion charging while singing the French Union anthem.The French referred to the formation of this organization as the "yellowing" of the French army in Indochina.The French used them mostly to garrison sectors they considered unimportant and to free up French forces for significant operations.They were, for example, used in such a way to man the "de Lattre Line" while French troops made attacks in North Korea.This event was depicted in the 1992 French-Vietnamese docudrama Dien Bien Phu directed by veteran Pierre Schoendoerffer.This force was named the "National Army of Vietnam" and was officered by French trained personnel or French army veterans such as the army's chief of staff, General Nguyen Van Hinh