Are officers and men who love the border and coastal defense the same as national defense education?

It's different.

The officers and men who love the border and coastal defense not only express the care and love of the local party committees and governments and the people, but also bring a good radiation effect of national defense education, and set off an upsurge in the whole society in which soldiers defend the border and offer loyalty, the whole society supports the army as the backing, respects the soldiers, advocates heroes and cares about national defense.

National defense education is a social activity to defend national sovereignty, territorial integrity and security, resist the construction and struggle of foreign aggression and subversive threats, and impart ideas, knowledge and skills related to national defense to the whole people. The important content of national defense construction includes all kinds of social activities to enhance the national defense thought, knowledge, skills and physical quality of the whole people and help form and improve the national defense concept and ability.