Part of the U.S. Army training film describes the role of Light Weapon Infantrymen. Squad members check their rifles and take positions. Automatic rifleman determines the direction of fire. The Squad leader checks the positions of his team members. Bushes and logs kept in place to hide from the enemy. Logs are laid over the hidden area with sacks on top and camouflaged with bushes. United States soldiers fix the wire and place land mines on ground. Gasoline barrel placed on ground and camouflaged.
Part of the U.S. Army training film describes the role of Light Weapon Infantrymen. Squad members ready to defend their area from enemy attack. Positions constructed and area is well camouflaged. Enemy tanks advancing. Supplementary positions taken and communication trenches dug. Squad leader informs platoon leader of advancing enemy infantry. United States soldiers open fire on enemy. To counter attack, the enemy blows a gap in the tactical wire. Squad reorganizes before another enemy attack
2nd Battalion of 173rd Airborne Brigade Combat Team prepares for mission in Vietnam. Platoon leaders check maps and discuss plan of action. Soldiers color their faces with black paint. Platoon leader writes on a piece of paper. Soldier seated outside tent, smokes a cigarette. (Vietnam War period).
2nd Battalion (Airborne), 503 Infantry, 173rd Airborne Brigade (Sep) prepares for a mission. Soldiers use camouflage stick on each other's faces. They wait next to helicopters. Bell UH-1D and Bell UH-1B "Huey" helicopters take off from Bien Hoa Air Force Base, South Vietnam. Ground view of a line of UH-1B helicopters in flight. Point of view shot inside helicopter from just behind the cockpit of a "Huey" shows a number of other helicopters flying ahead. Helicopters fly above green fields. (Vietnam War period).
U.S. Army 2nd Battalion (Airborne), 503rd Infantry, 173rd Airborne Brigade (Sep) on an operation in South Vietnam. Paratroopers advance through rice paddy fields and thick forest area. Officer speaks over radio phone on field. Next, soldiers are seen standing where they have popped a yellow smoke grenade to mark a landing zone.. More views of the troops making their way to the landing zone. Scene shifts to a group of Bell UH-1 Iroquois (Huey) helicopters approaching and landing in trail formation. The soldiers are dispatched in groups to board the choppers. After all are aboard, the helicopters take off in formation and depart. View from one of the helicopters as it is leaving. Soldiers are seen on the ground below. Glimpse of a helicopter pilot inside a cockpit. View of another helicopter flying above. View of helicopters flying in formation. Closeup of one flying nearby with door open.
2nd Battalion of 173rd Airborne Brigade Combat Team on mission in Vietnam. Soldiers walk towards airstrip and wait to board helicopters. UH-1D and Bell UH-1B Huey helicopters parked on airstrip at Bien Hoa Air Base, Vietnam. Helicopters take off. (Vietnam War period).
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