Four new U.S. Security Policemen relieve old ones at Hill 151. Old Security Policemen board HH-43B 'Huskie' helicopter. U.S. Security Policeman opens supply package. U.S. Security Policemen carry supply items to observation post overlooking Phu Cat Air Base at Hill 151. U.S. Security Policemen place supplies near the tent post. U.S. Security Policeman looks towards the valley.
Written in dirt on ground '151 Security of Phu Cat'. Red Cross women visit U.S. Security Policemen at observation post on Hill151 during Christmas week. Red Cross women serve Christmas dinner to U.S. Security Policemen. U.S. Security Policemen eat Christmas meal and talk to Red Cross women. HH-43B helicopter lands at Hill 151
Flares and tracers streak through dark sky. Mini gun from AC-119G Gunship fires shots and illuminator at Phu Cat Air Base, Vietnam.
Tracers fired from U.S. AC-119G Gunship aircraft streak through dark night sky at Phu Cat Air Base, Vietnam. View of fire shots and illuminators.
Broad view of the valley in which the Phu Cat base is taking shape during construction. Many structures are already complete. Hills visible in distance. Areas of newly cleared earth visible. Carpenters seen on roof of a building being framed, in a row of wooden buildings. Closeup of U.S. Airmen (members of 819th Rapid Engineer Deployable Heavy Operational Repair Squadron Engineers, AKA RED HORSE). They are installing corrugated asbestos cement roofing sheets on a new building. View of Airmen on ground handing roofing sheets up to installers. View of a man in fatigues and cap smoking a cigarette, as he watches the airmen work. (He wears no military insignia, and is possibly a civilian working with the onstruction consortium: RMK-BRJ (Raymond International & Morrison-Knudsen, Brown & Root & J.A. Jones Construction.) The Airmen of 819th pause for the camera, then reach out and install some more roofing panels.
Exercising of K-9 sentry dogs and patrolling tactics used by the handlers of the 37th Security Police Squadron in Phu Cat Air Base, Vietnam. A handler stands outside a kennel on a field. A dog comes out of the kennel. The soldier takes the dog to a field for exercise and training. A ring suspended for the training of the dog lies on the ground. Soldier walks with the dog. Another man stands nearby. (Vietnam War period).