A crewman of U.S. Navy FBM (Fleet Ballistic Missile) Nuclear Submarine serving food. Eating food with other members of the crew in the submarine galley. A sailor talking to other crew members. Crew members have coffee. U.S. Navy sailor holds a guitar and plays it. Close up view of man playing guitar. The guitar has a civil war rebel flag on it. Submarine crew members play cards and watch a cartoon on television. A crewman dials phone. A crewman knocks and comes inside the room. Captain congratulates him. A man sleeps. Crewmen of nuclear submarine play a game. Crewmen talking and having coffee. A crewman reading.
Work life of crew members of U.S. Navy FBM (Fleet Ballistic Missile) Nuclear submarine while at sea during the Cold War. Sailors reviewing figures on paper. A man speaking on radio. Scene of printed data on paper. Lights alight on a control board. Crew members talk on a radio. Scenes of machines and controls inside submarine. Crew members talk among themselves. Crew members wearing head sets. A man notes on a pad.
Naval officers come to a building. Naval officers sit in a room during a training session. Crewman at control panel. Officers stand on U.S. Navy FBM (Fleet Ballistic Missile) Nuclear submarine. A sailor talks on phone. A crane lifts a bar. Scenes of repair of submarine. A page shows repair job status. Scene of a meter. Scene of iron melting. Sailors working. The Poseidon missile lowers down. A man climbs up to the ship. People with their bags on the submarine. A sailor enters submarine. Crew members on the turret of the submarine. Sailors untie the thick rope tied to submarine. Submarine goes into the sea.
Film opens with aerial view of a U.S. Navy submarine squadron of the Asiatic Fleet, afloat, with approximately 20 submarines clustered alongside their tender, USS Holland (AS-3). Views from a small boat (unseen) circling the boats show the Hollsnd, from near the USS Shark (SS-174). Camera boat moves past submarine numbered P7 and the USS S-29 (SS-134) docked next to it. View on from deck of the tender shows submarines clustered around her. Sailors work on her lines, as they stand near one of her 5-inch guns. views of machine shop aboard the tender, showing sailors at work. One is machining a part on a lathe. Another is working on a saltwater depth guage. Sailors placing torpedoes into the tender's storage vaults. Scene shifts to sailors holding line on a diver under water doing repair work on the tender. Sailors placing supplies aboard the USS Permit (SS-178) as it prepares for a practice diving cruise. The USS Plunger (SS-179) is seen next to it. Submarines: USS Pickerel (SS-177), USS Salmon (SS-182),USS Seal (SS-183), and USS Pollack (SS-180), are also seen. The USS Permit moves to get underway. Several boats are seen maneuvering, including the USS Skipjack (SS-184) and the USS Sturgeon (SS-187).
U.S. Navy Marine Corps newsreel from 1996. Opening scenes show glimpse of the USS The Sullivans (DDG 68) followed by a Green shirt giving signal for catapulting of an F-14 Tomcat aircraft from an aircraft carrier. Next the USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN-71)is seen underway. Behind a waving U.S. flag, the destroyer, USS Barry (DDG-52) is seen in the distance. Closeup of the fast attack submarine, USS Atlanta (SSN-712) surfacing with a huge splash. Petty officer Terry Mathis and Petty officer Ron Flanders hosting the program, are seen outdoors at U.S. Naval Station, Norfolk, Virginia, on the Navy's 221st Birthday. Scene shifts them speaking as they walk along the empty flight deck of the USS Theodore Roosevelt. Suddenly a slate, reading,"March 1996, Crisis Looming?" overlays view of the USS Theodore Roosevelt. An F-14 aircraft takes off from a carrier deck. An amphibious assault ship is shown. Red shirts moving ordnance aboard a carrier. An F-14 being catapulted. Four segment split screen shows a Landing Craft Air Cushion (LCAC); a marine aiming a weapon; an amphibious assault ship; and President Bill Clinton, wearing a flight jacket and a cap identifying the USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN-71) as he speaks during a visit to that ship. Full screen of the President, is followed by another F-14 being catapulted. Scene shifts back to empty deck of the Theodore Roosevelt. Petty Officer Demetrios Adams is introduced. Noting that their catapult is in some maintenance activity, Adams describes its operation. Below decks in the bomb assembly shop, Aviation ordnanceman 2nd class Joel Bell, who describes assembling 500, 1000, and 2000 pound bombs seen behind him. Next, Petty Officer Charles Warren is introduced in the jet shop. Standing near jet engines he describes duties of his shop. Next, in damage control central, Electrician's mate, 1st Class, Jack Rickart, explains his duties (mentioning two nuclear reactors). At the flight deck control board, Petty Officer, Michael Knowles tells about the flight deck "Ouija board." Program hosts are back on flight deck next to ship's "Island." Sailors approach in dungarees. Others are shown at work on the ship. The USS Albany (SSN-753) moving on surface. Sailor Layton McGaw,Landing Craft chief Engineer speaks briefly. Sailor Jackie Tatum, Air Traffic Control Supervisor, speaks, and is seen in the control tower. Corpsman Donald Abele, talks of his responsibilities and is seen treating a sailor's foot. A Landing Craft Air Cushion (LCAC) headed to shore, and interviews with LCAC navigator, Christopher McCoy, and Chief engineer Andrew Sebastian. Interior of LCAC. Hosts in Primary flight tower. A sailor receiving a warfare pin. A submarine on the surface. Sailor Richard Cooper discusses the warfare pin. Sailor Ron Schneider, on the USS Barry, discusses it. Views inside a submarine. Sailor Jeffrey Strickland on the USS Atlanta, and Curtis Sears,on the Roosevelt.
A boy reading. Scene of a globe on a table. Scene of a board in a classroom. A man practice boxing, a girl painting. "Navy" flashes on screen and close-up view of young men and young women side by side smiling as narrator talks about rising to the challenge.
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