Roll out ceremony of American X-15 aircraft at Edwards Air Force Base in California, United States. United States Vice President Richard Nixon gives a speech during roll out ceremony of X-15. American X-15 comes out of the hangar. Photographers take pictures. Pilot wearing space suit gets into the cockpit of the aircraft. Technicians and engineers check the aircraft and take readings on instruments.
U.S. training film 'The Recon Marine' shows United States Marine Corps undergoing training in the United States. Glimpse of a U.S. Marine Corps M48 Patton tank moving past camera. A Landing Vehicle Tracked, LVT(A)1, armed with machine gun and fitted with the turret of a 75 mm Howitzer Motor Carriage M8. It is moving through surf, away from shore. Fleeting glimpse of U.S. marine Corps jet fighter aircraft in flight. Major Richard S Stark ,U.S. Marine Corps Reserve, talks about the aspects of Marines training program. The American flag in the background. Battle scenes of Marines advancing amidst heavy firing. Marines in training, using ropes to cross a a concrete pool filled with water. (One falls into the pool.) Marines training in unarmed hand-to-hand combat and running an obstacle course. Marines marching in formation.
Non-Commissioned Officers in the United States Marine Corps. Major Richard S Stark of the USMC talks about the role of NCOs. He introduces a Sergeant Henry Barber from the United States Marine Corps, who.talks about team work, discipline, hard work, self confidence, adaptability and initiative being the fundamentals of United States Marine Corp. Board of officers reviews personal record book of a Marine, containing details of his personal and training.. The board members interview the Marine. Marines, being reassigned, carry their duffel bags while moving into different quarters. They run towards their quarters. Board reads 'Second Force Reconnaissance Company Force Troops, FMF Atlantic'.(Fleet Marine Force, Atlantic). At this Marine Corps Base, Camp Lejeune, North Carolina, marines are seen doing pullups and pushups to assess their physical condition.
United States Marine Corps Recon unit personnel undergoing training at the United States Army Airborne School (AKA Jump School), Fort Benning, Georgia. The course is three weeks long and consists of three phases: "Ground Week", "Tower Week" and "Jump Week". Marines jumping from a low platform, learning how to safely fall, during phase one. Marines climbing a ower, during phase two, and sliding along a cable, while suspended from parachute risers. Next, they are seen in controlled parachute descents from a tall tower. A closeup of one hitting the ground. Marines seated with full parachute gear, in an airplane during the third (Jump week) phase of their training. They stand and move toware the jump door, with their chutes hooked to a static line. View from below, of open parachutes descending. Marine receiving his parachute wings, upon graduation from Jump School.
U.S. Reconnaissance Unit marines receiving underwater training at the U.S. Navy submarine school, New London, Groton, Connecticut. Inside the Buoyant Ascent, Submarine Escape Training Tower, marines equipped with breathing apparatus and flotation collars, are seen rising to the surface of the tank. Glimpse of a submarine on surface of water. Inside the submarine, marines in a platoon, assigned to a team, are briefed by an officer. Then the NCO in charge, carrying his swimming flippers, leads his team into the escape trunk, for their first training mission. View of the marines as water rises around them. Then they are seen making buoyant ascents from the submarine, with bubbles trailing as they rise. View at surface as the team members reach it. The team swims toward shore, pulling their equipment in waterproof bags. They land on a beach, and sweep away any landing marks in the sand. Inland, a team member removes a submachine gun from its waterproof bag. He gives the gun to another marine, fully dressed in camouflage fatigues,
A U.S. Marine Corps Reconnaissance Team begins a field training exercise, after having landed from a submarine and changed into their camouflage fatigues. They patrol through small trees and underbrush. A Grumman S2F aircraft lands on a small airstrip, and the recon team emerges from the woods to board it for flight back to their base. A formation of marines with field gear, starts to move double-time along a dirt path. A formation of Sikorsky H-34 helicopters seen flying low over plumes of black smoke rising. Marines, in amphibious assault training operation, approach surf in Landing Vehicles Tracked (LVTs). They run from the LVTs as they hit the beach. Marine infantry and M48 Patton tanks during actual combat (or realistic training exercise), with large plumes of black smoke rising in various locations.