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. Handler takes a dog on obstacle course to train the dog. Dog run and jump over the obstacles. The dog also exercises on frame and bench. Trees in the background. Kennel and the field at night.
Operation Piranha in Cap Batangan, Vietnam. U.S. vessels and crafts in water. Well deck of USS Cabildo (LSD-16). The beach area. Explosions going off on hill tops from shell fire and jet bomb explosions. Some landing crafts are moving back towards the ships through water. Smoke drifts off from the hill tops in the background. An LCM (Landing Craft, Mechanized) in water and LVTP-5s (Landing Vehicle Tracked, Personnel) in water in the background.
Jeep pulls away outside Bien Hoa AFB gate. AH-1G helicopters flies over. MP (Military Police) talks over jeep radio. Buildings as seen from moving jeep. Smoke pours from III Corps area in the background. Wrecked houses. Civilians remove belongings from rubble. (Vietnam War period).
Buildings damaged by mortars at Bien Hoa AFB. Damaged Vietnamese A1-E plane. Hangar in the background. Destroyed U.S. Air Force F-100 jet. Aircraft parked outside hangar in the background. Destroyed and wrecked house trailers. (Vietnam War period).
Swift Boats at An Thoi in Republic of Vietnam (RVN). A Swift Boat underway in a river. An island in the background. Small islands in the far background. The Swift Boat on a high speed run. Steam and water sprays in the foreground. The officer in charge of the Swift Boat in the cabin of the boat. He uses the communications mike in the cabin. A windshield in the background. The officer turns a wheel.
Activities aboard Swift Boats in An Thoi, Republic of Vietnam. A Swift Boat pulls out into the harbor. Mountains covered with trees in the background. It approaches USS Esteem (MSO-438) anchored out in harbor. L L Ellis, BM2 (Boatswain's Mate Second Class) controls the ship. His hands at the helm. P H Harp, EN2 (Engineman Second Class) pulls refueling nozzle aboard from the USS Esteem. Harps kneels down on fantail with the fuel nozzle and lets the fuel run down into the tank. He places a rag around the end of nozzle and pulls the nozzle out from the tank. He walks with the fuel hose. Harp refuels the tank and then puts hose over the side to let fuel drain from hose into water. He hands the refueling nozzle to a man on the Swift Boat.
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