U.S. Army personnel assigned to the Military District of Washington DC undergo a physical training in Washington DC. At the U.S. Army Military District of Washington soldiers perform drills during ongoing physical training and maintenance. Soldiers stand in formation (this appears to be near grounds of the Pentagon in Arlington Virginia with George Washington Memorial Parkway in background) and their platoon Sergeant, Master Sergeant Queen, inspects them. Shown is the insignia of the unit: a sword across the Washington Monument.
Trainees of Company E, 1st Training Regiment at Fort Dix in New Jersey, United States. The trainees holding guns march on a field. They do push ups on a field during their physical training. They learn how to load a gun. An officer inspects the trainees' belongings. Commanding General Major S. C. Wooten gives a welcome address to the trainees.
Recreation activities for trainees of Company E, 1st Training Regiment at Fort Dix in New Jersey, United States. A trainee meets his girlfriend. They talk and dance. The trainees dance with their girlfriends at a Service Club dance party. An orchestra plays. A trainee's parents and his girlfriend visit him at the training center. They go out for a lunch. They visit the recreation area and go out for a drive. Trainees at a swimming pool, a golf course and a library.
German Chancellor Adolf Hitler addresses officials in Germany. German military aircraft in flight . Bombs falling on targets. German troops march through streets. U.S. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, at a desk in his office, signs the Selective Service Training Act of 1940. Officials mix serial numbers in a glass container. President Roosevelt announces the serial numbers of the men drafted into the U.S. Army. A large crowd of civilians gathered on the streets await the announcement. Selected men are shown in all places and in all walks of life, in the United States, including an African American man. The men undergo a medical and physical checkup at the induction center to begin service as new military recruits. Those inducted receive basic training and begin tours of duty in the U.S. Army. (World War II period). Background music during recruitment scenes is a chorus singing "This is the Army Mr Jones" by Irving Berlin.
A training of U.S. Army Ranger Regiment at Fort Benning in Georgia, United States. The Army Rangers mud fight and run through a field during a training. The rangers crawl in a barbed wire covered trench. They cross hurdles and crawl from under a wooden trunk. They wrestle with each other. They climb up a wooden wall and cross a river using a rope. The rangers cross a rope bridge. They learn repelling and mountaineering technique. The rangers disembark from aircraft and advance through a field. They walk through a jungle and cross a river during a patrolling mission. Trucks, jeeps and tanks loaded with rangers drive through a field.
A training at the U.S. Army Airborne School at Fort Benning in Georgia, United States. Trucks loaded with infantry soldiers drive through a field. Paratroopers descend from airborne aircraft. The soldiers jump from a wall and somersault during their training. They jump from a tower using ropes and then using parachutes. They jump from aircraft in flight. They also learn to carry their supplies and equipment
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