Indoctrination of Fourth Infantry Division of the U.S. Army in Vietnam. U.S. soldiers and Montagnard Cadre troop in prone position in firing line at the rifle range in Camp Enari. Soldiers instructed by the officers to check their positions and to load their rifles. The soldiers take aim and fire with M16 and M14 rifles with scopes. Target with misses on both sides. A large group of soldiers attend a map reading class. The instructor explains and the soldiers study the maps. Vietnamese Montagnard Cadre troops in prone position in rifle range firing line. Soldiers fire M14 at the target. Close view of a 25 meter (1000 inch) target. (Vietnam War period).
A Battalion of Nationalist Chinese troops assembled in formation on a ramp at an airbase in Formosa (Taiwan). They wear summer conical hats. Their Commander, a Major, calls them to attention and addresses them. Next, a Sergeant is seen briefing a squad of camouflaged soldiers. A landing craft stops short of a beach and Nationalist Chinese troops jump out, wade ashore, and charge across the beach. From different view, the beach is seen to have barbed wire and other obstacles on it. Smoke rises from live fire carried out at side of beach. The troops dash between obstacles and surmount a berm. Next, soldiers are seen riding atop two camouflaged U.S. M2 half-tracks, crossing a bridge, at high speed. They are followed by two U.S. Stuart M3 light tanks and infantry running behind. An infantryman running along a furrow in a cultivated field. Two infantrymen run through a rice paddy where farmer is working. One gets exhausted and falls down in the paddy. Two soldiers firing a mortar. Another soldier demonstrates throwing a hand grenade, and ducks for cover as it explodes. Three soldiers firing an M1917 Browning water-cooled machine gun. Goosestepping Nationalist Chinese troops parade along a wide dirt road, past several buildings. They raise considerable dust as they march.
During the Cold War, a British Royal Air Force soldier describes a mounted M60 machine gun to a fellow RAF soldier and notes that the M60 machine gun has a range of 3725 meters with a maximum effective range of 1100 meters. A sign says “501st Tactical Missile Wing”. A U.S. Air Force C5-A Galaxy’s front open with BGM-109G Ground Launched Cruise Missile inside. The upward hinged door says “Military Airlift Command”. A soldier signals to the truck inside the aircraft. Soldiers working onBGM-109G Ground Launched Cruise Missile. Soldiers adjust camouflage covering a BGM-109G Ground Launched Cruise Missile. Two camouflaged soldiers walk in front of a military vehicle towing a missile.RAF soldiers with an M60 machine gun. Rear view of BGM-109G Ground Launched Cruise Missile being towed along a dirt road. Close up of BGM-109G Ground Launched Cruise Missile wheels moving. A soldier, wearing glasses, driving a BGM-109G Ground Launched Cruise Missile. A BGM-109G Ground Launched Cruise Missile drives through a muddy, flooded road. View of undercarriage of BGM-109G Ground Launched Cruise Missile as it drives on road.
Exercise Bright Star 80 in Egypt. U.S. soldiers of the 1st battalion, 502nd Infantry, 2nd Brigade, 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault) coach Egyptian troops in firing M-79 grenade launcher attached to M-16 rifles. American soldiers guide the Egyptian soldiers about handling and firing of rifles at a firing range in Egypt. Hits at the target area as Egyptian troops fire rifles and smoke rises. A man with a rifle in the foreground as firing continues. Soldier loads the launcher and targets the rifle towards the sky.
Marine M48 Patton tank parked atop a hill, with turret turned to the side, fires rounds toward a hill across a valley. In rapid succession, are seen an explosion; a Marine firing a recoiless anti tank weapon; an M67 flame thrower tank in action engulfing an armored target in flames; as Marine riflemen keep down in a protected position, two MGR-1 Honest John missiles are launched nearby; a Marine charges from trench toward the camera firing a flame thrower and flames fill the camera view; Marines charge from the trench, toward the camera. More flame thrower fire is seen.
U.S. Navy and Marine life fire exercises at sea. Opening scene shows Destroyer USS Decatur (DD-936) accompanying Aircraft Carrier USS Coral Sea (CV-43)at high speed. Navy and Marine pilots scramble to A4 Skyhawk aircraft readied on deck of the aircraft carrier, USS Ranger (CV-61). Green shirt operator seen at controls below ship's catapult, as an A4 is launched. F4 Skyray aircraft being launched simultaneously from different catapults. Destroyers firing 8-inch guns. Closeup on deck, of an 8-inch gun being fired. Battery of antiaircraft guns installed beside flight deck on an aircraft carrier. missiles being lauched from deck of a ship and from aircraft in flight. Marine aircraft dropping napalm. Flames and black smoke from the bombing.
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