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.
The American Aircraft Carrier, USS Hornet (CV-8), slowly departs from a dock. Closeup of the ship from the dock. The Hornet underway at sea in her shakedown cruise. F4F Wildcat aircraft of Navy Squadron VF-8, taxiing on her flight deck. Douglas Dauntless aircraft of Squadrons V8-8 and VS-8 on deck. Sailors moving a Douglas Dauntless dive bomber across the deck. A Douglas Dauntless aircraft taking off. Closeup of one in flight with canopy open and very closeup view of pilot in open cockpit. A Landing Signal Officer (LSO), holding two paddles, guides an F4F aircraft during a carrier landing. View of a Douglas TBD-1 Devastator aircraft from Squadron VT-8, landing and sliding off the flight deck, where it hangs upside down on lower part of the ship. Sailors gather around the stricken airplane. The pilot seen standing on the flight deck unhurt. An F4F landing on the flight deck. An LSO guiding a Douglas Dauntless plane as it lands.
An F6F Hellcat ditches in the sea. It floats long enough to allow pilot to abandon it before sinking. Next an A-4 Skyhawk ditches. Narrator remarks about the short time for escape from such aircraft on the surface of the water. Views of tests conducted by the U.S. Navy to test the sink rates of jet aircraft from various heights and attitudes. A dummy is placed in the cockpit of a derelict F9F Panther, which is lifted by a crane and is dropped into water from a low height. It is seen floating. (Narrator states that even with no structural damage, it sinks in less than a minute.) Next an FJ-2 Fury is dropped from about 55 feet. Due to structural damage, narrator states such an aircraft may sink in a few seconds, and generally between zero to 55 seconds. View of crane operator and then of an airplane sinking rapidly. Scene shifts to James F. Roth of U.S. Navy Attack Squadron 42,(VA-42) the "Green Pawns," in the closed cockpit of a Navy jet airplane. Next, an F-4 phantom jet is seen being catapulted from an aircraft carrier. Animation shows that the airplane falling into the sea right after takeoff will sink ballistically and can descend as deep as 100 feet in 10 seconds.
Soldiers of the U.S. Army get ready for a mission in Lai Khe, South Vietnam. A soldier guards in black beret adopted by men of Long Range Reconnaissance Patrol (LRRP). Soldiers wearing the black beret sit behind him on chairs during a class on AK-47 weapon. An instructor demonstrates use and repair of a machine gun. Soldiers listen to him carefully. Signboard of the Long Range Reconnaissance Patrol (LRRP). (Vietnam War period).
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