Highlights the role of United States Coast Guard in Operation Desert Storm, Saudi Arabia. Importance of maintaining a high morale among men at the war front. A Coast Guardsman plays with a dog on board a ship. MCPO (Master Chief Petty Officer) Bill Vahey explains the importance of boosting the morale of Coast Guard personnel through mail and good food. Men watch television, read and write mail. PSC Henry Kohnert also emphasizes upon the importance of mail as a morale booster for men at the war front. Special groups and youngsters send encouraging mails to Coast Guards. A 70 feet long mail sent by children displayed and men look at the mail. Men eat food around a table, a radar boat underway at sea. PAC Mike Price eats a meal. Coast Guards eat ready to eat MRE food from a packet. An officer in a television interview praises the MRE food and promotes it. Men of Security unit 301 eat food prepared by their own cooks.
Highlights the role of United States Coast Guard in Operation Desert Storm, while stationed in Saudi Arabia. A tank, a plane in flight and a patrol boat underway at sea. Port Security units of Coast Guards on duty. A gunner on duty. Coast Guard personnel build tent city using wooden logs at Jubail in Saudi Arabia. PS1 Jim Cudney speaks about the construction of tent city.
United States Navy Elco PT boat underway in Atlantic Ocean during World War II. Men aboard the boat work on equipment, with one using a paint brush to apply paint or lubricant to a piece of deck equipment. Naval officer looks out over ocean through a pair of binoculars. "Moreno" on opening film indicates cameraman was Robert C. Moreno from the OSS Field Photo Unit.
United States President Franklin D Roosevelt is administered the oath of office by the Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes The President's son, James Roosevelt, assists him when he walks. President Roosevelt delivers an inaugural speech. Soldiers, sailors and cavalry units march down the Pennsylvania Avenue on the Inauguration Day. A large crowd gathers along road side to watch the soldiers in action.
Events relate to the barracks bombing in Beirut, Lebanon. Two American marines move on a road. Soldiers drive a jeep. Soldiers stack up sand bags. Soldiers plant barbed wire fence. View of the United States Marine Corps (USMC) camp site. Guard at the entrance approaches an army jeep and checks the ID cards of the soldiers aboard. Board at the camp entrance reads, '43 Battalion Lebanese Army-24 Marine Amphibious Unit'. A sandbagged barricade. Soldiers stand near barbed wire fence. Troops leave the area. Exteriors of the camp site.
Reserve Officers' Training Corps (ROTC) students engage in a sham battle at Georgetown University in Washington DC, United States. Infantry units advance behind tanks. A tank moves forward. Soldiers fire rifles and advance. Some of the soldiers seated near an artillery piece. A building in the background. A tank advances. An officer instructs a soldier to fire a gun. Soldiers lying in prone position fire rifles.
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