U.S. Army personnel train at the MACV (Military Assistance Command Vietnam) Recondo School in Nha Trang, Vietnam. Student soldiers being briefed in the jungle on a booby trap. A soldier briefs the students on various types of booby traps in the jungle. Soldiers, partially hidden in jungle growth. A booby trap. Vietnamese soldier instructs students on booby traps. A booby trap being 'tripped'. A soldier uses a bamboo pole to trip the booby trap. Students standing in the dense jungle. (Vietnam War period).
U.S. Army personnel train at the MACV (Military Assistance Command Vietnam) Recondo School in Nha Trang, Vietnam. One soldier is seen sitting offshore, in a large black rubber boat (RB-15 Zodiac) in final phase of boat swamping and up-righting exercise. Other soldiers are seen in the water all around the boat. Those in the water gradually climb aboard, as the team keeps the boat stabilized, until all are on board, out of the water. In change of scene, a team, of nine soldiers, paddles their boat away from shore. (Beach, with some soldiers wading is seen in background.) In next scene they paddle back and beach the boat. (Vietnam War period).
A U.S. Army helicopter gunships being readied for a mission, at Soc Trang, Vietnam during the Vietnam War. A sign reads 'Welcome To Viking Island, Home Of The Blue Diamond, Devils Of The Delta'. A UH-1B Iroquois helicopter parked at the base. The fronts of the helicopters display a big blue diamond with a caricature of a Viking holding a machine gun under each arm spouting flame. These belong to the 13th Aviation Battalion, 121st Assault Helicopter Company of Tigers and Vikings at Soc Trang, Vietnam. (Tigers had lift misssion and Vikings were gunships.)
United States Army soldiers read letters during mail call and look out from Fire Support Base West at Que Son Valley in Vietnam. CH-47 Chinook in flight. CH-47 hovers over hilltop and flies off. Helicopter lands. Soldiers sit on sandbag bunkers. Position overlooks the Que Son Valley. UH-1 Iroquois starts to come down and flies off. Soldiers read letters from home while standing and sitting around bunkers. (Vietnam War period).
U.S. Army soldiers of B Company, 196th Light Infantry Brigade making their way across a valley in Vietnam. They dismantle and flatten a wooden pole hut in an empty village that had been used by North Vietnamese NVA 2nd Regiment. Next, a U.S. soldier strikes a match and they set fire to roofs of empty huts and crushed huts to destroy them. (Vietnam War period).
U.S. Army soldiers of 196th Light Infantry Brigade in Vietnam during Vietnam War. Soldiers throw mats laden with rice on ground. Other soldiers watch. The soldiers empty out a partially destroyed pagoda or religious building Soldiers throw out mats from Pagoda. Soldier opens bag of rice and empties it on the ground. Soldiers inside the shelled pagoda break down the walls by hitting them with wooden beams, kicking and pushing with hands.
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