Incoming U.S. Vietnam Ambassador Ellsworth Bunker and outgoing U.S. Vietnam Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge shake hands with each other in Saigon, Vietnam. Reporters ask questions. Henry Cabot Lodge and his wife board plane and wave.
Vietnam tour by U.S. Deputy Secretary of Defense, David Packard. Mr.Packard enters the Vietnamese Naval shipyard, Saigon. A motorcade seen. Vietnamese personnel in the background. Cars enter a gate. Mr Packard meets Commodore Tran Van Chon, Chief of Naval Operations,Vietnamese Navy and Captain Bich, Commander of Republic of Vietnam Naval shipyard. Mr Packard meets with several Vietnamese officers. Mr Packard ; U.S. Vice Admiral Elmo Russell Zumwalt, Comnavforces, Vietnam and Commodore Chon look at the map of the shipyard. Mr Packard enters a car. The car moves. Republic of Vietnam military police in a jeep. The official party departs the shipyard.
USAF,USN and ARVN personnel requiring air transportation through the 8th Aerial Port squadron terminal on Tan Son Nhut Air Base in Saigon, Vietnam. United States Air Force (USAF),United States Navy (USN) and Army of the Republic of Vietnam (ARVN) airmen at counter process request for identification forms. Men at counter check forms. The luggage being checked and tags put on the luggage. Vietnamese airmen stand at the counter. U.S. and Republic of Vietnam passengers wait in lobby. Two airmen sleep in lobby. (Vietnam War period).
ARVN (Army of the Republic of Vietnam) Special Forces train at the Special Forces Training Center in Cam Ranh Bay, Vietnam. A classroom at the base. A sign board outside a building. A group of Vietnamese Special Forces trainees being given a lesson in the Korean martial art of Tae Kown Do by two black belt Korean instructors. Drawings on the walls. Trainees stand facing each other in two lines. Instructors observe maneuvers and direct the trainees. Instructors demonstrate and trainees follow instructions. Trainees salute and leave. A board on the wall reads 'Tae Kwon Do, 5 Dieu Tam Niem'. An instructor and student punch a bag as the trainees watch from the window. (Vietnam War period).
ARVN (Army of the Republic of Vietnam) Special Forces Training Center in Cam Ranh Bay, Vietnam. Trainees march along side of the highway. Trainees in fatigues and camouflage hats march with guns. Two wheelers pass by on the road. Trainees march through a field towards the training area. Trees on either side of the path. The trainees rest in the shade of a tree. (Vietnam War period).
ARVN (Army of the Republic of Vietnam) Special Forces Training Center in Cam Ranh Bay, Vietnam. An ARVN Special Forces instructor holds a class on Combat Reconnaissance Patrol. Trainees seated on bleachers under a shed. The instructor uses a black board for the session. The instructor in a helmet stands behind a lectern and takes the class. Written matter on the black board. Trainees seated under the shed listen to the instructor. (Vietnam War period).
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