Film opens showing an intermediate munitions handling facility near a seaport in Thailand. Trucks are lined up on the roadside, next to huge earthen berms. U.S. Airmen ride in the back of an open truck leaving the site, transporting crates of Mk 82 bombs to munitions storage facility at U-Tapao Royal Air Force Base in Thailand. Thai workers stand in a group, conversing, near a corrugated metal shelter at the side of the road, and watch as the truck disappears from view in the distance. Scene shifts to closeup of the U.S. Air Force truck driver in his cab, talking on a walkie talkie radio. As he talks, the truck passes large numbers of munitions stockpiled outdoors between earthen berms. View from the truck cab as it passes tractor trailer trucks and fork lifts operating in the area. Rearward view from the moving truck. View, from left side of the moving truck, shows red markers at the edge of each earthen revetment separating adjacent storage areas. Some such areas are empty. Next, the moving truck passes a mobile crane hooking up to bombs on the back of a flat bed truck. A team of Air Force munitions handlers is involved, including one moving bombs on a fork lift.
Munition operations at U-Tapao Royal Thai Air Force Base in Thailand. Closeup of U.S. Air Force munitions handlers and Thai assistants installing fuzes in bodies and noses of M82 bombs on a flat bed truck in a bomb assembly area of U-Tapao Royal Thai Air Force Base in Thailand. When they finish the driver climbs into the truck cab. Closeup of writing on truck door reading: "U.S. Air Force, 67B 1362, For Oficial Use Only." It pulls out of the assembly bay. Closeup of driver speaking on mobile telephone in the truck, as he drives.
U-Tapao Royal Thai Navy Airfield, Thailand. Lieutenant Colonel Joseph M Valenti, Commander of the 618th Military Airlift Support Squadron, is asked about U.S. Air Force Airlift operations. He is seated in an easy chair, with a photograph of a C-5 aircraft on the wall behind him. The Colonel speaks about the C-5 as part of the Air Force strategic airlift fleet comprising C-5s, C-141s and the CRAF (Civil Reserve Airlift Fleet). Asked about the impact of the C-5, he mentions the variety of military equipment it is capable of carrying worldwide. He mentions how C-5s and C-141 aircraft were able to move a complete U.S. Air Force Tactical Fighter Wing to Thailand in 9 days.He contrasts that to more than a month required for a similar move during the Korean war.
Pilots view from cockpit during landing of an aircraft at Chiang Mai Air Base in Thailand. Plane flies over fields in Thailand as it approaches runway number 36 at Chiang Mai AB . It taxis along the runway after landing.
An aircraft flies over muddy fields in Thailand as it approaches the runway at Nakhon Phanom Air Base in Thailand. It lands on runway number 15 and taxis along the runway after landing. Water along the sides of the runway.
Korat air base in Thailand. Aerial view of the Korat air base and the surrounding area in Thailand. Air base amidst lush green area. Buildings at the air base. Numerous 450 gallon fuel tanks lined up in open storage. Loading area and flight line at the air base. Republic F105D aircraft of the 44th and 469th Tactical Fighter Squadrons parked on the ramps.