Aerobic physical fitness exercises and its benefits in the United States. Personnel run in eight minute mile. They exercise calisthenic. A personnel exercises and a doctor administers tests for air force laboratory. A man runs a mile in less than 10 minutes shows good physical condition. A man runs a mile in more than 12 minutes shows poor physical condition. Clinical studies of physical fitness. People of age between 30 to 34 years, should run 1.5 mile in 12.5 minutes. People of age between 35 to 39 years should run 1.5 mile in 13 minutes and age between 40 to 44 years should run 1.5 mile in 13.5 minutes. The time for age between 45 to 49 years is 14 minutes and for the age over 50 years is 14.5 minutes.
United States Air Force (USAF) Aerobic physical fitness programs and its benefits in the United States. An AF personnel reads manual for administering the programs. Commanders discuss for conducting physical fitness programs. Booklet of 'USAF Aerobics' is read. It instructs how to achieve high level of physical fitness. A man runs. 'Starter' table of physical exercise showing week schedule including time goal and points of week. USAF physical fitness programs are conducted. Personnel swim in swimming pool and do cycling. Aerobic personnel progress chart of John D. Jones is shown. Personnel run as training begins.
United States Air Force (USAF) Aerobic physical fitness programs and its benefits in the United States. A doctor examines air force personnel. He checks blood pressure and weight of the personnel. Commanders evaluate performances of personnel as they run on ways. They test the level of physical fitness of personnel. Personnel run on suitable roads for running. In bad weather, performance is evaluated by stationary running.
United States Air Force (USAF) Aerobic physical fitness programs and its benefits in the United States. Scenes of people doing water skiing, surfing, swimming, mountaineering and rock climbing. John F Kennedy's statement: 'Physical fitness is the most important key of helping body it is the basis of dynamic, creative and intellectual activities'. Personnel climb up and sit atop mountains. General John Dale Ryan, Chief of Staff of U.S. Air Force speaks about that USAF consists people and equipment to evaluate the performance of personnel and conducts aerobic physical fitness programs. He closes with a request that all air force personnel should participate in the program for world wide mission requirements.
Bundeswehr military exercise near Fulda, Germany. Camouflaged trucks loaded with soldiers move over cobblestone streets. Buildings on either side of the streets. German officers discuss the exercise with civilian officials. M-41 tanks loaded with soldiers advance along a road. A camouflaged tank moves through woods. Soldiers haul artillery. They load and fire artillery at edge of woods. Civilian officials observe from position in background. German soldier fires a mortar. German infantry take up positions on a grassy bluff. One fires a machine gun. No national markings of any kind appear on the weapons or equipment.
(Clip opens with a brief view of a "color girl" or "china girl" for color television calibration.) Military and commercial aircraft land and take off from Da Nang Air Base in Vietnam. An F-4E Phantom takes off from the runway. A Volpar Beechcraft Model 18 takes off. A C-130A Hercules and an O-2A Skymaster land and taxi on the runway. OV-10A Bronco, T-39A Sabreliner and O-1E Bird Dog take off from the Da Nang Air Base runway. C-123K Provider taxis on landing.