Mobile Post Exchange (PX) Boosts Morale of U.S. Servicemen at Remote Posts in South Vietnam

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OF DEPARTMENT NEWSFILM RELEASE OFFICE OF ASSISTANT SECRETARY OF DEFENSE (PUBLIC AFFAIRS) UNITED AMERICA WASHINGTON, D.C. - 20301 STATES OF PLEASE NOTE DATE IMMEDIATE RELEASE January 29, 1969 OX 7-6161 Number: V-32-69 Footage 75 Time 2:05 room 2E 773 Filmed: Jan. 10, 1969 16mm color composite print MOBILE PX BOOSTS MORALE OF U.S. SERVICEMEN AT REMOTE POSTS IN SOUTH VIETNAM (Official Department of Defense motion picture film by the U. S. Marine Corps under the direction of the MAC V office of Information. Photography by SSgt. Stewart and Sgt. Melcher: Sound by Sgt. Murphy. To U. S. servicemen stationed in operational areas outside Saigon, mobile post exchange vans are a real morale booster. The mobile PX is on the road seven days a week, and is now servicing troops of the U. S. Army 82nd Airborne Division at their remote fire support base twice each week. On Tuesday and Friday, the PX trucks and armed escort vehicles roll into camp. One truck is a mobile canteen, offering hamburgers, hot dogs and cold soft drinks. Another truck, a virtual PX on wheels, carries such items as watches, tape recorders, record players and jewelry, in addition to necessities such as toothpaste and shaving cream. The mobile van has even added a barber shop, where troops can obtain professional haircuts at forty cents each. The Army and Air Force Exchange Service plans to add laundry and tailor services for the men of the 32nd Airborne soon. SCENE FOOTAGE VIDEO SEQUENCES AUDIO 13 (a) DA's Convoy trucks and jeeps Wild track 6 (b) Pan base camp to PX trucks 11 6 (c) Pan inside canteen truck, food, girl 11 16 (d) Soldiers purchase and eat hamburgers, etc. 11 3 (e) LS pan from canteen truck to PX truck 11 10 (F) Soldiers at PX truck, one with tape recorder 11 2 (g) Soldiers in front of barber shop 11 15 (h) Interior barber shop, men receive haircuts 11 4 (i) Pan Exchange Service emblem to PX sign. 11 NOTE TO EDITOR: 751 16mm color composite print released to ABC-TV, CBS-TV, NBC-TV, Fox Movietone, UPI-Newsfilm and a master and optical track to Deluxe Lab. EDITORS: PLEASE CREDIT DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE IN TITLE OR COMMENTARY. This is a "IV" series color composite print released to each individual DOD Pool member and is available commercially to non-pool members and other authorized agencies from Deluxe Laboratories, 850 Tenth Avenue, New York City, telephone CIrcle 7-3220.

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Records of the Office of the Chief Signal Officer

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Filmed News Releases