TRAINING FOR EXERCISE CORAL SANDS II Part 2

Description

Summary: Approx. 450': Members of the 3d Battalion, 1st Infantry, 11th Infantry Brigade, train in preparation for the exercise to take place on the Island of Molokai on 1 Aug to 10 Aug 1967. MS, SFC Ernest M. Lau briefing troops who are seated stand prior to the swimming training. (Sync Sound) Cut-ins, soldiers listen. Soldiers of C Company wearing full field equipment jump into swimming pool from a 15-ft tower. Looking to men standing on opposite side of pool who help soldier out of the water. Soldiers on tower. A soldier jumps into pool. He floats, holds on to his helmet. Others jump. MS, PFC near pool makes introductory and ending statements about the training. (Sync Sound) Looking out over the pool from behind tower. A bather w/back to camera, in fg. Soldiers jump into the pool: tower (top of which is off screen). Net training. VS, Looking down on a landing craft on ground. Soldiers climb up and down net. A Sergeant on the platform oversees and encourages. Two soldiers check each other's equipment, then go down. Estab of landing craft on the ground alongside the high platform. The soldiers come down net. Soldiers in bleachers. SFC Lau briefs. Cut-ins, soldiers with full field equipment keeping afloat in the pool. A Soldier is helped out. A soldier checks wet life jacket . Another helps him on with it. LS (RV) soldiers lying on the ground, drying out. Others come in and join them. Soldier throws off life jacket, grabs his rifle. Another soldier puts on life jacket. Picture coverage, ordinary. Sound quality, sync & wild track, satisfactory. HELMET RADIO (4TH INF DIV).: Pleiku, South Vietnam: 08/05/1967: Approx. 200': Demonstration of the use of the helmet radio with men on patrol. VS, soldiers with PRR-9 receivers attached to helmets PRT-4 transmitters on their web gear walking along in woods. Soldier talks into PRT-4 as he walks. CUs, PRR-9s on helmets of soldiers. Soldiers take cover in brush. MCU, soldier with XM-148 grenade launcher talking over radio. Soldiers in brush talk over PRT-4s, Soldiers with helmet radios move out on patrol. CU, soldier speaks over radio.

Collection

Records of the Office of the Chief Signal Officer

Series

Motion Picture Films from the Army Library Copy Collection