PERIMETER DEFENSE, TAN SON NHUT AB, VIETNAM Reel 1 · Part 3

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Covers activities of Security Police (SP) in providing perimeter defense for the base. (Shot list to follow.) Reel 1, 631': ROLL: R30C-9X-781. 1) SP's withdrawing weapons at armory, and in formation. 2) Sign: SECURITY POLICE SQ. ARMORY. 87' ROLL: R30C-9X-968. 3) SP clearing M-60 machine gun in firing barrel. 4) SP withdrawing M-16 rifle with grenade launcher from armory. 5) SP returning M-16 rifle to armorer. 6) NCO reading orders to guard mount. 183' ROLL: R30C-9X-969. 7) Guard mount in formation, NCO talking to group, SP's getting into truck, arriving at bunker, and relieving those going off-duty. 8) Jeep with four SP's and M-60 machine gun leaving compound. 281' ROLL: R30C-9X-970. 9) NCO reading orders. 10) SP's putting gear in truck. 11) SP removing M-60 from truck and mounting gun on jeep. 369' ROLL: R30C-9X-1113. 12) SP in jeep scanning area as seen from moving jeep. 13) Jeep on perimeter road. 451' ROLL: R90C-9X-1114. 14) Interior of bunker. 15) Faces of SP's and muzzles of .50 caliber machine gun and M-60 machine gun. 16) SP in jeep scanning area, and bunkers and barbed wire as seen from moving jeep. 17) Hawk site. 558' ROLL: R30C-9X-1117. 18) Driver and gunners in V-100 armored car, and reflected view in side view mirror. 19) V-100 armored car and jeep on perimeter road. Reel 2, 286': ROLL: R30C-9X-1118. 1) Jeep driver leaving vehicle and checking Claymore mine. 2) Jeep on peimeter road and passing parked M-48 tanks. 3) V-100 armored car driving over camera. 86' ROLL: R30C-9X-1119. 4) Church near perimeter road. 5) Hawks on launchers. 6) SP's in bunker behind .50 caliber machine gun and M-60 machine gun. 187' ROLL R30C-9X-1208. 7) Vehicles entering gate. 8) Vietnamese Air Force sentries checking passes of drivers.

Collection

Records of U.S. Air Force Commands, Activities, and Organizations

Series

Moving Images Relating to Military Aviation Activities