“ WAR AND ADVICE ” U.S. ARMY ADVISORS TRAINING ARMY OF THE REPUBLIC OF VIETNAM / ARVN XD33275

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Dating to 1964, "War and Advice" shows the role of U.S. Special Forces, who were engaged as observers and in military training duties with South Vietnamese troops, advising them in their fight against the Viet Cong.

02:01 General Paul D Hawkins, Commander of U.S. Military Assistance Command in Vietnam, speaks about the U.S. military mission to support the Army of the Republic of Vietnam (ARVN).
02:34 Communist guerrilla soldiers march through the jungle.
03:05 MAAG base (Military Assistance Advisory Group) where U.S. military advisors train the North Vietnamese in military tactics. A line of T-28 planes prepare to start engines. U.S. and Vietnamese naval officers enter a building. Army officers conference over a field map. Vietnamese soldiers board a U.S. UH-34D helicopter.
03:19 A U.S. Special Forces advisor teaches and drills Vietnamese peasants in basic village defense.
03:49 Woman and children of the Kra-Dai peoples in Zone D, a Viet Cong-dominated forest area 50 miles northeast of Saigon.
04:03 A U.S. military advisor trains Kra-Dai men to be soldiers. They learn to use a rifle. They build stockage-type fences and learn how to maintain 24-hour security.
04:34 Kra-Dai villagers respond to the call for volunteers, and sign up for service.
04:47 A Vietnamese man leads training of Kra-Dai men. Troops march.
05:11 A soldier trains on the use and kinds of deadly makeshift bombs and incendiary devices used by the Viet Cong.
05:25 U.S.-trained Vietnamese Rangers carry out drills, teach techniques and search, seizure and arrest tactics. Kra-Dai soldiers train in various exercises.
05:47 Through an interpreter, a U.S. Special Forces advisor offers advice and suggestions to the Vietnamese soldiers on how to properly carry their rifle.
06:41 A U.S. training soldier speaks Vietnamese to the soldiers, training them on use of the M1 carbine rifle.
07:22 Vietnamese soldiers work hand in hand with villagers building huts, laboring in the fields.
07:48 Highly trained U.S. Special Forces medics and Vietnamese soldiers administer medical aid to villagers.
08:04 U.S. advisors and Vietnamese soldiers lead engineering projects in remote mountain villages. Peasants carry water and wash clothes in moats with sharpened spikes.
08:49 A villager beats a large drum in a village square, sounding a practice alarm. Villagers run to their stations, soldiers run to their assigned posts, and students take cover. The alert drum sounds the all-clear and village life returns to normal.
09:44 A warning sign to Viet Cong states that they are no longer welcomed in the village.
09:53 Vietnamese soldiers head out on patrol through the jungle. Guerrilla warfare breaks out, fighting Viet Cong and taking prisoners.
11:27 A Viet Cong deserter is interviewed through a translator.
12:43 Vietnamese Rangers are trained to rappel down mountains, cross rope bridges, fight hand to hand combat, zip line across rivers.
13:15 American Air Commandos train Vietnamese pilots using an A-26 bomber.
13:31 A Vietnamese raiding party prepares supplies for a mission.
13:48 Vietnamese soldiers board U.S. H-21 Shawnee helicopters. They are transported for a the jungle and march to a farm. They surround enemy installations and attack, searching hay piles, underground, and tunnels. They capture prisoners.
16:42 Large scale conventional warfare exercise. Vietnamese soldiers leave transports along a dirt road, invade a wide plain under artillery fire. T-54 tanks barrel along dirt roads as Vietnamese paratroopers jump from a U.S. C-47. Ground troops guide an A-1 Skyraider to a target. Troops emerge from an M113 armored personnel carrier.
17:39 Vietnamese soldiers at communication equipment, operating telephones, switchboards, transmitters, and field radios.
17:58 U.S. and Vietnamese naval officers patrol off-shore in various boats, loading and firing canon.
18:22 Vietnamese marines land on shore as U.S. AT-6 trainers fly overhead. Warfare exercises continue as Vietnamese soldiers fight in the field against attacking aircraft. They rush beaches. A flame thrower destroys a bunker.
19:13 Montage of U.S. military advisors guiding and training Vietnamese soldiers as villagers go about daily living. Vietnamese soldiers in defensive position around a village.
19:51 END

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