Vietnam War - Color, 1965: American Ranger Adviser of MACV (Team 40) at Vietnamese Ranger Training Center. 14Oct65

NOTE: to order see: www.footagefarm.co.uk or contact us at: Info@Footagefarm.co.uk Vietnam War - Color, 1965: American Advisers at Vietnamese Ranger Training Center. 14Oct65 Slate: 14Oct65, Camera: Goddard. Entrance sign: "Biet Dong Quan" (Ranger Kill) pan to pairs of Viet Ranger trainees going thru motions of hand-to-hand combat in mud. 19:02:39 Two Vietnamese trainees in judo exercise in sand pit as others look on. Viet officer & American adviser in Special Forces red berets talking. 19:03:29 Training patrol wearing branches of leaves for camouflage, listen to briefing in front of large map. MS & MCU: Captain Samuel W Smith, US Adviser, Major William T Thompson, chief adviser, RCT; and a Viet officer watch. 19:03:56 Patrol leaves, Thompson, Smith & Viet officer walk alongside; arrive at site where first problem will be worked on, go behind shrubs & watch. 19:04:54 3 men of patrol come upon a Viet soldier, flat on back, supposedly wounded. Trainees look at injuries. Trainers arrive & advise; man is carried off as others arrive & pass by. Patrol moving ahead of advisers. Seen from several angles. Run into brush; 2 soldiers near a tree, one directed by patrol leader & finds a simulated dead Vietcong. Another soldier covers area while the first soldier attaches wire to the dead man's weapon. Wire is pulled & explodes an imitation booby trap. 19:07:55 Patrol is startled by a planned ambush in dense woods. Dummies drop from trees. The men swing wildly at the dummies. Patrol continues over jungle path. 19:08:56 Slate: High angle / HA Outdoor class listens to Viet officer beside river bank. Captain Robert W McKee in red beret observes as Viet soldier climbs ladder to platform in tree & crawls out on rope; drops into water. Class & advisors watch. NOTE: to order see: www.footagefarm.co.uk or contact us at: Info@Footagefarm.co.uk