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US Army Desert Training Facility, Fort Irwin, California

Reel Number: 220340-08

Color: Colour

Sound: SD

Year / Date: 1980s

Country: USA

Location: Fort Irwin, California,Mojave Desert

TC Begins: 04:34:20

TC Ends: 04:41:03

Duration: 00:06:43

US Army Desert Training Facility, Fort Irwin, California CU Officer to camera. Tanks & armored personnel carriers moving across desert. Opening teaser, Black in civilian clothes talks of ejecting from high altitdue; men running marathon. Montage combat training facility & activities in desert. POW in Vietnam. 04:35:03 Title: Air Force Now. 04:35:14 Black officer talks to camera. Helicopters take off at night, Fort Irwin National Training Center at dawn or sunset. Permanent Soviet style mechanized batallion. Troops in desert. Air crew walking to planes & boarding. Tank drives over camera. Air liaison officer in front of TV screen showing tanks; talks to camera. Tanks on desert. 04;36:51 Computer screen to track aircrafts. Tanks in desert, man on field phone. Maj. Roger Johnson briefing pilots w/ map. Desert training. Pilots into plane & boarding, taxiing 04:37:56 Pilot describes training missions. Bomber takes off (GOOD). Good shots tanks in desert, smoke generated. Bombers in flight. Helicopters. Ground to air guns target planes. Troops running, firing CUs. Tanks firing. Soldiers firing laser beams. 04:40:05 Interview Black & White soldiers. LS plane flying w/ cloud below over mountains. Aerial view of entire training center. Military Army; Air Force;

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