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Go to HomepageReel Number: 220430-02
Color: Colour
Sound: SD
Year / Date: 1970s
Country: USA,Vietnam
Location: Moody AFB, Georgia,Travis AFB
TC Begins: 00:08:01
TC Ends: 00:26:18
Duration: 00:18:17
Air Force Now (SAC - Looking Glass Mission; AF Family Support Centers; Survival Training) Air Force Chief of Staff General Lou Allen Jr. interviewed re quality of life for Air Force personnel. 00:08:50 Title: Air Force Now. Military airport activities; guard on tarmac; crew climbing aboard plane, in cockpit of EC-135 SAC Command Post (Looking Glass) of 55th Stategic Reconnaisance Wing. Rear of plane w/ control room w/ technicians, high tech screens & dials. 00:10:46 Underground Command Post w/ people working & map. EC-135 in flight, crew at work. 00:11:16 Minuteman Missile fired from underground silo. CU of Classified Command Interlock buttons. Men in plane. Men on ground board plane; man in plane grabs book titled Emergency War Order, flips switches. Phone call re ready to take off. Flashing radios buttons, typing on keyboard. Airborne Emergency Action 00:12:22 Officer Louis Buckman boards to take over command (staged) & talking with crew for briefing. Maintenance staff on ground. EC-135 taxies & takes off. Buckman speaks to camera about mission of Looking Glass that’s been going for 21 years. Plane taxies, takes off over camera (GOOD). NOTE: Contains many dials, screens, flashing buttons and high-tech imagery. Looking Glass was deactivated 01Jun92. Air Force Chief of Staff General Lou Allen Jr. interviewed re war capability. 00:15:17 Montage servicemen & family life. Housewife; kids playing; children hug military dads; trampoline; children w/ mother; Japanese restaurant. 347th Tactical Support Center Program. Woman at early computer. Moody AFB Centre director talks re helping black woman find job - seen working w/ Down Syndrome child. 00:16:57 Moody AFB entrance guard post. Women on phone w/ husbands. Premarital counselling w/ chaplain & couple in uniform. Pan--Asian wives program language training - English lesson. 00:17:48 Col. at Travis AFB talks to camera. Base street, sign & Ext. of Travis Family Support Center.Language class using flashcards. Women’s group. Woman explains role of Support Center. Meeting. Wounded into ambulance. 00:19:39 Cutting ribbon. GOOD. AF Chief of Staff General Lou Allen Jr. re improving AF employees, more high quality, flexible, dedicated, etc. 00:20:44 CU barbed wire w/ threads on barb. Col. Jim Berger - Vietnam prisoner of war (POW), walks in snow; talks to camera. Hand in leather glove onto barbed wire, talks of will to survive. Feet thru woods, POV. Chief Master Sgt. Doug Morrell, 3 times shot down & combat cameraman in woods. MCU camp fire burning, instructor talks to students, Fairchild AFB, Washington about air crew survival & controlling fear & stresses. 00:23:07 MCU Morell thru woods, staggering & looking about. POV. (GOOD) Classroom lecture intercut w/ CU POV Morrell walking. Training in snow in woods w/ map. Morrell thru heavy grass. Men assemble tent from parachute in snow. Cut to Morrell down in swamp grass getting out radio. Training leader talks about radio use to call in helicopter rescuers. POV from helicopter above forest. CU compass. Valley from helicopter. Morrell w/ compass & radio. Helicopter down to rescue. Training group calling in rescuer. Morrell winched aboard helicopter w/ CUs of guy on winch in doorway & helicopter leaving. CU barbed wire & hand of Berger, mcu looking. Military Support Groups; Survival School; Lecturing; Cold War; VERY GOOD quality. NOTE: Any 9 continuous minutes priced as one reel.