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stadium. Uh the ball doesn't carry as well because of the air currents here. But uh No, Steve, I don't think you understand the Air Force as a service. Well, uh the Union 76 station takes care of all the gas that you know when the people run out around. What do you think of the Air Force now? Well, about the same as I did a few minutes ago. How's that? That's really fine, Steve. That's just great. What's this got to do with standards? Actually, nothing. But let's get the title out of the way, then we'll get to standards. [Music] Nighttime is the right time for these AC130 gunships operating in Southeast Asia. They're equipped with special night observation devices which allow the crewmen to literally see in the dark. They can locate and track enemy vehicles and concentrate their 20mm and 40mm cannon fire on such targets even on the darkest nights. High standards in training pay off in job performance. Okay, that hit three low. There's a hit. Good. Okay. You got any more? That's a boat. You betcha. direct hit on tank one of target four. He's moving. Hit him right. [Music] Right on. Do we get him right under him? Bomb hit him. Hold hold your fire for a second here. General, could you uh without going through uh place name by place name, compare roughly the effect of the campaign now as to compare it to the campaign in 1967 and 1968? Well, I don't think I can really compare two campaigns because uh really the uh effectiveness of air power has to do as how it's applied uh for the national objectives and and limitations of US policy. Uh I can compare the day-to-day capabilities. However, uh the day-to-day capabilities today versus uh in the previous campaign are greatly uh improved because of the improvements in the weaponry itself. The gu the guided bombs obviously have a great uh increase in effectiveness uh because of the improvement in the aircraft and the aircraft systems, the uh the navigational uh aids, the onboard electronics, the electronic countermeasures. Uh and also our training has got to be better than it was uh uh at that point in time because we have the experience of the previous campaign on which to base our training. Why are your aircraft losses running so low this time compared to what they were in 6768? I think that a lot of it has to do with the very things that I just mentioned, the electronic counter measures, improvements in our tactics based on experience. Fighter pilots, a group of men who require no explanation of the value of standards in the operational air force. A finite membership who offer is their motto to fly and to fight. And don't you forget it. What we did 25 years ago, Bill, is uh really means nothing to the youth of today. I suppose world has been. But to you and me, it can never be repeated. And I frankly don't ever want to go through it again. Do you? No. No. I had enough. The crew chief's value to the pilot is just unbelievable. I probably wouldn't be here if it weren't for Bill cuz he's the guy that worked on the airplane and the engine night after night after night so I could take it out and, you know, be a big hero the next day. I'm Lieutenant Dick Marorrow, an F100 pilot with the Missouri Air National Guard. Today I have the honor of speaking with Colonel Eric Hartman of Germany, the world's greatest fighter race with 352 air victories. A married man with five kids are sitting in. You see only the airplane and it's a sport and a sportly feeling and uh we shouldn't say today this or this type of aircraft is better than the other one. It depends what kind of pilot is sitting in. And say that the uh as far as the B7 is concerned, he didn't have any problem. But the problem was B29. Well, I don't know for sure. I saw the first jet at Magnabberg in 44. We chased him a lot, but we never could catch him. After the war, when you were captured or imprisoned by the Russians, you spent 10 years there. Yes. That's a long time in a Russian prison camp, isn't it? That's a very long time. Not only in a Russian prison camp, it could be a long time in American or in a German or somewhere camp. That is a lost life. The only thing what you keep that you get through healthy such kind of time is that you have a good family at home or that you are very graceful belief in God or you are a fanatically uh nationalist that you believe to your Indeed, Fred Fuger. They said, "You just made yourself a real life union hero." You did. That's very funny. Because when I saw Captain Cushing lying there like that, the only thing I was trying to make myself was alive. But yesterday, when I felt that hard attack working its way back up my throat, and I did what I'd done, and they tell me I done it because of my training and drilling and discipline. Well, I'm grateful. No, I I mean I'm grateful. Well, let him talk about standards and duty and such, but Well, I'm just glad to be here, that's all. [Music] [Music] If our smith should ever weight this sword properly, that to me would be the greatest single accomplishment of the American Revolution. Your question is one of military standards, a question which weighs heavily upon the mind of every officer in the revolutionary army. Oftenimes I feel we have more than I do of precostity in even using the name of army. Our uniforms range from the buckskin to the butcher's frock. Our weapons from musketss to the pitchforks of our landowners. And yet must we not uphold the same high military standards in which our punicious cousins, the British, have been so well trained and drilled? What is it that separates us from our oppressors? I was born in Sussex. I speak the same tongue and I eat the same food. Is it not then a paradox that this infantile country survival depends so entirely upon the simultaneous proliferation of two conflicting standards? As citizens, we preach a system of democracy ruled by the people for the people. Yet, as soldiers, we must live by basically the same standards which every army before us has been pledged to uphold. Exactly how does one arrive at a majority approved consensus? Who will brave the British onslaught and who will turn tail at the first sight of the crimson? But when the cannon war grows deafening, either this American army will learn to respond without question, or this American country will redevelop their taste for jin and the Union Jack. 3510 and 30-1, a listing of Air Force standards. The contents of these books weren't written last week. They represent a 200-year evolution of the American military. Now, these aren't haircut books, and they're not shoe shine books. They are an attempt to express some of the standards and ideals by which we all live, the right of petition, physical conditioning, the accessibility of commanders to their men, equal opportunity, judicial equality. Now, these particular standards are military, but every day we're all affected by standards in every corner of our society. There's a lot to these, and it'd be worth your while to look into them. Incidentally, you're probably wearing a standard on your wrist right now. [Music] [Music] Oh, heat. Hey. Hey. [Music] 50 years ago, international bicycle racing was dominated by American cyclists. A trio of Air Force athletes is presently trying to reinstate this country as a leading contender and at the same time are working towards nothing less than the 72 Olympics. Uh, my name is Bill Guazo. I'm a sergeant from Westover Air Force Base in Massachusetts and I'm electronics warfare technician. I'm Lieutenant Larry Swatner. I'm a pilot at Mather Air Force Base flying T29s. Lieutenant Doug Bernett also fly T29s, Mather Air Force Base. The chairman of the Olympic Committee was kind enough to write us letters of recommendation to uh our squadron commanders and to headquarters of the Air Force. In pilot training, we we'd fly formations of four, you know, wing tip to wing tip at 600 m an hour. And on a bicycle, we're elbow to elbow at uh anywhere to 60 m an hour. I can get anywhere on just about any air force base faster riding my bicycle than people can in their cars. Of course, I run a few stop signs and it's it's really it's it's quite easy to sit back and eat your strawberry shortcake and smoke your cigarettes and you know what your body doing to you. You can still go do things like that, but if unless you get some exercise to burn some of that stuff off, it's it's just cutting time off your life. That's all there is to it. I don't really have to worry about things like Arabics, but if someone did something like just riding to work every day, they wouldn't have to worry about Arabics too much either. It's really an exciting, incredible thing. Not so much that you can maybe win a medal yourself just to be there with all these other fantastic athletes. [Music] In mid-March of 1972, a disaster struck the Pora River Basin in Peru that will never be forgotten by the local inhabitants. A combination of unusually heavy rains and an earthquake caused extensive damage to the land areas. On March 25th, the United States Embassy in Lima asked the Air Force Southern Command for assistance. By April 3rd, Air Force C130s and two twin Hueies from Howard Air Force Base in the canal zone had carried 244,000 lbs of food, fuel, clothing, and medical supplies to the twin cities of Ant and Piora. [Music] What goes up must come down. Hi, my name is Sammy Davis Jr. I just had one of the most thrilling experiences of my life. Recently, I had the good fortune to go to Vietnam with my entire show, entertain some of my brothers and my good cousins who are over there, wanting desperately to come home, I might add. But while they're there, man, and taking care of business, as we say, it's so funny about show business. One does a lot of shows, have been in show business as long as I have. I've been in it over 40 years, but I can never remember having a greater audience in my life. It wasn't so much the applause or the the natural enthusiasm that they had for the entire show. It was just shaking hands with a cat saying right on a peace baby. Sometimes just looking at a guy's face and knowing that he was saying in a thousand different ways, "Hey man, thank you for coming over." I hope you bear in mind that there are a couple of things that you just can't put down on film. No matter how good the crew is, you can't put down the heart, the soul. Certain feelings like we all receive feelings. I guess that we weren't considered strangers or visitors. We were considered family and friends. Each and every one of the cats treated us that way. It was nice rapping with the guys. It was nice being there. But like I say all the time, I hope that if I'm ever asked to go, I think everybody knows I'll go again. But as I was about to say, I hope that I hope I never have to go back to NA. I hope there will be nobody there at all for me to entertain or to rap with. I hope everybody will be home. When you think about the show, think about peace. Peace, love, togetherness. peace and love togetherness, man. And that's what it's all about. In the final analysis, the major immediate goal of our foreign policy is to bring an end to the war in Vietnam in a way that our generation will be remembered not so much as the generation that suffered in war, but more for the fact that we had the courage and character to win the kind of a just peace that the next generation was able to keep. Heat. 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