United States Army, 1970s

Genre: Commercial

Year Published: 1970s

Creator: United States Army D'Arcy Masius Benton & Bowles (DMB&B)

Format: 16mm

Description: Transcription: (soldiers talking) 0:03 (engines rumbling) - Lieutenant! 0:08 Soldier Company! 0:10 - Attention! 0:11 Forward! 0:15 (boots tramping) 0:18 (soldiers chanting) 0:22 (chanting continues) 0:30 Soldiers One! Two! Three! Four! 0:34 One, two, three, four! 0:39 One, two, three, four! One, two, three, four! 0:42 Instructor One, two, three, four! 0:45 Soldiers One, two, three, four! 0:47 Instructor One, two, three, four! 0:50 Soldiers One, two, three, four! 0:53 Instructor Here we go! 0:55 Soldiers Here we go! Instructor Up the hill! 0:57 Soldiers Up the hill! - The army isn't going to hell. 0:58 I think we probably bottomed out. 0:59 We've been there, and we're coming up now. 1:01 - At one time, there was a... 1:02 I could have made it through two years of the army, 1:05 but I can't make it now. 1:07 - If a man thinks he's got a problem, 1:08 he's got a problem. 1:11 (boots tramping) 1:12 - Well, yes. I think there's a lot of challenge in the army. 1:17 - You work on a group basis, like cows. 1:19 They'll take a bunch of cows, and... 1:22 Instead of human beings, they'll take a bunch of cows 1:24 and herd them here, herd them there. 1:26 - Say your folks come down on the weekend to visit you. 1:28 You're not going to bring your mom out here 1:30 to show her where you live. 1:31 Soldier I never bring my mom here. 1:32 - You wouldn't bring your mama. 1:34 You wouldn't bring your dog out here, man. 1:35 Soldiers One rolled over to the other and said: 1:36 Instructor The man I marry has got to be 1:39 Soldiers The man I marry has got to be 1:42 Instructor an airborne ranger with the CID. 1:45 Soldiers an airborne ranger with the CID. 1:47 - I'd say one of the army's greatest problems right now 1:49 is what everyone's talking about: the generation gap. 1:51 - There's nothing wrong with him. 1:54 I'm having the same problem with my son. 1:56 - We came back from a field trip 1:57 and Steve's bed was turned upside down 2:00 with the spring on top of the mattress, 2:03 and two drawers were ripped out of our desk. 2:05 - You'd tell a man to do something and he wouldn't do it. 2:06 You'd take him out behind the back 2:09 and kick the shit out of him or something like that. 2:11 And he'd respect you for it. 2:13 - I mean, a lot of these guys would love 2:14 to go back to the brown boot army. 2:16 We can't accomplish anything. 2:18 You have to let a man get out and perform to his ability. 2:20 (boots tramping) 2:22 Instructor One, two, three, four! 2:24 Soldiers One, two, three, four! 2:26 Instructor One, two, three, four! 2:27 Soldiers One, two, three, four! 2:28 Instructor Break it on down! 2:30 - I drive a garbage truck and kill rats. 2:31 That's part of my job. 2:33 - Yes, I believe it's very good 2:34 that the American army is in Germany. 2:36 And I myself, I owe my life to the American army, 2:39 because when I came here after the war, I starved. 2:42 And so I worked with the American army 2:46 and I got something to eat. 2:48 - Oh, everybody from all over the states 2:51 gets together in the barracks 2:53 and sits down, smokes dope, 2:54 and says how the shitty the army is. 2:57 - I feel that I can contribute many things 2:58 to this great cause. 3:01 I think the army is a great cause. 3:02 (boots tramping) 3:04 - Every once in a while, you run into Daisy. 3:08 You think, "He ain't going to live." (sniggers) 3:10 - Man, too many people telling you what to do. 3:12 Somebody tells you to do something 3:14 and then somebody else comes up 3:15 and tells you to do it a different way. 3:16 - The NCO doesn't want to be left out. 3:17 He just don't want to be the person 3:20 that takes the order and tells what has to be done. 3:21 - You're treated like a child. 3:25 They expect you to act like a child and think like a child. 3:26 (boots tramping) 3:29 Instructor Colonel, colonel, can't you see? 3:31 Soldiers Colonel, colonel, can't you see? 3:33 - There's no meaning for the EM, 3:36 for us at all in our job. 3:38 - If I can make it in Uncle Sam's army, 3:39 I can make it out there. 3:41 - It seems like sometimes they want to make you a housewife. 3:42 - I think a lot of people are just bored 3:45 and a little frustrated with the army, 3:47 because they're not doing what they know. 3:48 - Yeah, blow it up and start all over again. 3:51 - We cannot afford to have unsatisfied people 3:53 in the United States Army. 3:57 - Back in the old army days, we had more discipline. 3:58 Nowadays, discipline is almost out. 4:03 - Take the army back to were it used to be, 4:05 the brown boot army, 4:07 and you won't even have an army anymore. 4:07 Instructor Over the hill! 4:09 Soldiers Over the hill! Instructor Down the hill! 4:10 Soldiers Down the hill! - Around the hill! 4:12 - Around the hill! - I think talking with troops is really the only way 4:13 that you can actually find out what they're thinking 4:16 and find out what's going on. 4:19 (soldiers shouting) 4:21 - Well, at one time, I was going to get out. 4:24 But now, I'd really like to stick around, 4:26 just to see the changes come about. 4:29 - I think we've got to realize that society's different too. 4:30 Soldier All right, sir? 4:32 - Airborne. These guys that we work with, 4:36 they're about the same as you're going to find 4:37 back on the block and in the states. 4:39 But you know, it's a time when people question things. 4:42 You just can't tell somebody to do it 4:46 and have them do it in every instance. 4:48 So society's changing, and the army's got to change. 4:50 We've got to come up with some new ways 4:54 to get people to be interested 4:56 in the kinds of things that the army does. 4:58 And adventure training is the kind of thing 5:01 that challenges your manhood. 5:03 Well, we've been doing that here, 5:05 and I think that we've struck a spark 5:07 in some of these young men. 5:09 They're getting interested in the army, 5:10 where they never have been before. 5:13 And we're trying to change the army, 5:15 so that we take the mop away from the soldier 5:17 and replace it with that rifle. 5:20 Well, we've had some people go down a major river here 5:22 in rubber boats. 5:25 A lot of barge traffic on that river. 5:26 One of the things that they did 5:28 was meet a friendly partisan. 5:29 He takes their boats and hides them, 5:31 and then they go on off to recon a position, check it out. 5:34 See if this old building would be suitable 5:40 for an observation post or headquarters of some kind. 5:42 (steam whistle blows) 6:00 (horns blow) 6:04 I think you're going to see a new spirit, 6:24 a new interest in everything about the army. 6:26 (soldiers talking) 6:29 Soldier You're not racing. 6:32 It doesn't make no difference who goes over there first. 6:33 (soldier shouts instructions) 6:36 - Back in civilian life, 6:45 I used to always like to try things 6:46 that was a challenge to me. 6:48 And I think these ropes here are a challenge to me. 6:51 I want to climb them. 6:54 - It's hard, man. It's really tough. 6:55 (soldiers shouting) 6:58 (instructor speaking) 7:02 So I joined the army. 7:11 I knew it was going to be tough, 7:12 but I didn't think it was going to be this damn tough. 7:13 But it's good though. 7:15 I heard a note about some drill sergeant 7:16 who was supposed to smile every now and then, 7:18 but I wouldn't want a drill sergeant to smile, 7:20 because he wouldn't be a drill sergeant then. 7:22 Basically, it's tough. 7:23 It makes a man out of you. It makes you feel good. 7:25 Just like this long run here. It's about two miles. 7:26 Soldier Two and a half miles. 7:29 - Two and a half miles. 7:30 We didn't stop. 7:31 We wanted to stop. We don't know what made us keep going. 7:32 But we did keep running. We didn't stop until he said so. 7:36 - We don't let anybody fall behind. 7:39 - I don't say they should be afraid of me, 7:40 as long as they do what I tell them to do. 7:42 Because, number one, we're both human. 7:44 I'm here to teach them. 7:47 Not to make them afraid of me, 7:48 but to teach them the basic knowledge they need 7:51 of basic training with the army. 7:53 And I feel that no man should be afraid of me. 7:55 I don't want him to be afraid of me. 7:58 - He treats us like respectable young men. 7:59 We should treat him with the same respect. 8:01 - Tell him to do something. Show him how to do it. 8:03 Tell him how to do it. Show him how to do it. 8:07 And if possible, do it for him for the first time. 8:09 - You can go to Sergeant Pete, tell him your problems, 8:14 just like your own dad. 8:17 He sat down 8:18 and he's helping me get my high school education. 8:19 (soldiers chuckle) 8:21 Soldier Even tucks you in bed! 8:23 (soldiers chuckle) 8:24 (rifles fire) 8:25 - A lot of times, 8:28 our company commander would double time with us. 8:29 Like go to the ranges. And- 8:31 (tape sticks) 8:33 (tape restarts) 8:45 You're losing your breath or something, 8:46 and you think, "Hell, the CO can do it. I can do it." 8:47 (rifles fire) 8:52 (tape rewinds) 9:02 (rewinding continues) 9:06 (rewinding continues) 9:33 (rewinding continues) 10:02 (soldiers talking) 10:43 (engines rumbling) - Lieutenant! 10:49 Soldier Company! 10:50 - Attention! 10:51 Forward! 10:55 Soldier Double time, let's go! 10:59 (boots tramping) 11:00 (soldiers chanting) 11:03 (chanting continues) 11:09 Soldiers One! Two! Three! Four! 11:14 One, two, three, four! 11:19 One, two, three, four! One, two, three, four! 11:22 Instructor One, two, three, four! 11:25 Soldiers One, two, three, four! 11:28 Instructor One, two, three, four! 11:30 Soldiers One, two, three, four! 11:33 Instructor Here we go! 11:35 Soldiers Here we go! Instructor Up the hill! 11:37 Soldiers Up the hill! - The army isn't going to hell. 11:38 I think we probably bottomed out. 11:39 We've been there, and we're coming up now. 11:41 - At one time, there was a... 11:43 I could have made it through two years of the army, 11:45 but I can't make it now. 11:47 - If a man thinks he's got a problem, 11:49 he's got a problem. 11:51 (boots tramping) 11:52 - Well, yes. I think there's a lot of challenge in the army. 11:57 - You work on a group basis, like cows. 11:59 They'll take a bunch of cows, and... 12:02 Instead of human beings, they'll take a bunch of cows 12:04 and herd them here, herd them there. 12:06 - Say your folks come down on the weekend to visit you. 12:08 You're not going to bring your mom out here 12:10 to show her where you live. 12:12 Soldier I never bring my mom here. 12:13 - You wouldn't bring your mama. 12:14 You wouldn't bring your dog out here, man. 12:15 Soldiers One rolled over to the other and said: 12:16 Instructor The man I marry has got to be 12:19 Soldiers The man I marry has got to be 12:22 Instructor an airborne ranger with the CID. 12:25 Soldiers an airborne ranger with the CID. 12:27 - I'd say one of the army's greatest problems right now 12:30 is what everyone's talking about: the generation gap. 12:32 - There's nothing wrong with them. 12:34 I'm having the same problem with my son. 12:36 - We came back from a field trip 12:37 and Steve's bed was turned upside down 12:40 with the spring on top of the mattress, 12:42 and two drawers were ripped out of our desk. 12:45 - You'd tell a man to do something and he wouldn't do it. 12:47 You'd take him out behind the back 12:49 and kick the shit out of him or something like that. 12:51 And he'd respect you for it. 12:53 - I mean, a lot of these guys would love 12:54 to go back to the brown boot army. 12:57 We can't accomplish anything. 12:58 You have to let a man get out and perform to his ability. 13:00 (boots tramping) 13:03 Instructor One, two, three, four! 13:05 Soldiers One, two, three, four! 13:06 Instructor One, two, three, four! 13:07 Soldiers One, two, three, four! 13:09 Instructor Break it on down! 13:10 - I drive a garbage truck and kill rats. 13:11 That's part of my job. 13:14 - Yes, I believe it's very good 13:15 that the American army is in Germany. 13:16 And I myself, I owe my life to the American army, 13:18 because when I came here after the war, I starved. 13:22 And so I worked with the American army 13:26 and I got something to eat. 13:28 - Oh, everybody from all over the states 13:31 gets together in the barracks 13:33 and sits down, smokes dope, 13:35 and says how the shitty the army is. 13:37 - I feel that I can contribute many things 13:39 to this great cause. 13:42 I think the army is a great cause. 13:43 (boots tramping) 13:44 - Every once in a while, you run into Daisy. 13:49 You think, "He ain't going to live." (sniggers) 13:51 - Man, too many people telling you what to do. 13:53 Somebody tells you to do something 13:54 and then somebody else comes up 13:56 and tells you to do it a different way. 13:57 - The NCO doesn't want to be left out. 13:57 He just don't want to be the person 14:00 that takes the order and tells what has to be done. 14:02 - You're treated like a child. 14:05 They expect you to act like a child and think like a child. 14:06 (boots tramping) 14:10 Instructor Colonel, colonel, can't you see? 14:11 Soldiers Colonel, colonel, can't you see? 14:14 - There's no meaning for the EM, 14:16 for us at all in our job. 14:18 - If I can make it in Uncle Sam's army, 14:20 I can make it out there. 14:21 - It seems like sometimes they want to make you a housewife. 14:23 - I think a lot of people are just bored 14:25 and a little frustrated with the army, 14:27 because they're not doing what they know. 14:28 - Yeah, blow it up and start all over again. 14:32 - We cannot afford to have unsatisfied people 14:34 in the United States Army. 14:37 - Back in the old army days, we had more discipline. 14:38 Nowadays, discipline is almost out. 14:43 - Take the army back to were it used to be, 14:45 the brown boot army, 14:47 and you won't even have an army anymore. 14:48 Instructor Over the hill! 14:49 Soldiers Over the hill! Instructor Down the hill! 14:50 Soldiers Down the hill! - Around the hill! 14:52 - Around the hill! - I think talking with troops is really the only way 14:53 that you can actually find out what they're thinking 14:56 and find out what's going on. 14:59 (soldiers chanting) 15:00 - Well, at one time, I was going to get out. 15:04 But now, I'd really like to stick around. 15:07 Just to see the changes come about. 15:09 - I think we've got to realize that society's different too. 15:11 Soldier All right, sir? 15:13 - Airborne. These guys that we work with, 15:16 they're about the same as you're going to find 15:18 back on the block and in the states. 15:19 But you know, it's a time when people question things. 15:23 You just can't tell somebody to do it 15:26 and have them do it in every instance. 15:28 So society's changing, and the army's got to change. 15:30 We've got to come up with some new ways 15:35 to get people to be interested 15:36 in the kinds of things that the army does. 15:38 And adventure training is the kind of thing 15:41 that challenges your manhood. 15:44 Well, we've been doing that here, 15:45 and I think that we've struck a spark 15:47 in some of these young men. 15:49 They're getting interested in the army, 15:51 where they never have been before. 15:53 And we're trying to change the army, 15:56 so that we take the mop away from the soldier 15:57 and replace it with that rifle. 16:00 Well, we've had some people go down a major river here 16:02 in rubber boats. 16:05 A lot of barge traffic on that river. 16:06 One of the things that they did 16:08 was meet a friendly partisan. 16:09 He takes their boats and hides them, 16:11 and then they go on off to recon a position, check it out. 16:15 See if this old building would be suitable 16:20 for an observation post or headquarters of some kind. 16:22 (steam whistle blows) 16:40 (steam whistle blows) 16:44 (steam whistle blows) 16:54 I think you're going to see a new spirit, 17:04 a new interest in everything about the army. 17:06 (soldiers talking) 17:10 Soldier You're not racing. 17:12 It doesn't make no difference who goes over there first. 17:13 (soldier shouts instructions) 17:16 - Back in civilian life, 17:25 I used to always like to try things 17:26 that was a challenge to me. 17:28 And I think these ropes here are a challenge to me. 17:32 I want to climb them. 17:34 - It's hard, man. It's really tough. 17:35 (soldiers shouting) 17:38 (instructor speaking) 17:42 So I joined the army. 17:51 I knew it was going to be tough, 17:52 but I didn't think it was going to be this damn tough. 17:53 But it's good though. 17:55 I heard a note about some drill sergeant 17:56 who was supposed to smile every now and then, 17:58 but I wouldn't want a drill sergeant to smile, 18:00 because he wouldn't be a drill sergeant then. 18:02 Basically, it's tough. 18:04 It makes a man out of you. It makes you feel good. 18:05 Just like this long run here. It's about two miles. 18:07 Soldier Two and a half miles. 18:09 - Two and a half miles. 18:10 We didn't stop. 18:12 We wanted to stop. We don't know what made us keep going. 18:12 But we did keep running. We didn't stop until he said so. 18:16 - We don't let anybody fall behind. 18:19 - I don't say they should be afraid of me, 18:21 as long as they do what I tell them to do. 18:22 Because, number one, we're both human. 18:25 I'm here to teach them. 18:28 Not to make them afraid of me, 18:28 but to teach them the basic knowledge they need 18:31 of basic training with the army. 18:34 And I feel that no man should be afraid of me. 18:35 I don't want him to be afraid of me. 18:38 - He treats us like respectable young men. 18:39 We should treat him with the same respect. 18:41 - Tell him to do something. Show him how to do it. 18:42 Tell him how to do it. Show him how to do it. 18:47 And if possible, do it for him for the first time. 18:49 - You can go to Sergeant Pete, tell him your problems, 18:54 just like your own dad. 18:57 He sat down 18:59 and he's helping me get my high school education. 18:59 (soldiers chuckle) 19:02 Soldier Even tucks you in bed! 19:03 (soldiers chuckle) 19:04 (rifles fire) 19:06 - A lot of times, 19:08 our company commander would double time with us. 19:09 Like, go to the ranges. 19:11 And you know, you're losing your breath or something, 19:13 and you think, "Hell, the CO can do it. I can do it." 19:15 (rifles fire) 19:20 (rifles fire) 19:25 Drill sergeants teach us to help each other out. 19:33 If one of us starts to fall out, two of them grab him. 19:37 One carry his weapon, and the other one push him along. 19:39 - You got a lot of self-discipline here too. 19:43 Like when you're done at 5, 6:30 at night, 19:45 you know what has to be done, 19:48 like polish your boots and clean up your uniform 19:49 and put away all your field gear. 19:51 After a while, you just get to do that naturally. 19:55 And I suppose you keep that with you 19:57 when you get out of the army. 19:58 - I didn't have this kind of recreation 19:59 when I was in the service, I'll tell you that. 20:00 When I was in basic training. 20:02 - The hardest thing that I've had to adjust to in army life 20:03 is the continuous harassment you get by drill sergeants. 20:06 - We had lots of KP duty. 20:10 We had to go through a tremendous exercise program. 20:14 - You walk in, you see three towers, 20:18 all about 40 feet up in the air, 20:20 and you have to go over them one way or another. 20:21 Either pull yourself up with a rope, climb a rope ladder, 20:23 or climb a ladder up and swing down them. 20:25 - Because we were in a complete state of quarantine. 20:28 We were allowed no liberty. 20:35 And then we went to a place called Paradise, 20:38 and this was not exactly paradise, I want to promise you. 20:40 - They're rough, 20:43 but they want to see that you get the job done right 20:44 and that you'll serve your country in a real good way. 20:47 - On December 7, 1941, 20:50 was my first night of liberty. 20:56 (officer speaking) 20:58 (mortarmen shouting) 21:00 (officer speaking) 21:04 - By the time he leaves here, 21:07 we feel that we're turning out an overall better mortarman 21:08 than we ever have before. 21:11 He has a greater opportunity to put his hands on. 21:14 He works with the fire control equipment and the mortars 21:17 more so than what he would have under the old system. 21:20 (mortarmen shouting) 21:25 (soldiers talking) 21:30 - Finlay, you've got the wrong deflection. 21:36 - I have had a problem in the past, 21:38 as some of the older NCOs with whom I work. 21:39 For instance, when I came, this training was new to me. 21:43 It was somewhat hard for me to accept it. 21:46 Here, it's a constant demonstration and a constant hands-on. 21:48 And he has morale therefore, has heart. 21:52 He feels like he is truly participating more. 21:55 Not only that, 21:58 but once he has learned a certain amount of the instruction, 21:59 he is given the opportunity to transfer this knowledge 22:03 to a newer man who is just came to us for the training. 22:06 - Man, we've just been here about how many weeks? 22:09 13 or 14 weeks? 22:11 - 15. 22:12 - 15 weeks? And I've learned to fire 22:14 I don't know how many different weapons. 22:15 Learned a lot of different approaches to things, and like- 22:15 - Know how to strip down your weapons you fire. 22:18 - It's good training. 22:20 It's real good training if you want it. (chuckles) 22:21 (tanks rumble) 22:23 - The trouble is with the training, 22:34 we just don't get to do enough realistic tactical training. 22:36 We spend about 45 weeks a year sitting in garrison 22:39 or going down to Grafenwöhr for tank gunnery. 22:42 Graf is a hell of a lot of work. 22:44 We really don't get much good, hard tactical training in. 22:46 So we come out here for a week or so. 22:50 We need to run, to try to get rid of the motor pool boredom. 22:52 The commander today really has to plan his program 22:56 to keep people out of the motor pool. 23:00 You try things like map courses and compass courses. 23:02 So we come out here and the people sit around and complain, 23:05 hour after hour after hour, 23:09 but they'll work like hell. 23:10 Soldier My mechanics are up the road now, 23:12 repairing a tank. 23:14 They'll work 36, 48 hours straight 23:15 to keep the equipment running. 23:17 - You gotta walk a fine line. 23:18 You gotta be able to approach each man differently, 23:21 approach him as an individual, 23:24 which is sometimes difficult to do 23:26 when you're trying to deal with a mass number of bodies. 23:27 But you've got to try to remember that Cooper is Cooper 23:30 and Lowman is Lowman and Smith is Smith, 23:33 and they each have their personal problems 23:35 and their backgrounds. 23:36 You try to take these things into account 23:38 when you're talking to them, when you're helping them work. 23:40 - I mean, you gotta get the younger generation 23:47 to understand one thing. 23:49 You take a white baby when it's first born 23:51 and a black baby when it's first born, 23:53 and you spank both of them. 23:55 It's no different. They both cry the same. 23:56 Identically the same. 23:58 So that's what you gotta get the young guy to understand. 23:59 And why I say the old has to teach the young 24:01 to persuade him to understand things, 24:04 to overcome these prejudices. 24:06 - We all feel like... 24:08 Or some of us do, feel like we just end up a number. 24:10 A file stuck away somewhere. 24:14 - Ideal officer? I haven't met one yet. 24:16 - A guy of 24 leads all these men 24:19 by listening to them, I think. 24:21 Certainly you don't throw away that experience. 24:23 You'd be a fool to think that at 24, 24:25 you could run a cavalry troop in the United States Army 24:28 by your own background and experience. 24:31 - Basically, there is a new kind of soldier. 24:33 But it depends a lot about the leadership you give a man. 24:35 If you give him something to work for, 24:40 he'll work till hell freezes over for you. 24:41 (tank rumbles) 24:44 - This isn't training. 24:50 This is just getting a bunch of men out here, 24:52 keeping them cold. 24:54 You're not doing nothing. You're just sitting here. 24:56 - Yes, I've got pride. 24:58 I like to do a good job. Do it as best I can. 25:00 - Well, if you can stand the army, you can stand anything. 25:03 - I don't like the army. 25:05 - I can remember when my greatest frustration 25:06 in the army was not being given the leeway 25:10 to go ahead and make decisions and make policies. 25:15 I've had young officers that I'd lose to industry 25:18 who would give me that criticism of the army, 25:22 the fact that they felt frustrated. 25:25 - I'm 25 years old and sort of coming to the middle of it. 25:27 I've got a brother who's the same age as most of my troops. 25:29 I can sort of identify with him. 25:34 I've also got fairly close home life 25:37 and fairly well-disciplined home life, 25:39 so I can identify with the senior NCO 25:41 and the problem that he's going through. 25:43 I think the problem that we have today stems a lot 25:45 from the soldiers' upbringing. 25:49 (officer speaking) 25:51 - Reach up on your front and center risers, two. 25:52 To your front. Drop two. 25:54 To your right. To your right, one. 25:56 Reach up high on your right set of risers. 25:58 Reach up high. Drop one. 26:00 Three, to your rear. Three, to your rear. 26:01 Reach up high. Drop three. 26:03 Pull it deep, three. All the way down to the reserve. 26:05 Pull it deep. 26:07 That's the way to work. You're looking good. 26:09 You're looking good, two. 26:11 - Pull it down, three. Deep! 26:12 Looking good. Unlock your knees. Unlock your knees. 26:14 Pull it down, three! Deep! 26:15 Feet together, feet together, feet together! 26:17 Pull what you got! Pull what you got! 26:19 Feet together! Chin on your chest! 26:23 (paratroopers shouting) 26:27 24, overall satisfactory jump. 26:34 Get out of your harness, report back here in the field. 26:36 (indistinct) 26:38 Take it off, 21! (indistinct) 26:41 (paratroopers shouting) 26:44 - Right, you're in on three, you're in on two, 26:51 and you're in on one. 26:53 You're off to an even start. 26:54 (indistinct) 26:55 Who's going to be first? One, two, or three? 26:59 There's a lot of movement on three. Three's on the go. 27:03 Three's looking hot. Waiting on two and one. 27:05 There is is, three. Three's first. 27:08 Waiting on two and one, one and two. 27:10 Who's going to be next? Two or one? 27:11 A lot of rigging over there. Cut pile on one. 27:14 - Just relax, play it cool. 27:16 - When you go on up there, you'll be scared. 27:19 But when you come down, you do the same thing what I do. 27:21 Just float down, just like you're on a- 27:24 - You might be up to your waist in mud, but (indistinct). 27:26 - And let's get them up high where the birdies fly. 27:33 Make that airborne money. Get them off the ground. 27:34 Okay, take them up high where the birdies fly. 27:37 Jumpers, let up. Reach high on all four risers. 27:39 Lock your elbows, get your feet and knees together. 27:42 Head and eyes to the front. 27:44 Unlock your knees and point the balls of the feet down. 27:46 Jumpers, check your canopy. 27:49 Throw your head to the rear. Arch your back. 27:51 You're looking good. 27:53 Let up, let up. 27:54 Now look around and get a good view 27:55 of Fort Benning, Georgia. 27:57 Three! Get your feet and knees together, three! 27:57 Feet and knees together! Unlock your knees! 28:00 Now, you're almost there. Wait for your arm number. 28:02 One, two, and three. 28:05 Release safety line left side. Quickly, left side. 28:07 Reach up on the right. Fold hand over hand. 28:09 Drop two. 28:11 (indistinct) To your right, to your right, one! 28:13 Reach up high on your right set of risers. 28:14 Reach up high. 28:17 (indistinct) Reach up high. 28:18 Pull it deep. All the way down to the reserve. 28:20 - In the mirrors and that, it's all like the funhouse. 28:21 You walk in, you look in the mirror, 28:24 and your head's swelled out and wrinkled. 28:26 And you got to go to the mirror to shave, you know? 28:28 You can cut your half your face off, 28:30 and you'll never know it looking in the mirror, 28:32 in the glass. 28:34 - Like when I was reading a book. 28:35 I read about maybe four or five chapters of it. 28:36 Just a short paperback. 28:38 And I must've killed about at least a half dozen cockroaches 28:40 that were on the bed when I was on it. 28:44 - Rumor control center has it 28:45 that they were going to be tore down last year, 28:47 or this year or next year. 28:50 And I don't think they're ever going to tear them down. 28:52 - It's been rumored that we're supposed to move. 28:54 I haven't been around here that long. 28:57 Some of these guys have been stuck here since basic. 28:58 They've been living in this stuff for a year, 29:01 a year and a half. 29:02 They got kind of a poor outlook, but I don't blame them. 29:05 - But when the wind comes off the ocean here, 29:08 it gets down to below zero, the chill factor. 29:10 And these barracks are pretty cold. 29:13 I got a head cold, everybody else here has had cold. 29:16 So you're going to catch one too. 29:19 - The place all together is just inhuman really. 29:22 - We got bedspreads, rugs, throw rug. 29:25 We got a desk, TV, a chest of drawers, 29:30 tape player, some pictures. 29:35 Got our own closets with our clothes in it and stuff. 29:38 - Hell, they gave us bookcases in this room. 29:39 We got a chest of drawers, desk. 29:42 Even gave us a rug 29:47 so we don't have to buff the place anymore. 29:48 - It's changed completely. They modernized. 29:50 - I thought you'd like 29:52 to see our luxurious shower room here. 29:52 You can see these pipes. 29:54 Somebody bent them down to shut the water off. 29:56 The water ran down here for about three days I think 29:58 before somebody realized we could turn it over there. 30:00 But still, unless you turn it there, it runs all night, 30:03 and the place is usually completely flooded 30:06 by about six o'clock. 30:09 This here is all moldy. 30:11 I don't know how many times it's been replastered. 30:12 This is all moldy over here. 30:15 I don't think we have too many shower heads that fit, 30:17 if we have them. 30:19 All the plaster's ripped down. 30:21 We don't have any lights for the place at all. 30:23 And the drain that I spoke of, 30:25 after about three showers it'll fill up with water 30:27 and it'll develop a puddle over there. 30:29 Anything you have over there will get wet. 30:31 And it's very cold. I know you can get a cold from it. 30:33 I've had one since I've been in Germany. 30:35 This may have something to do with it. 30:36 And the last medical report out of the place 30:38 was that it had crabs. 30:39 - The war is not here. The war is at home. 30:40 - We go to court over here, like anywhere, 30:42 we just going to a kangaroo thing, you understand. 30:44 We have no representation. 30:47 (soldiers grumbling) 30:50 I mean, we take all these sports. 30:51 We do everything. 30:53 We go abroad for America, 30:55 and win trophies from other countries, 30:57 and we're praised, you understand. 30:59 But when we come back home- 31:00 - Books, we need books to read. Black books. 31:01 Soldier Newspapers and pamphlets and stuff. 31:03 - Playing football 31:07 is not helping you get your mind together. 31:08 - They show a film on the world, 31:11 like that on television, man. 31:13 My mom's wrote me back and told me, man. 31:15 They're showing films on the (indistinct), man, 31:17 and stuff on TV. 31:20 But they don't show what's really going on. 31:22 They never show when we go downtown, you understand. 31:25 They never show when have to communicate with these Germans, 31:28 much less have to communicate 31:32 with the same people here on post, 31:33 our so-called white leaders, our brothers, you understand. 31:35 That's the people who we gotta live with every day. 31:39 We gotta work with those people. 31:41 - I'm just fed up to the point, man, really, 31:43 that I just want to get the hell on out of Germany. 31:45 - You go to the barbershop, 31:48 and they're trying to learn about the black man hair, 31:50 but they don't have enough products 31:54 that they can use on our hair, you understand. 31:55 They used all these white products. 31:57 You just can't put Brylcreem on my hair 31:58 and expect it to lay down, you understand. 32:01 It's not going to work. That's right. 32:03 What's gotta happen, 32:05 they got to send some black products over here. 32:07 Same thing about food, you understand. 32:10 I eat so much potatoes and stuff, I'm about to go crazy. 32:13 Soldier One of the things we have 32:18 for our professionalism is called PIQ: 32:19 periodic individual qualification. 32:23 Every soldier does it twice a year, 32:25 and it consists of a speed march