USMC 100558: Enlistment Options - Aviation tech support

Description: Item Description Title USMC 100558: Enlistment Options - Aviation tech support Citation information USMC 100558: Enlistment Options - Aviation tech support . United States Marine Corps Film Repository. Moving Image Research Collections. University of South Carolina. USMC History Division inventory no 10/2835 Marine Corps Library Number 0000-16 Additional identifiers 1/84; c.3 MIRC inventory no. USMC 100558 Decade 1980 Description This promotional film for the Marine Corps Enlistment Options Program, focusing on the Aviation Technical Support Option, displays the job training and experience available to potential new Marines. Technicians are interviewed, including two female Marines, and show their diverse work including: maintenance on aircraft, supplying ground support, repairing aviation equipment, radar repair, navigational equipment maintenance, monitoring data systems in tactical air command, providing air traffic control and helping with flight planning by creating forecasts with balloons in the weather service office. Systems shown in film are all part of Marine Air Traffic Control adn Landing System [MATCALS]: TPS-73 Air Traffic Control Radar, TRN-22 Tactical Air Navigation System [TACAN], AN/TPN-8 Lightweight Approach Control Radar, and TSQ-120 Air Traffic Control Tower. Location(s) Unknown Producing entity United States Marine Corps (Production unit) Genre Public relations Film date (note) Filmed in the 1980s. Air Wing MAW-3 Item collection United States Marine Corps Film Repository Original color Color Original audio Sound Original gauge Film: 16mm Original generation Postive Original physical length 300 Original aspect ratio 1.37:1 (Academy) Original media type Motion pictures (visual works) Language English Contributing organization University of South Carolina. Moving Image Research Collections Digital collection name United States Marine Corps Films Rights information Public Domain. For further information please contact Moving Image Research Collections, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC 29208. Digital media type Moving Image Date digital file created 07/09/2018 Digitization information High definition access copy derived from a scan of a film original on a Digital Vision Goldeneye. Digital runtime 9:13 Digital file type video/H264