"MEN WITH GREEN FACES" 1969 U.S. NAVY SEALS DOCUMENTARY VIETNAM WAR (Print 2) 40224z

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Men With Green Faces (MN 10585) is a Vietnam-era U.S. Navy documentary from 1969 that explains the intense mental and physical challenges endured by those who want to become elite Navy SEALs. In addition to demonstrating the functions of the Navy's frogmen commandos, the film reflects the excitement of parachute jump training to the quite of jungle patrols. The film opens with Navy SEALs (of what appears to Underwater Demolition Team II) paddling a boat down a river; the men leave the river and head into the jungle for a reconnaissance mission. New SEALs listen to a commander during training (02:30). The men exercise on a field, do pullups, and carry boats while singing. Later, the frogmen put on masks and jump out of a raft moving along a body of water at a fast pace (05:44). The boat comes back around to retrieve the men, who hook their arms on a rope loop to move back into the boat. A member of Underwater Demolition Team II explains an Emerson Scuba Rig to the new SEALs (06:58). Underwater footage shows the SEALs moving just above the water’s floor (07:26), presumably with the Emerson rig. At Fort Benning, GA, the men train by jumping out of a Chinook helicopter into water (08:00), repelling down a line to simulate a parachute jump (08:32), and experience parachute openings while training on a four-armed tower (09:42). The SEALs graduate to parachuting out of a plane during an actual training jump (10:44). Several SEALs participate in a HALO jump (High Altitude, Low Opening). The SEALs participate in a patrol mission during a realistic training (12:20). “Enemy” targets (spring-loaded targets) spring up and the SEALs quickly shoot them. Two men practice hand-to-hand combat and fighting techniques (14:05). The men repel down a rocky face (14:48), moving as quickly as possible. In the classroom, the SEALs learn basic Vietnamese (15:50). An aerial view shows viewers Vietnam and what appears to be the Mekong River (17:10). At a base in Vietnam, the SEALs’ platoon leader briefs his men on an upcoming patrol mission (17:40). They board a PBR in full gear and camouflage. The SEALs quietly move through foliage and ford a river. The men board a PBR after conducting the patrol. The film then shows the men meeting for a debriefing after the mission. Armed Navy patrol boats move on a river (23:46), and helicopters take to the air. The frogmen fire the boat’s machine guns at unseen targets on the riverbanks (24:49), while the helicopters fire at enemy targets on the ground. SEALs attend an awards ceremony where they receive various medals (25:55). A commander gives a widow the medals earned by her late husband.
The United States Navy Sea, Air, and Land Teams, commonly abbreviated as Navy SEALs, are the U.S. Navy's primary special operations force and a component of the Naval Special Warfare Command. Among the SEALs' main functions are conducting small-unit maritime military operations that originate from, and return to, a river, ocean, swamp, delta, or coastline. The SEALs are trained to operate in all environments (sea, air, and land) for which they are named.
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[@noahdunaway]

I trained at Fort Polk in 1968 and it was tuff, when I went to Vietnam in 1969 I appreciated a lot more.

[@ultimatetrex1999]

Thank you for your service! I went there once but as an OC

[@robertmaybeth3434]

I'm glad you made it back to us. REgardless of the politics I never forget the flesh and blood troops, our fellow Americans that got lied into a war we could never win. The way some Americans treated our vets afterwards is inexcusable, and will forever be a stain on our nation's honor! The brave men/women who fought and died for leaders like LBJ shows me their leaders were completely unworthy of these brave men!

[@MrPh30]

One very good documentary about the fine SEAL teams.

[@sonnysantana5454]

funny the 1'st time that i've seen this recruiter video was in the late summer of 78 and it never faded from my memories

[@TheKentuckyWoodsman]

Thank you for your service!

[@ctmasonry4222]

Thank you for sharing.

[@kidkique]

putting the stars and stripes on an od green patrol boat is like when you see a camod nationalguardsmen in a reflective vest... its confusing

[@philliplopez8745]

One learns to embrace the suck .

[@tim9s]

Combat Corpsman is a great book about the Seals from this era.

[@boathemian7694]

The camo beret is bomb

[@earlwright9715]

I had one in the early 80's and an OD green . We had army navy surplus stores everywhere back then.

[@rapman5791]

Look at all those butter bars!

[@hutch1111111]

When did they get the Trident?

[@earlwright9715]

I wonder if anyone has commented they where in seal team 1 , started the navy seals and also trained master chief Don Shipley 😂

[@SergeiGalkinArz]

"Apocalypse Now"

[@colonelkurtz2269]

Are you a soldier Sergei?

[@SergeiGalkinArz]

@@colonelkurtz2269 l am not a soldier.

[@colonelkurtz2269]

@@SergeiGalkinArz you're an errand boy sent by grocery clerks to collect a bill.

[@Hellbender21]

​@@colonelkurtz2269you've gone....insane

[@colonelkurtz2269]

@@Hellbender21 do you find my methods...unsound?

[@brummel4606]

Men with green faces and bloody hands

[@gilzor9376]

yup, hug your Teddy and know they gave you your safe space

[@dionthomas5418]

Navy SEALs are America's most silent professional Shadow Warriors, freedom fighting frogmen, and ninja soldiers defending freedom and America against all enemies everywhere since January 1st 1962, the Men with Green faces was a great classic film special when I was growing up as a 80s kid. Even though it was the first of many Navy Seal history documentary, I as saw the someone special, 80s version of the Men with Green faces Navy SEALs documentary. The training, weapons, Intel on the mission warpath against all enemies, adversity and the mindset that made Navy SEALs the best of the best, America's ultimate maritime special Forces that move like Ninjas on mission is a great force to be reckoned with.

[@indigohammer5732]

By “defending freedom” I think you actually mean “going overseas to brass up some dirt poor foreigners in defence of America and her rancid intimidatory foreign policy”

[@Nitestalker65]

Proud American. American SOF are the best in the world!!! God bless all our Military personnel. Thanks for keeping us sage.

[@RyanStewart-yu4zs]

They certainly keep us sage

[@buzz5969]

Im all outta sage at the moment.

[@ryansperry]

At 27:38 is that a widow being rewarded in place of her spouse?

[@danieljordan2014]

yes.

[@gilzor9376]

Clearly, and not an actor by the looks.

[@danieljordan2014]

@@gilzor9376 none of the people are actors. It's filmed by the Navy using Navy personnel.

[@gilzor9376]

@@danieljordan2014; My comment says 'clearly' because I am well aware of the content I viewed. My statement was meant to express that by the obvious appearance, one can see she is not an actor.

[@danieljordan2014]

some well known name is going to pop up ...

[@Klebersoaresmelo]

I always thought that navy people didn't wear berets...

[@emilianoc.6641]

SO Obsolete. even more in today's battlefield where remote weapons are & will dominate. IMHO.

[@buzz5969]

Wonder how many went into the Salon biz applying makeup afterwards.. Things has sure changed Now all Team members write books, fight over who shot who and get game and movie deals. blabbing their mouths.😅😂

[@jamesamelia2812]

Be glad they exist!

[@TheLAGopher]

This short film was a 1960's version of "blabbing their mouths" The SEAL community has always seen itself as out manned and out resourced by it's bigger Army brothers and on the chopping block for bean counters in Congress.They have always felt they had to use good PR to justify in the public mind the need for Naval Special Warfare. The Air Force special ops community never felt that way because they compliment the Army special ops community and don't overlap in their mission set. The Navy has not fought a war in a primarly martime domain since 1945, so it's special ops have had to carve out nitches in land based Army led campaigns. So the Navy has had to toot it's own horn to keep from getting it's budget slashed as some bean counter in Congress asks, "Why couldn't the SEALs go back to a UDT style mission focus in direct support of the Navy and Marines, and let the Army Special Forces Rangers, Delta Force, and even MARSOC Marines, handle the land based special ops?"

[@jamesamelia2812]

@@TheLAGopher You do make a good point about the land-based operations. The thing is the Navy Seals were very successful in Vietnam. It's kind of hard to put the genie back in the bottle after Vietnam.

[@NotOnDrugs]

That's why *we know* that 1SFOD-D/CAG is _the_ best T1 unit.

[@buzz5969]

@@jamesamelia2812There existence has zero impact on me.🇺🇸🍻✌🏻

[@rapman5791]

17:15 she is cute! 🥰

[@buzz5969]

Imagine the outrage if they wore Black faces😅😂

[@gilzor9376]

Booyah! 👍

[@benjaminperez7328]

It’s “Hooyah.” 😉

[@mr.roboto7330]

Army is Hoorah, Marines is Oorah, Navy is Hooyah

[@gilzor9376]

@@benjaminperez7328 . . my apologies for 'assuming' in previous reply, but Booyah is actually in the American lexicon and with the same meaning for all variations. So we are both right. After looking into it, it seems apparent, Ooh Rah is the one that shows to be the oldest or at least claimed to have had it's origins with the Marines. I always knew it as it was spoken amongst several longtime buddies who served, but one particular friend who was in the Coast Guard always said Ooh Rah, and at the time, I thought that was odd. 🤷‍♀

[@walterheinen5298]

🔱

[@HumanBeanbag]

This will get you cancelled today.

[@ukraine7249]

I trained for the naval seels The cam cream genuinely made my skin break out in horrific acne. The drill Sargent said unfortunately I wouldn’t see combat duty in Vietnam because they’d become infected. I served ten years in South America attached to the CIA fighting gorillas instead

[@mikem6280]

😂

[@earlwright9715]

You don't look old enough , if that's your picture

[@scottlosey4978]

Sure you did....especially spelling SEALs wrong....go back to your Call of Duty game

[@reversefulfillment9189]

I would rather have a smart hearts and minds team.

[@cojones8518]

They are. But sometimes you want a really smart, highly trained guy with a gun, who cares enough to pull your azz out of a really, really bad situation. Just ask the crew of that cargo ship that got hijacked if they'd have rather not had the SEALs there. Tom Hanks even made a movie about it.

[@gilzor9376]

Without this team, you would not have your team. You would be owned and operated as a piece of property. The fact that you are able to form one of those teams, is directly due to the fact that teams like this in many sizes and variations, won the freedom that is required for us all to have these choices.

[@intelprointelpro4452]

Indochine = Vietnam 😕☹️😞😟🇫🇷🇫🇷🇫🇷🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

[@Scott-gt6od]

68-70 phoniex program Dealing Death