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This color educational/training film is about educating soldiers about to be deployed to Vietnam, it discusses the people and the country of Vietnam. This was made in 1967 based on the copyright at the beginning of the film.

Opening titles: Unclassified, U.S. Marine Corps Training Film: Tactics and Techniques Employed by Wespac FMF Units (:081:03). Aerial shots of Vietnam. Green trees, foothills, barren hills. Title: YOU IN VIETNAM (1:041:53). Da Nang. Da Nang Airbase, Planes on the runway, people walk. In the city of Da Nang Vietnamese people use bikes and walk, they buy fish and bread. Marketplace. da Nang has a busy seaport, people unload a truck. A man bangs a gong and people pray in a Buddhist temple. A Christian church. Statues of both Buddhist and Christian figures. Wei is a city above Da Nang and 50 miles from the DMZ dividing the North and South of Vietnam. People ride bikes across a bridge. The Imperial Palace. Port where fishing boats dock, some people have baskets full of fish. A woman walks across a rice paddy. A man picks grass. Farmers walk. A man holds a child. Oxen, older women sit by a fire (1:545:28). U.S. soldiers drive in a jeep over a bridge. Soldiers on patrol approach a village. The village chief. Foothills in Vietnam. Mountains. Soldiers walk up a hill in formation, holding their rifles. They walk through tall brush. Streams. Soldiers trudge through water to cross. Jungle growth. Aerial shot of a village built on stilts. Mountain people. Soldiers walk by villagers and an elephant. Aerial shot of the coastal plain. A marketplace. A soldier chats with a villager. Village life for the poorly clothed and poorly fed. A woman washes a pot in a stream. Villagers walk as an older villager constructs something. A man digs in the rice paddy (5:299:44). A woman stands near a water buffalo. People work in a field and harvesting crops. A person rides a water buffalo. People work in water that nourishes their rice. Some walk amongst dried out fields. A baby is bathed with water. A woman holds a child who smiles. Vietnamese homes are small and their family life is strong. Two men play a board game. An older man contemplates. Men build a wire fence. U.S. Soldiers on patrol. Younger Vietnamese men serve in the military. An older man, young children, an older woman (9:4512:40). A U.S. Soldier walks over to a villager, pats a child on the head. Soldiers shake hands of the villagers. A cross is a shrine. Graves of the dead in makeshift cemeteries. Soldiers carry things on the outskirts of the cemetery. A soldier eats food. Soldiers and children get some water. Soldiers sit amongst villagers at a makeshift bar. Black market merchandise. Soldiers talk with women. Red Light District, a gaggle of women (12:4115:51). Military Police on patrol. U.S. Soldiers shop. Statues for sale. Buildings. A soldier makes a praying motion to a young boy. U.S. Soldier raises a flag for the locals. A helicopter lands as soldiers mill about. Soldiers on patrol. An injured man. A medic assist a sick villager. Village children eat from bowls. Children are fed by soldiers. Marine Corp Civic Action Fund assists villagers (15:5219:10). Off Duty Helicopter crew drops malaria fighting repellant onto trees from a helicopter. Soldiers push children on a swing. A village well is dug assisted by the soldiers. Part of an old truck axel is carried by villagers and then the soldiers help set it up. A road is being made. Bridges are being built. Operation Golden Fleece guarding the villagers so they can harvest crops. Wheat is crushed down into a plate. Rice is hauled into a village. Pigs eat and other livestock wander. A soldier welds a farm tool. A soldier hands a tool to a villager. Some soldiers swim with youngsters in the river, they also scrub and clean the children. Dirt is being raked over and moved. Wood is sawed. A school is being built (19:1123:26). A villager hammers a nail. People sit around tables and read. Children at a table. A soldier tries to teach a villager English. Soldiers try to learn Vietnamese and are taught by a teacher. The people of Vietnam (23:2725:22). No end credits, film just cuts out.

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