Men with Green Faces (1969)

Synopsis

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…

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Running time

28 minutes

Collection

Ephemeral Films

Internet Archive item

40224usnavymenwithgreenfacesusnavwr

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• Stock Footage