" THIS IS THE POINT " 1967 U.S. MILITARY ACADEMY AT WEST POINT ARMY RECRUITING FILM 88024
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 11 ก.ย. 2020
- This color educational and recruiting film is about daily life at the Military Academy at West Point, NY. Copyright is 1967, which means it was released during the Vietnam War.
Opening title: THIS IS THE POINT (:06-:12). Trees on the grounds of the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, NY. A cannon is fired. Band prepares. Flag flies. A drum is struck. Cadets come down the stairs as another cadet tells them what is going on. An officer scolds a cadet for not having his jacket zipped up (:13-1:30). Rain falls at West Point. Statue of George Washington. Cadets march (1:31-3:13) in formation with their rifles. Quarters of the Superintendent, currently it's Major General Donald V. Bennett. Bennett sits with cadets, including the captain of the football team, while they eat breakfast (3:14-5:58). Cadets walk to class. A teacher speaks to students in a difficult math class (5:59-7:40). Cadets complete math problems on the chalk board. An African American student discusses the problem. Earth space and graphic sciences (7:41-9:30). Art class. Jefferson Davis made a Roman soldier as a cadet, art by Ulysses S. Grant, and Gladiators by William Tecumsah Sherman. Cullum Hall, younger cadets can meet with family here. Women, children, and couples dance (9:31-11:20). Outdoor instruction. Room inspection (11:21-13:52). Cadets march and 'walk the area' as part of punishment. No lying, cheating, or stealing or you are thrown out of West Point. Electrical science school. Swimming. Wrestling matches (13:53-16:51). Hockey game. Fans watch. A goal is scored. Basketball game in progress. A tennis match. A baseball game. Fans clap and applaud. Pole vaulting. Track and field matches (16:52-19:14). At 11:50 a.m. each morning, cadets get ready for lunch. Physics class (19:15-21:14). Nuclear physics is taught. Statue of Colonel and Brevet Brigadier General Sylvanus Thayer known as "the Father of West Point," an early superintendent of West Point and an early advocate of engineering education in the U.S. Students in a history class. Cadets look at their grades on a board. Down the halls as cadets leave class (21:15-23:41). Military arts and sciences class. The instructor is an officer who served in Vietnam. Military justice class. A mock trial is presented (23:42-27:09). Russian class, all cadets must take two years of foreign language. Fluid mechanics class. Students work near a typewriter. Computers at work (28:40) including a tape driven mainframe. Official cadet host teaches social graces. She is in charge of rounding up females to date the cadets. Women walk the grounds with some of the cadets. Women's pictures on a bulletin board that are available to date, some of the men size them up (27:10-30:18). Cadets in formation. Cadets host visiting dignitaries. Bagpipes are played by the visitors. A cadet and his girlfriend sit near the water, they talk and laugh (30:19-32:28). Graduating class presents a "100 Nights" play. This mocks things but everyone laughs. Men dressed as women / in drag, and even Batman shows up in the play. Batman is almost hanged (32:29-34:16). Tactics class. Boats are unloaded, weapons are fired. An intensive military summer program for the incoming second year class is held each summer. During the eight week program, they are taught many different skills. Men do bootcamp type exercises (34:17-36:54). Recondo Base Camp sign. This camp is run by Army Rangers. Cadets fight one another in the combat pit. Two mile run. A cadet is carried off on a stretcher. Pushups. Cliff rappelling (36:55-38:34). Cadets do down a slide pole into the water. Ranger makes the cadet do sit-ups. Cadets have to do pull ups off a rope over water and then salute, they then fall into the water. A cadet does push-ups (38:35-40:16). The Army Black Knights football team, previously known as the Army Cadets, represents the United States Military Academy in college football. Football game. Pre-game walk for the team with the captain and coach. Band and cadets march (40:17-42:12). Tailgating with families before the game. People come into the stadium. Army football game has begun. The game is in full swing. Touchdown for Army. A cannon is fired. Title: This is the Point (42:13-43:58).
Black space (43:59-44:11)
Military Academy at West Point, NY. A former student returns with his wife to look around. Other younger couples at West Point, a couple walks amongst the trees. The couple kisses (44:12-45:46). Wedding. A man throws the garter belt and it's caught by a fellow cadet. Cadets march. Cemetery. Headstones of deceased alumni are shown (45:47-47:27). The long grey line of cadets march in formation. Statue of Gen. Douglas MacArthur. Cadets in formation on the football field. Cadets salute. Battlefield footage. Damaged tank, helmets with bullet holes in them. Vietnam footage, helicopters, walking through fields on fire. Cadets stand silent (47:28-49:49). Cadets march with their rifles (49:50-50:32). End credits (50:33-51:07).
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I had the greatest fortune to be a Professor at USMA for over 10 years. I would have stayed longer but my wife hated the snow and we had 3 rough winters in a row. We sponsored 20 cadets each year and I think most of them are still on my wife's Facebook page with some staying in the US Army and many going on to great civilian careers. One of my first sponsor cadets got into Yale Medical School on early admission and left after one year to pursue undergraduate school followed by Medical School. Once she graduated, she went right back into the US Army and is a pediatrician on active duty today. It was a once-in-a-lifetime experience for this retired US Army officer and I still miss it today after being gone from there for over 15 years. Wow, time flies.
Watching while lying in bed in my West Point barracks room lol. Rip
And some didn't survive 💔
My uncle Major K. A. Bauer '36,
Army Philippine Scouts. Survived Bataan Death March, prisoner in hold of Jap Hell Ship Oryoku Maru, killed Subic Bay 12-15-44. His family never forgets, everyday. Look for his name in Cullum Hall, Pacific Theater. 💔🇺🇲 God bless.
Thanks to your uncle.
The values at West Point are the soul of America. It's wisdom and resolve are needed in our time of social and political confict." Cooperate and Graduate ", has great meaning for a country that needs to Cooperate in order to Survive......Godspeed........xTOTL '79
Did you graduate sir?
@@terrenceescarda8951 Terrence do you understand what the "x" means?...or do I have to be redundant?..Did you receive an appointment or did you ever serve in the military,Terrence?
i fully understand what you are referring to x'89
@@jephrokimbo9050 Thank you, I don't want to deceive anyone ...are you in AOG ?
@@jimwolfe4286 no sir. i am an ex-cadet and do not deserve the honor of being among the Association of Graduates. however, I did become a regular army officer by another route and served for just over 10 years on active duty before joining the reserves and ended my military career in the army national guard. wisdom, hindsight, and knowledge would have better prepared me for my dis-honor but as it is or as it happened i was compelled to resign from the Corps of Cadets. maybe in another Life I would get the opportunity but only God may grant such a chance.
West Point created internet dating and didn’t even know it.
A number of class 67 who went to Vietnam didn't made it back home they've said🇺🇸
the class of ;66 had it the worse; the book the long grey line is about them..I belive 7% of the class was killed in action in Vietnam
Tankers lead the way!
👊😎
They got some smart engineers
Checking my family history about Sylvanus,like to go visit and see it.
The Home for the Foundation of a Superpower.
Aw hell nah AP Statistics in the sixties!
Definitely well before Women were accepted and roamed the plains of USMA! I'd add GEN BDavis Jr name to the list of distinguished graduates also. Go Army Beat Navy 🪖⚓🏈
Class of 1936 🇺🇲
Great one periscope films. Got any on the Naval Academy ?
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I wonder How many of these fine young men fell in Vietnam ?
Irrelevant.
All that matters is how much profit the MIC made.
Too many. I was there in 1967 and there were four upperclassmen I knew personally. They were all fine men. There was a large wooden display board at the entrance to Thayer Hall, the main classroom building. It contained the names and cadet companies of the graduates killed in Vietnam. Each name on a shiny brass plaque about 5 by 7 inches in size. There was probably room for 100 names. About 20% of the board was filled. By the time I graduated the first wooden board was completely filled with names. A second board was about 2/3 filled. It was a constant reminder of the true purpose of West Point. The more our fellow college students protested the war, the more determined we were to do our duty.
They feed those guys pretty good
@25:17 the cadet’s perspective would change due the Tet offensive in January 1968.
26:12 latrine digging company. The guy in the back was laughing.
Damn the west point before is much discipline and has a better marching, It looks tuff tho. What happened to the west point now? It's much easier now. The west point before are practicing hazing and it becomes a tradition.
Westmoreland and Lee I wouldn't be mentioning.
William Childs Westmoreland and Robert Edward Lee at one time in their careers were Superintendents of The United States Military Academy.
@@jephrokimbo9050 Westmoreland was best as a division commander.
@@scottjoseph9578 I will reserve my judgement on that matter. as a fellow artilleryman and redleg there is a long tradition of Generals being appointed from the ranks of the artillery. SHOT OVER!
error: conflict
Cadets now are not as snappy as before.
For you who are concerned about those who fell in Vietnam, ask the johnson administration, afterall it was his war for his legacy. For those who did: may you rest in peace.
the johnson administration does NOT hold full RESPONSIBILITY for vietnam. American involvement dates back to 1942 with roosevelt, then truman in 1945, eisenhower beginning in 1953, kennedy in 1961, then johnson, followed by nixon in 1969 and ultimately ford who witnessed the end in 1975. SEVEN administrations hold some measure of RESPONSIBILITY but johnson more than the others holds a greater RESPONSIBILITY for the escalation and the MINDLESSNESS of which the war was conducted. Peace to those who fought and died in vietnam and especially Captain John Birch and the 58,000+ American servicemen and women who never made it HOME.
21:22 quantum mechanics
Great video. It’s to bad that West Point has given up it’s Duty Honor Country motto and replaced it with Woke BS motto.
no wonder the waffen ss had problems fighting the Americans
ES, GS, and BS!
gender "surgery" allowed in the US military; what General McArthur's soul must think and state.
In August 2021 we "glorified" as a hero a US Army general (with a picture) that was the last american personnel to "withdraw" from Afghanistan. 7100 NATO/US civilian and military casuality's: so as a known terrorist organization has 30billion$ of our weapons and equipment and forced the United States to surrender its embassy; this is considered "victory"
this is considered honor of "war": echoed within the halls and "leadership" of West Point.
all courtesy of BRANDON and THE obamamessiah and company (ie. the DEMONRAT VERMIN party of marxists, communists, socialists, libtards and OBAMATURDS)
Ow my bone spurs
En castellano hablado 😡😈🇨🇱