A Second Life - The Big Picture
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- National Archives and Records Administration
ARC Identifier 2569516 / Local Identifier 111-TV-246
Big Picture: A Second Life
Department of Defense. Department of the Army. Office of the Deputy Chief of Staff for Operations. U.S. Army Audiovisual Center. (ca. 1974 - 05/15/1984). Restoring used equipment, making it over "like new" is the motto of the Ordnance Reclamation Program. Cutting costs and at the same time improving quality are the key contributions to good management, so important to the Ordnance mission.
My Dad was very happy to make it out alive to the last minute of firing in 1953. He got rotated back to Japan and on to Germany the following year after taking a month of leave back home in the US. Dad had been grateful for surviving after being wounded a few times over in Korea. I can remember why when he told us about it with us kids when he felt like it. I often though as a kid my Dad is always hard as nails and never showed any emotion unless he was angry when we messed up as kids. Dad often treated us boys like infantrymen giving us daily lectures as not to "Fuck Up or Else". I saw later as I grew up to why he was so hard on us kids.
reddevilparatrooper my father too was a Korean War vet an he to was madder of fact no dullshit strait go the point ,there was no time or room for dull shit .copmany A 4 th platoon 68 th med tank 6 th armed division.
A dear friend's dad was a Korean War vet. He fought that war every night of his life. So many former soldiers return home shattered. I recently lost a friend who was a Gulf War 1 vet.
Yep, my Pop was too. As I grew up, I learned why.
When I gave his eulogy a few months ago I explained that he knew Honor and Responsibility. He taught these things to his family. As I said then, I couldn't have asked for a better Pop.
@phục êwê The Great Santini I haven't seen in a long time. Dad treated us kids like Infantrymen.
Thank Goodness for Hard Dads.
Where would our Country be?
This is a very interesting documentary. After WW2, America left so much unused equipment buried on various airfields in the UK, because it was cheaper to do that than ship it home to the USA. I always thought what a waste it was. I'm talking Jeeps, radio sets, heavy plant equipment, ammunition, weapons, just about everything you could think of. Some of it still finds its way to the surface!
7:34 Anybody remember these search lights shining into the sky on summer nights in a city near you? They would be located near a major hardware/grocery store or shopping center. From anywhere in town you could see the light beam shining into the sky. If there were clouds overhead they would be lit up also. The beam would pan around the sky. 1960’s advertising. There was a sale on somewhere.
Absolutely do remember that, down here in Baton Rouge.
These would be used into the late 1990's where I'm from- Cincinnati Ohio.
this was on early tv when I was a kid loved this series then
I used to watch this series on weekends during the day back in the '50's. I always looked forward to it.
Yes, the Army and Pentagon are renowned for their thriftiness and never wasting valuable taxpayer dollars.
They used to be, I actually wrote my college thesis on Cold War economics, it all started getting expensive about 1964.
Until modern times , now we just leave everything behind , even if it's for our enemies. Ask Joe Biden about his huge success in leaving everthing behind in Afghanistan all the guns ,vehicles, tanks armoured humvees ,Bradley's, aircraft, helicopters and including American citizens.
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I love these old news movies. Good ol times =))
robin6512 These movies make you proud to be an American. Too sad that now days if you are not a tree hugging bleeding heart liberal, you are not hip.
@@sartainja a lot of us "bleeding heart liberals" are proud Americans too. And it is not COMMUNIST to want decent health care for all Americans. Or affordable public higher education. How do you think we are going to stay ahead of the Russians or Chinese without a lot of engineering talent?
@@glennredwine289 how are you enjoying your debt free education so far?
@@anomalyp8584 i am not going to school right now, but in a couple of years I plan to go back to school and study chemistry/. I will get back with you then. you can ask me on facebook.
Just one year later in 1954 all those surplus military vehicles we brought to Japan
were destroyed when Godzilla attacked.
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There goes Tokyo.
Gasp!
😂😂😂 Good one!
@@clayz1 Again.
I remember watching the TV program,."The Big Picture". It came on every Sunday around 9 am.
Junk yards! I just can’t get over the memory of them. Three blocks from my childhood house was a huge field and a junk yard full of broken down everything and everything else. I was 5 and me and my friend Johnny loved that place. Thanks for the memories.
My dad and uncle both fought in the Korean war.
Houston Randolph: So did my dad. He was a engineer/medic and would tell me of the things he saw and did over there including how the enemy would "walk" their mortars to the target and corsairs strafing the enemy at nearby hills. We have many old b/w pictures of his stay over there.
@@jgstargazer God bless you and your family. Your dad is a true meaning of a hero. Bless the men and women who served during the Korean war.
@@grafenr.3405: Thanks, I hope your dad is still with you... Thinking back I wish I could of done more to show my dad my appreciation for him. He passed on Dec. 15, 2018 and had a Military Honor Guard with a 21 Gun Salute at his funeral.
My friends dad told me a harrowing story of how the Chinese attacked his Marine positon en masse and how they shot so many that they ran out of ammo, ending up using their .45 pistols at the end. My mouth was on my chest listening.
When I saw the recoilles rifle I thought of a classmate's father who was there and the 57mm was his primary weapon. He shot an enemy soldier who was coming over the top of the hill into his foxhole point blank through the chest.
I can't imagine....
ColKorn1965 the Taliban got their hands on an RR while I was in Afghanistan. That was the only time in my year there that they actually managed to land ordinance inside of our tiny COP. I swear I felt the wind come off of one of those rounds. The 120mm mortar team we had on site was able to destroy the gun. It was a beautiful duel to watch, in hindsight.
My father was a Corps Of Engineers officer stationed in Japan during the Korean War. I was born there while all this was going on.
Interesting to confront this with Vietnam 15-odd years later..
I had no idea this sort of thing went on. Fascinating
Just think how much cool stuff is in places like these, especially for collectors
don't think any of this stuff still exists now most in the USA was sold as surplus,as a young man in the early fifties I remember so much of this stuff everywhere
You know what I noticed about this? Very few overweight people.
4:24 "remember not to cut the fuses too short" "yea I know"
literally the next scene: *explosion*
고마워요. 늘 기억하고 살아요. 지금도 그 때를 생각하고 있어요.
고마워요.
Very interesting
Like the part at minute 18 guy says "rifles are carefully reconditioned on an assembly line"! Then the good ol boy comes down hard with his sledge hammer.
Looks like Lee Harvey Oswald 😆
I've seen film years ago, but I don't find it on you tube. Down in the salt mines, all this stuff beautifully cosmolened and mothballed. Just in case.
No kid ever played Pogue in the back yard😅😅😅jokes.Hats off to you Ordnance Men,this Tanker couldnt do your job👌
Love this cold war stuff.
wow!! great military power
No obese people, pre corn syrup.
Corn syrup is the cause of obesity? You're on the wrong track there, Bud. Not even the.Mooch would make such a claim.
@@donkeyslayer4661 High Fructose Corn Syrup. Coincides with the withdrawal of fat from prepared foods and the addition of sugar into almost every prepared good now produced. Sugar is now even added to hamburger patties. All food did not taste sweet.
@@lynnwood7205 the stuff is poison. I hardly, if ever, eat any prepared food. I buy real stuff and cook it. For sweets I eat fruit. I am perfectly healthy, too.
No internet....
I was just going to post that. Country went to pot in the next fifty years.
My brothers was a comms guy (USMC), our dad, a trucker (USArmy).
Behand every smashed foe, are the POGs of the U.S. military! lol
Pogues.
Safety First. Great design for the rocket launcher when you have to stand in front if it to load it. What could possibly go wrong?
I’ll take a couple of M1 Garands please.
Jeeps for me, amazing vehicle. Been offroad a couple of times on rugged bush tracks, in clapped out Willy's that just don't stop.
And a couple of 1911's and two .30 carbines, please.
I want to work there now
Super interesting. I wonder why that ordnance guy was hammering the shit out of that Garand at the 18:00 mark.
A lot of that old stuff ended up with the Marines in Vietnam. We always got the leftovers LOL.
Boy, you can say that again. Leftover reconditioned if your lucky Army equipment.
And then in a few years time, the US Army makes all those vehicles are declared obsolete because the Army is after a new Wizz bang truck or tank
Also, the part about reconditioning bombs was a bit confusing. If anyone know about the USS Forrestal fire, you'll be know what I mean
Now we just leave billions of dollars of equipment behind.
The Chicoms fought us to a standstill back then...............what would they do now?
Where is mash to fix the wounded
i wanna see the bodies produced by these machines
When America really was a superpower..
Remember reading years ago how this program helped propel the black market in Japan giving the Japanese mafia there huge growth spurt.
So miss this surplus being sold in the "Army and Navy Surplus" stores that have turned into uniform and over priced airsoft and/or prepper supply places. PS, 2021 calling the 1950's Please send us that surplus ammo, we need it badly.....
this was the original green new deal
Except that this makes sense and is not based on a certain bartender's fairy tales.
Compare the end of Korean War when the U.S. Army recovered at least some, perhaps most, of its stores of military hardware to when Saigon fell and the North Vietnamese captured tons of U.S. military hardware at the end of the Vietnam War. Ditto Kabul and the Taliban taking huge quantities of U.S. hardware at the end of that debacle.
This US made war materials is still useable in most countries today..
Use for there own interests lol
4 th plt company A 68 th med tank 8 th armered division,Maynard sanborn korea,, Waldoboro ,Maine
The guy at 17:59 looks just like Lee Harvey Oswald.
Sure looks like him
The narrator at the start sounds like Mr Martian.
Yankee know how and money, Japanese workmanship.
그래도 그 때 막디 못했으면 저는 태어나지도 못했을 거에요. 사실 살아보면 좋아하고 서로 느낌이 오는 분들은 그리 무슨 공식과 이유 없어요. 그저 좋아하고 툭탁 장만하고 서로 이유없이 골목대장 하면서 자라는 것이 세상. 조금 따가운 말했다고 마워서가 아니라 실제는 같이 함께 살려는 발버둥입니다. 하하. 뭐 이유이었어 그냥 좋은거지요.
Your right, it was an odd shot.
Those soldiers carrying the collapsible boats are not GIs. Perhaps Canadians? They are all wearing Commonwealth type ammo pouches.
Gotta love the Yanks, just cant stand peace time..
Hey, everyone needs a hobby, ours.is kicking asses
To stay a yank, you got to stay alert.
Our parents and grandparents could've stood for some peacetime in 1917-18 and 1941-45....I personally remember a lot of Europeans in the '80s and South Koreans in '01-'02 who were mighty glad we were there to help keep the Bad Guys off of 'em, too. It took our experiences of European and Asian militarism, imperialism, and totalitarian ideologies in WW1 and -2 to convince us that we had to stay involved overseas to prevent WW3. Trying to shield the whole damn world from Communist totalitarianism cost us untold expense in lives and treasure, and planted many seeds of the societal disintegration so clearly on display here since the 1960s. Yes, we've had a shaky record in a lot of respects, but I look forward to you teaching us who's had a better one :-)
I'd love to get some m1 garand's out of there to buy.
Travis is correct. The CMP has essentially decently condition decent shooting M-1 Garands for anywhere from $700 to $1500. However, a lot of the authentic "original" post Korean War era M-1s are gone. Also, be advised that there are registration conditions and terms that are must be met first.
@Paul Kersey , hello I did get one from the CMP and a real nice one too but I'm ready to get another one the Winchester they have a few more left. Mine is a S/A of 43.
@@warplanner8852 , I have one from CMP from the Philippines war but I just want another one.i got the Garand bug
This is why none of us mere mortals can ever get our hands on all original Garands!! F@&K YOU ARMY ORDNANCE!!! LOL
17:05 Garands!
The spinning globe at the start - Australia doesn't look like it should.
After 1957, the spinning globe was supplemented with Explorer 1, an Army project, and America's first orbital satellite.
19:27 Ready to go home
Never expose our precious gay soldiers to combat.
Whoa! All taxpayer's money! Good savings!
sold as surplus pennies on the dollar,still going on today
양 콧베기라고놀리기도 했지만. 너무 어려 그 뜻을 알리기 없지요. 그러나. 삶에 기준을 드면. 확실히 김사해ㅏ야 하는 과거이지요. 마 샛별이는 발 알아요.
Everybody was skinny but they tended to slouch a lot. Lol
Good stuff=the best generation 4 sure ...
Sgt has no combat infantry badge put sgt on the front
Lee Harvey Oswald at 18:04. Another piece of the puzzle falls into place.
If they were spending that amout 60+ years ago imagine how much money is spent these days!!!!!!!
Still eating c ration cans in vietnam
It's a shame America doesn't have industry anymore, everything is outsourced to other countries
Same here in the UK.
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Bomb renovation.... l.o.l....
1945, Yeaaahhhhh, 1950, Yeaaahhhhhh, 1965, BBBoooooooooooooo, 1991, Yeeaaaaaahhhhhhh, 2003, Bbbbooooooooooo,
You should look for a vid on Mr X about JFK aka Col Prouty. Early on in that are some statements about surplus from WWII and where it went before it was needed. Years b4
'Murica
N.W.O
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Pleaae you broadcasting this in 2003 in George W Bush and Donald Trump
Sean, Montana will never defund the police. Stop your lies!
Then we got involved in a guerilla war and got f*cked.
@Gus VanHorn And I could mention all those statues of Civil War Democrats that the current crop of Republicans want preserved at all costs. Things change.
4:11 I guess "General Biden" didn't watch this episode 😆
Fast forward to today Aug. 2021. Now it's all in the hands of the Taliban.
Should have glassed this useless patch of dirt and it even more useless populace when we had the chance.
Now we just leave everything for the taliban.
I have not seen a modern movie like this made. Perhaps under the leadership of THE GREAT PRESIDENT TRUMP movies such as this can be once again made. I also always wonder when I see a man's office with a book shelf filled like that sergeant's office is the man really did read all those books. I myself read a book and seldom forget what I read so I give the book away . I have a book shelf but on it I have but one book The Holy Bible. That one I re read many times
American propaganda is equal, probably better than german one.
More intelligent and tecnical, less politicard.
Propaganda pure and simple. Evil at work.