Big Picture: First Sergeant
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 28 ส.ค. 2024
- Big Picture: First Sergeant - National Archives and Records Administration - ARC Identifier 2569677 / Local Identifier 111-TV-410 - DVD Copied by Katie Filbert - 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). Story of a first sergeant on duty in Berlin is told -- This is a personal story told on film about one man -- an Army top-kick -- on duty 100 miles behind the Iron Curtain. First Sergeant Richard B. Gilland, a career non-commissioned officer, is one of the hardcore of NCOs who play an indispensable part in keeping the U.S. Army the greatest fighting team in the world. Filmed in Company C, 6th Infantry Regiment, stationed in Berlin, Germany, Gilland was chosen as one who typifies the ideal first-soldier. He has an outstanding combat record and shows up on film with a clean-cut rugged appearance. Also included is footage on his family and community life to give television viewers a well-rounded look at the "day in the life of a First Sergeant." Gilland, 35-year-old native of Breckenridge, Texas, is a veteran of 17 years in the service. He fought in the European-African-Middle East Theatre in World War II and in Korea. He's been First Sergeant of Company C since April 1956. The television viewer will get a peek at his wife, Faye, and their four daughters: Elizabeth, 9; Donna, 7; Paula Faye, 4; and Susan Joan, 3.
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This video is about my Dad. He had a long career in the military and then had two additional careers. He died in 2012 at the age of 90. He was in great health and had a sharp mind until the day he died. The Army produced some incredible men! He was loved!
Susan, Is your dad Richard Galland?
Debra Erdmann Hi Debra! Yes, This is about my Dad - Richard Gilland. If you watch the film it features our family when we lived in Berlin. The Army changed our first names but yes it's us!!!! Thanks for watching! Susan
He was a hero www.findagrave.com/memorial/97793180/richard-boyd-gilland
What an awesome tribute to your dad. The U.S. Army was the strongest fighting force the world has ever seen. Great men and women 🇺🇸
OH WOW THAT'S AWESOME
First Sergeants are the true backbone of the Army. This one appears to be nothing less. His men were lucky to have him.
Good old fashion Army at its best. Times and traditions were different then even better than today in ways of caliber of the lifers who taught good things that mattered from long yrs learning and passing them on to the new soldiers. I had a company sgt. Who was a career lifer and I will never forget that man and what he lived and stood for. I consider myself fortunate to have know him.
The good ole days when you could find an ashtray on your CO's desk :)
Loved being a First Sergeant more than being a Sergeant Major 🫡
Wow these soldiers are really well polished in terms of training. God Bless you all soldiers.
First sergeants are the top of enlisted food chain.
Sergeant Major or Master Sergeant.
We’re a show unit. This month it’s Cabaret. Next month, Pippin. Tickets on sale now!!
I see that this was before the authorization of E-8 and E-9 in 1959...and that not a lot has changed in a First Sergeant's duties. The Signal Corps/USAAVC did a good job on this one in telling the Army's side.
This is awesome!!!! Great upload. Thanks!
I miss doing this.
23:30 - Lol, I love how these infantrymen are storming the hilltop at the pace of a nonchalant, casual stroll, sure adds realism to the exercises. ;-D
I think it was arranged for filming. A lot of old films are like that. They're idealized representations rather than hard reality.
thank you
The brave , dectated, hard, Changing soldiers of the U.S. Army. These words are never said in the narrated of any documentary. Compare how they narrated the marines vs the U.S Army
not a fat one in the whole seris.
You didn't see a strip full of restaurants and fast food joints either.
So , this how the army does business . interesting.
Before the Berlin Airlift, so I never knew we shared guard duty with the USSR military. So it wasn't yet divided up to East - West yet?
The Berlin was went up in 1961
They shared guard duty with Soviet troops at the Spandau Prison where the Nazi war criminals were kept. I think Albert Speer was the last inmate there was released in the early 70's, I think. The prison closed after that.
Retired 1SG. Best damn job I ever had. The BC and me worked well together and we trained a damn good Battery. I always believed that Diamonds are trump.
Diamonds are Trump, three times a 1SG
Getting ready for noooklar combat
Anyone else see a blunder at 7:29? The sergeant on the left has a Staff Sergeant rank on his right and Sergeant First Class on the left 😅😅😅
Does anybody know what years the US Army had those Kepi's hats ?
The ridgeways were worn from the early 50s to early 60s
They went away in 1964.
Schofield barracks Hawaii. #icj
1st platoon cq desk AO bravo company ao 2/14INF 2nd brigade 10th mtn division fort drum new york
Ive always wondered if movies like this were propaganda or we were really that squared away at some point. I grew up glued to the army. Found it a big disappointment when I was old enough to join. Turned out to be more of a shit show than I expected.
Propaganda
Pre "Critical Race Theory" and using the military as a social reprogramming venue. The good old days!
This video was filmed after July 26, 1948, when President Harry Truman signed Executive Order 9981, creating the President's Committee on Equality of Treatment and Opportunity in the Armed Services. The order mandated the desegregation of the U.S. military. Sounds like social programming to me. Also CRT is only taught in law schools in the USA, so stop the fear-mongering.
You don't realize this is exactly what they were doing with these films...using the military to reprogram. None of this stuff is new buddy. Yes, I like these films. They are still marketing campaigns with an intended perspective to push.
Wry tired oh you idiot bigots running your traps! Many a black man and woman gave thief lives for this Country
I don’t understand why the Red Cross would be involved in getting soldiers stationed in Berlin to the USA in the event of serious illness or tragedy back home. 13:15
They do that today still. It's so guys who have immediate family who are sick or dying have the opportunity to see their loved ones.
I have to disagree with the narration, Msgt Queen said of the American military “the greatest fighting team in the world” if the definition of “greatest” is the “largest” then, at the time of this film, then that might be true, I am not sure and I don’t really feel like Googling the answer, but, if it meant, and I strongly suggest that is how it should be defined, as the “best” I really can’t agree, and yes I know this is propaganda film aimed at the American civilian population, as I believe that the only way to tell who is the “greatest” is by combat, something that we all hope doesn’t happen, and as was said in the film “The Dirty Dozen” “their very pretty, but can they fight”, a very true analogy, every military force, from any country, would and does, believe their military is the greatest on earth, but as most men would say “it’s not what you’ve got, it’s how you use it that counts”. Every military formation has different, but equally valid, ways of doing things, so again, no comparison possible unless they are in combat, I don’t believe in throwing men into combat like “cannon fodder”, sometimes the small specialist unit can achieve what a whole battalion couldn’t, so, no comparison would be valid.
Thanks for sharing this interesting and informative documentary, and entertaining, I enjoyed comparing the United States military with my own countries military. 😀👍🇬🇧🏴
Argentina kicked your arse in the Falklands . Saying otherwise is typical British propaganda.