U.S. AIR FORCE 1963 SURVIVAL SKILLS TRAINING FILM " MOUNTAIN AND DESERT SURVIVAL " 28544
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- This color educational/training film is about Mountain survival. This is copyright 1963.
Opening titles: U.S. Air Force presents Mountain and Desert survival (:08-:34). Title: Mountain Survival. A parachute is discovered, photographs are taken, three men search for the man who was in that parachute. The next day three men find the body of the pilot. He is dead. Blood on his lifeless hand. The body is photographed. A sheet is laid out across the body. Another body lays dead on rocks. A man stumbles through the desert. A hand clutches sand (:35-2:44). Snow capped mountains, trees in forest terrain. A parachute is on the side of a hill. A pilot, wearing a helmet, comes to and starts to move around and assess the situation. He looks around. He removes the helmet. Trees and a stream. The pilot looks around. He detaches himself from the parachute. He cuts himself loose and starts to run, sliding down the hill. He runs through a forest area, in panic. he sips water from a tiny stream and then washes his face with it. He sits down on a rock and tries to relax and gather himself. He walks over some rocks. He goes back to grab his raft, parachute and helmet. He looks at his stuff and removes a knife. He goes through what he has as part of a kit: fish hooks, safety pin, matches, purification tablets, firestarters, compass, and band aids (2:45-7:09). He reviews what's in his pockets at the moment. He walks around the forest. He finds an open area and clears a fire circle, he gathers pine needles and logs. He cuts the firestarter and places it under the needles and log. He lights a match and it starts his fire (7:10-9:41). The pilot goes over to water and fills a water bag, he places a water purification tablet in it. He ties it and places it in his helmet. He adds more wood to the fire. He cuts some of the parachutes cord. He lays the chute down as a makeshift sleeping bag. He tries to sleep but it's uncomfortable. He goes to the raft and starts to blow it up (9:42-12:20). Half filled, he places his chute on top of the raft and sets up his sleeping area. He rests in it. The next day he packs up to start moving onward. He drinks the water and saves the water bag. He gets himself all ready and puts his helmet on. He starts walking downstream (12:21-15:00). Onward the pilot walks. Near a stream, he sets up camp. He sets up the parachute as a signal to any air rescue. The chute is laid out across an open space. A fire is going as the pilot sews together some piles of dried brush. He places the piles of dried brush in separate areas. He makes a fishing line out of parachute pieces. Has his lure ready (15:01-18:04). The pilot fishes in the stream with his makeshift fishing rod. He sets three poles on the side, feet apart to have a good chance at getting fish. He opens his parachute instruction booklet which has many ways to use the chute on land. He makes a fishing net and scoops up some small minnows. He cooks the fish on a stick over the open flame. He checks his fishing line and has a bite, he scoops up another larger fish (18:05-20:32). The larger fish, a trout, is wrapped in foil he had and put on the fire coals to bake. He makes snares to catch bigger animals. He tests the rope with his fingers. He builds a simple shelter with the parachute (20:33-22:05). He puts another part above it to keep out potential rain. He starts to make a sleeping bag. He stomps out a double L and then adds brush to make the signal stand out. The sun is setting and its getting dark (22:06-23:45). It's dark and the pilot eats the baked trout. The next morning, he has caught a rabbit in one of his snares. He cuts the rabbits fur and pulls the fur off. He cuts the meat into thin slices to cook it faster. He lays meat pieces across a stick and cooks it. He eats the rabbit next to the fire. He eats and reflects. He reacts to the sound of a helicopter. He sets flame to his tied brush, starts waving his arms as the helicopter sees him and lands in an open space (23:46-26:59) A blanket is placed across a dead man's body. The happy pilot goes and enters the helicopter, a man from the helicopter puts the fire out. The helicopter flies away(27:00-27:39). End credits (27:40-27:52).
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If you dont want to watch till the end, he was eaten alive by 14 wild Pallas cats, it was tragic and cute at the same time.
Thank you for this
No he wasn't.
The moment he ran off in panic was the end of the video for me. The rest is just what could've happened if he actually read the map before he started flying.
Best 'cotton pickin'' survival film ever made! Wonder how much money the Air Force spent on this 'masterpiece'?
Once he caught the rabbit, I knew he was going to be rescued. He had four lucky rabbit's feet.
So funny I forgot to laugh 😹
😋🐇
Boss
Once he started telling his story about how he survived I thought he probably would make it 😂
Lols. U s.o.b. Tht ws Fny.
"Your brain is the finest survival kit you will ever have." I took FAA physiological training course (chamber ride) in 1990s when they arranged these at AF bases. One topic they covered briefly was survival and they showed a chart where statistics show the will to survive makes up 80% of the success stories. They also presented percentages for those faced with extreme weather situations that 2 to 5% feel they are too smart to die as it will never happen to them (I never understood this). And then there are the 2 to 5% of those who are too stupid to die, they will survive no matter what. Extreme weather survival training will increase their comfort. For the vast majority feel they can survive but extreme weather survival training will help their chances.
I've always thought as long as you know when to work hard and when to quit you can make it through most anything
@@jamessnider88 but carrying a houseful of potential useful odds an ends is probably the worst thing you could do. I want to so bad but I only got a vehicle. Much be must worse out there
When surveyed, the majority of people who died in wilderness/desert situations indicated either "no" or "little" interest in surviving.
@@LawtonDigital How did they survey them if they were dead?
LOL! "Too Stupid To Die!"
Love it! 😎
What's going to kill you? In descending order:
- severe injury (minutes/hours)
- exposure (hours/days)
- dehydration (days)
- starvation (weeks)
In descending order, those are your priorities.
Most people who survive wilderness situations:
- are rescued (hours/days)
- walk out (rare)
In descending order, those are your priories.
In short:
- treat your injuries
- protect yourself from the elements
- make yourself findable
- conserve your energy
- wait
What about....
-the guys who shot you down arriving at your parachute in about 5 minutes?
That's someone that finds themselves in similar situations on a fairly regular basis in the high desert mountains of West Texas on a 100,000 acre ranch (this country is rough on vehicles) --- I must agree with this comment. Don't panic, plan it!
@@oldmandoinghighkicksonlyin1368 then it's
Fight flight or freeze time
if it on .
go hard as F#ck
plus.. if their "out there", they will have transport and probably a RADIO
if ... their in a helicopter
spot the pilot
DONT KILL them
they might need to be your ride out
and you make sure that they completely understand
they WILL DIE if they don't do exactly what you tell them to do.
eg.. fly that helicopter .. NOW
( don't let them fly any higher than 10ft off the ground, so they can't crash down hard .
slow low and steady as she goes...
or ...be captured or killed
you basically have to deal with the situations as they arise
That helecopter model that rescued him went on to be refurbished after military use and remodeled into "Heli-camper" motor home helecopters.
I grew up in the Adirondacks. I've been "a hundred yards from my own tracks" a few times. My best advice when you're balled up in the woods is to stop moving and make yourself to home. Like it or not, it's your home at that point. I typically build a campfire. I don't even light it. It gives me a few minutes to back off the problem and figure out where I screwed up, or to put a plan together. I've never spent an involuntary night in the woods. If I ever do, I'm prepared.
Awesome!
My thoughts exactly....
Sometimes just taking pause can give you the best edge!
Exactly.
Panicking will get you killed in unfamiliar situations.
This jerk used fire starter bricks when he had pine needles for kindling. I don't think he'd make it.
I was a walker when I got lost for a bit but smart enough to navigate in one direction to hit a fire road grid system in the woods and that lead me to a home and got a ride back to my car
Rescued Pilot to Chopper Pilot :
" DAMN , I left my new wabbit gloves back there !
Can we go back ?? "
Chopper Pilot :
" Well..Ok "
Never ever re-use a "water bag"
Why? If you had no other vessel and needed it to survive? Or is this a play upon what the comments suggest is a prophylactic resemblance?
@@mothratemporalradio517 This is a prophylactic you fool...
@@operatorjeffdeathstar7759 i never caught sight of it, rude person, although other comments suggest it appeared around the 10 minute mark. It may come as a shock but i do engage in more than one task as i watch stuff. In any event, if you had no other vessel and you needed it to survive, who tf cares what its original purpose is? Survival is all about adaptation and innovation. I was watching these videos with consideration of those trying to survive a military coup in Myanmar right now. They are getting brutally murdered in the hundreds since Feb 1, and i seriously don't give a f if you thought my question was silly or you think it's naff to use a rubber as a tool outside of its intended purpose. Go f yourself, with a persona like that you won't be in need of a contraceptive since that'll be the only attention you can attract - your hand. So you should have lots of spare rubbers for water bags then eh. Good day.
@@mothratemporalradio517 I think it was a joke about reusing it to enter a oriface
@@ShawnJonesHellion My orifaces are quite reused
I've been using 'water bags' wrong.
Id only want to drink out of the unlubricated ones, which are also great for microphones.
Being lost and alone in the wilderness with nobody knowing where you are is truly the scariest feeling
Whaaa? You make it sound like heaven. I just always hope to find a beautiful girl doin the same stuff I do. In whatever I do but in the woods I'm usually alone no matter the sex
Looking at that Avatar picture of yours, that's most scariest f****** thing... When I show this to my father he said his old PTSD went away and but now he got new one!
It's less scary if you can make a bit of shelter, start a fire, and find water. Work your way up by learning to do those things. It's kinda fun, really.
Try camping alone. You would be surprised what you will learn about yourself.
Not as scary as the guys from The SS Indianapolis....
I saw this film in the early 80's as a JROTC cadet.
I was I jrotc in high school too.. 84 to 87. Was really cool 😎
@@francisphillips53 JROTC was a blast! We got to fire M-60 machine guns, carry M-16s on field exercises, learn all sorts of military history, spend a week at Ft. Ord, and all sorts of really fun things. Good times!
Wow.... that pilot's gonna be doubly prepared for when the rescue chopper crashes
With repair situations I learned from a trade publication it is sensible to back off & " come back to it with a fresh head".. then walaa..answers flow in.
They actually used that "water bag" for water!? I always thought that was an urban myth. The more you know, I guess.
what the hell did you think it was for ? whiskey?
@@KenMabie he was thinking if he landed in Montana - - near some sheep
@@imgettinby ah the earliest proof of a Fleshlight
And to think I have been using these "water bags" all wrong for years..
"Darn it.. I gave up chocolate and took up smoking.. how I wished I had that choc bar instead of cigs in my pocket."
cant understate the usefulness of cigs surprisingly, just like the fire it can help you relax, calm down and properly assess the situation (although at the cost of lung health lmao)
The video reminds me of "Commanders Call" held at the base theater once a month.
In terms of water containers the pilots in world war 2 got an actual half liter sack while he was given a repurposed condom
Used at that.
Remember, this is the 60s. Everything have to look like a 5o sci if flim. This i back when plastic was considered cutting edge technology
No thats bc he ONLY had the alternate 'survival bag' that is within the parachute brack... as he lost the actual survival bag.
Big difference!
Ah but nowdays with the woke part of the military I bet a few have put a condom or 2 in there mouth
That water bag generally holds other liquids than water if you know what I mean
Was drinking water from mountain rivers without boiling or filtering since last century. Still alive and no problems. I would worry about water in planes near farms down the streams.
I was thinking the same. A stream that is moving quickly won't hold too much bacteria.
@@1962pjh still better safe than sorry tbf, diarrhea is a killer without accessible water
I mean generally youl be fine but if you have at the disposal of purification or fresh drinking water, obviously do it. Rivers are heaps better than still water because bacteria cant just build up. As long as you dont drink from like little ponds or still water you should be fine
@@rickybobby9649 Agree
You can drink from glacial runoff or natural spring water just fine but it has to be moving. Can't drink any kind of still water "raw"
Stop
Think
Great advice.
this dude's campsite is nicer than my actual home
With your first fire. Cut some of your shirt tail or spare cloth. Char it as best you can next to the heat without setting it alight. Store in small pieces for future fire starter. Learn different ways to make portable and long lasting "slow matches" for future fires. There are quite a few ways depending on local resources of burnables.
Thanks for sharing this information with everyone! Where I grew up! Cheyenne Wyoming USA 🇺🇸 cold waR...
The wind blows right through you in Cheyenne.
Mike Hagan what wind? Just a little breeze
What a strange way to punctuate a sentence cold waR…
“I filled it up to about half of air” cut to 3 hours later.
I don't like to eat fish🐟, I am a lost case for survival. But I guess I have to learn from this film.
oh
you'd be very surprised
what you'd suddenly eat..
and how your will to live kicks in
Its amazing how you become a cook after parachuting from a flaming plane
But he was dead! In my time at a certain AFB, while in the Army, we were the group that "hunted" pilots. We all spoke different languages, so it was fun to yell at them in Chinese or Russian or Vietnamese, chase them, catch them, and "torture" them, (all we could was yell and restrain) but it gets real. Read up on the Zimbardo study. Usually 12-24 hr hunts. I hope that those pilots realized it was to help them.
In real life it's pouring down rain the whole time.
and you couldn't get a pitch
cuz all the hipsters have taken them
🤣🤣🤣
9:12 love how that darn survivalist extinguishes his match instead of using it to make more fire.
Sign of an actor? Probably smokes?
What do you mean? AFAIK, matches are not reusable...
@@allyourcode lol
@@ShawnJonesHellion I have to agree he probably smokes.
Thank you to everyone who picked up on the condom water bag. During the clip, I was laughing so hard my wife came in to check on me.
Thanks
what a great film! Thanx for sharing!
Great show
WHERE IS HIS TRUSTY 45 1911?
Or his miniaturized combination Bible and Russian phrase book?
@@raygiordano1045 Atleast he has his condom.. I mean water bag..never know,he might find a horny Asian chick...or a mountain goat,and need to relieve stress
04:24 Rolling down the hill inside the survival kit ... lol.
Would have been a compact 38 revolver. A snub 6 round colt, the Aircrewmen special.
@@raygiordano1045 Think there is special movie "How to survive in Russia".
Great Information!
My pet Rabbit got out yesterday ..
I hope he is ok ??
uhhhhhhhhhhhhh yes yes he's just gonna go into hibernation for a loooooooooong time dont worry.
That was exciting.
Uhhh that wasn’t a water bag. It was from a different sort of survival kit 😉😄
Finally something I might need to use one day!
I like how they call it a water bag
Matches are matchless.
Interesting vid this.. thanks👍
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I like how they are so confident by in reality you are dead
15:14 I’m still thinking about that lost survival kit. I guess I a couple of decades someone is going to have a lucky find.
Growing up in the countryside helps a lot as your basically brought up learning how to survive in the outdoors, I'm very lucky as I live in an area a few yards from the coast and a mile or so from the mountains, most of my upbringing was outdoors.
yep I grew up in Newark upon Trent,
UK
the centre of the Five counties,
as kids spent all the time out in the countryside.
I see nature's food supplies as I go along..
it makes me smile when folks talk about going on wild food foraging, field camp craft, survival courses..
Someone should have told this guy that he has a survival radio with a signal beacon.
It might help.
Also, really enjoyed the desert survival part.
the radio was in the main kit that rolled down hill.
@@jamesbanas1815 was wondering where his radio 📻 was.. (Cap'n Hammond had his.)
He was extremely lucky to even catch the minnows, let alone the fish and rabbit.
There's minnows in most every creek. Rabbit first day would be lucky though.
I don't think Charlie would've given him time to go fishing and wabbit hunting. This was made in 1963, when the U.S. was just getting into the Vietnam War.
@@wtxrailfan ~ Tons of crashes, accidents and resulting deaths happen to service members in the u.s. each year whether we're at war or not. So he could use this information for crashing in the u.s.
if it was me i woul have downed a 600 lbs moose within 30 minutes
Different time, but you are 100 percent right. Now you would be eating twigs and grass.
He's wasting precious matches. Those firestater cubes are basically fat matches. They are dipped in phosphorus on one side so you can use the striking strip supplied with the matches. Just light it like a regular match, no need to use a match to light a match!
This video was pretty good chum.
"water purification bag" well ive been using that all wrong then!
So good! Who knows when I could use that what I saw here or parts of it in any circumstances. Thanks.
I’m convenced the “water bag” is just a military issue condom
I’m just seeing the same?
Yeah it is they used to make the wrap guns with em in water but no one used it for that
Watched this one in JROTC in high school about 1980.
Just like Boy Scouts!
Only thing that made me think, "no!" Was when he immediately extinguished the match after he lit the fire
Neat
7:17 "My own switch blade knife" When he said that, he must have meant his own personal switch blade knife because the U.S.A.F. or any other U.S. military branch does not use switch blade knives. The U.S.A.F. use's the U.S.A.F. Pilot Survival Knife instead.
Not true. There is an automatic made by Colonial I believe that was commonly issued to pilots. It even has a parachute hook.
@@MrEKG123correct. Issued since WW2 to airborne and pilots so you can cut yourself out of your chute with one hand.
It is not recommended to eat or attempt to drink the watery fluid of the Saguaro cactus......BUT.....you CAN eat the big pads of the Prickly Pear cactus.
"my own switchblade knife"
Yes...kept in a small pocket sewn to the flight suit on your thigh.
Remember.... Rest the raft RIGHT ON TOP OF YOUR CAMPFIRE!!!!
Am I the only one who noticed that at 12:35 ?
Shelter, water, food.
In that order
Moral of the story: don't panic
Ive been binge watching survival videos, not sure why.. its 2022 tho.
You're not sure why but you know it's 2022?
Grabs tons of pine needles, all dry, and still uses a fire starter?!
Good old AF still having a five star treatment wherever 🤣
Split the matches. Even 4 times
His own Switch blade?
Yes it's a dangerous place, when you are in the air force "looking at my plane, Well are you, MF ?"
God they had Morgan Freedman narrating it at the end.
Snares should always come first while you have the energy to make a few and mark a routenn
I carry a couple water bags in my wallet and a few bandaids
You never know, whether you're gonna get fucked, or fucked up. :)
Those band-aids are going to be the lifesavers. 🤣. Seriously, not bad instructions considering the age
Half a pack of cigarettes will get you thru anything. Lol.
This man was obviously in shock. Nobody in the right mind leaves their survival gear behind and runs off. The AF may not have known exactly where he was but you can bet, as they did they'd find you and soon. Sad wasted life.
My opinion, his best hope of someone finding him was to find his wreck and stay with it. Every body keeps interjecting an enemy into this situation. They said nothing about an enemy.
@@jerrynewberry2823 Yeah, I get they were trying to show the worst case scenario that leads to survival, but my takeaway is they aren't training these men properly before throwing them to their deaths in this war if the first instinct is to panic run, since it implies he's still too used to civilian life where the nearest "taxi" will take him out of the middle of the mountains. and if shock is enough to make him do that...shock would be enough to make him fire on his own teammates if he got even slightly agitated.
👍💚
10:00 "water bag"
An awesome, wholesome video. Too bad no one is interested in quality products anymore. Quality is irrelevant to or unnecessary for profits.
Poor little Air Farce guy turns into a damn killer-
One things for sure you won't live without a parachute 😅
tell that to Vesna Vulović or Juliane Koepcke.
Dude threw the raft right into the fire
10:26 Tied parachute piece or even a sock would be nicer container for the water. Throw the darn helmet away bud. Too much weight.
I think numbnuts would have made it without the rabbit BBQ.
What if you crash in the desert?
Water Bag!?
"minnows are food"
where i'm from we call that bait .. but in japan its called sushi ..
Wonder how many people today would last 3 days without door dash?
They wouldn't injure that cute bunny rabbit, the only fish they know is fish sticks and building a fire could increase their carbon footprint harming the environment.
Most of them would be dead quickly
if ... it come down to it
everything dies and gets eaten
and everything is going right up in flames.
if I was with a land vehicle
them tyres are going right on the fire, if rescue is on its way
Depends on why we're in such a situation in the first place. A lot of us would be willing to kill for survival if it was our only option, but to join the army just to be forced into situations where you have to, there's at least 3 degrees of "You just wanted to kill" to get over before you're in such a situation. We may be "Soft", but we're not throwing our lives away just to brag about killing a rabbit.
being married to a "highly trained man", they really do tell you how much money the military has spent on you! So don't be STUPID! It works well, also the price of training has gone up!
Yeah I remember being reminded on quite a few different occasions just how much the government spent to train, feed, clothe, and educate each of us. One guy got chewed out for shaving his head with a razor because he was mostly bald rather than pay the army barber to cut the few hairs he did have on the side of his head. They told him that it was “destruction of government property” and that he had to pay the barber anyway.
I don't think that was a water bag.....lol
Kyle Chandler
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Poor rabbit
I hope he never previously used his water bag for other things.😉😏
Remember...this suppose to be taking place behind enemy lines. Otherwise why is air Force pilot out on a mission in the first place.
I'm pretty sure this film was intended for pilots flying training missions in the US. There's separate training for escaping and evading in enemy territory.
Without his survival kit he didnt have his amphetamines and opiates.
Dude, that's not a water bag ☺
Did the pilot have enough water purifier pills to last a month?
One mountain lion and the guy was toast. They probably did have the survival rifle in their kit too (i hope/suppose).
Greetings,
Jeff
Mmmmmmm, water bag
This has a fallout 4 vibe...
Condom and water bag 💪 10:00
Oh and magnifying 🔍 heat tool