USMC 100558: Enlistment Options - Aviation tech support

Item Description
Title
USMC 100558: Enlistment Options - Aviation tech support

Citation information
USMC 100558: Enlistment Options - Aviation tech support . United States Marine Corps Film Repository. Moving Image Research Collections. University of South Carolina.

USMC History Division inventory no
10/2835

Marine Corps Library Number
0000-16

Additional identifiers
1/84; c.3

MIRC inventory no.
USMC 100558

Decade
1980

Description
This promotional film for the Marine Corps Enlistment Options Program, focusing on the Aviation Technical Support Option, displays the job training and experience available to potential new Marines. Technicians are interviewed, including two female Marines, and show their diverse work including: maintenance on aircraft, supplying ground support, repairing aviation equipment, radar repair, navigational equipment maintenance, monitoring data systems in tactical air command, providing air traffic control and helping with flight planning by creating forecasts with balloons in the weather service office. Systems shown in film are all part of Marine Air Traffic Control adn Landing System [MATCALS]: TPS-73 Air Traffic Control Radar, TRN-22 Tactical Air Navigation System [TACAN], AN/TPN-8 Lightweight Approach Control Radar, and TSQ-120 Air Traffic Control Tower.

Location(s)
Unknown

Producing entity
United States Marine Corps (Production unit)

Genre
Public relations

Film date (note)
Filmed in the 1980s.

Air Wing
MAW-3


Item collection
United States Marine Corps Film Repository

Original color
Color

Original audio
Sound

Original gauge
Film: 16mm

Original generation
Postive

Original physical length
300

Original aspect ratio
1.37:1 (Academy)

Original media type
Motion pictures (visual works)

Language
English

Contributing organization
University of South Carolina. Moving Image Research Collections


Digital collection name
United States Marine Corps Films


Rights information
Public Domain. For further information please contact Moving Image Research Collections, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC 29208.

Digital media type
Moving Image

Date digital file created
07/09/2018

Digitization information
High definition access copy derived from a scan of a film original on a Digital Vision Goldeneye.

Digital runtime
9:13

Digital file type
video/H264