https://peertube.dngr.us/videos/watch/7da19bca-635e-41c9-b4f2-4bed070cc66a Join this channel to get access to perks: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCddem5RlB3bQe99wyY49g0g/join Want to learn more about Periscope Film and get access to exclusive swag? Join us on Patreon. Visit https://www.patreon.com/PeriscopeFilm Visit our website www.PeriscopeFilm.com “USAF Jobs; Missile Field Specialties” is a promotional video designed to encourage people to enlist in the air force in the field of missile maintenance showcasing various position available including a Missile Systems Maintenance Specialist and Missile Systems Analyst Specialist. It features a Titan II intercontinental ballistic missile launching and various aircraft including the Northrop T-38 Talon. The Titan II was in service from 1963 to 1987. The film also tours stations such as the Patrick Space Force Base built in 1940 as the Naval Air Station; Banana River and the Vandenberg Air Force Base Station. It swings in with a montage of images around the air force bases; physical training exercises and technicians operating radar equipment.  The Northrop T-38 Talon (:09) runs down the runway for take-off. A motorcyclist duo rolls over rough sand past cacti (:21). The North American X-10 is viewed from the tail (:27). A technician operates air force base controls (:31) of the radar machine. Sergeant Mark Hutton from Satellite Beach, Florida (1:21) takes to the bowling lanes for recreation time. Mark studies sociology at the University of Arizona (1:34). The film turns to follow a day in the life on the job with Mark as a Missile Systems Analyst Specialist (1:41).  He conducts work in the control center (1:46); running daily checks ensuring the missile is up to strategic alert. Mark talks about the hours of the position (2:05). He conducts electrical continuity checks on all systems on a remote piloted vehicle (2:19) in order to simulate various maneuvers the missile would experiences after launching (2:24). Malfunctions are checked and repairs are conducted (2:49). Flaps lift from the tail of the quail missile (2:57). This is another remote control operated missile. A quail decoy is deployed from a B-52 (3:10). Another character is introduced; Tom (3:40) from Dayton, Ohio. He and a friend zoom around a cacti on a motorcycle ride (3:52). Tom appears on the job as an Air Force Missile Systems Maintenance Specialist (4:03). He works to calibrate guidance and control systems on the Titan II (4:10). He peers over check out equipment for the missile guidance computer (4:21). The missile is pulled up from the silo (4:35). Technicians check circuit boards (4:53). A Boston based employee takes a quick putt on the green (5:10). Steven works as the Missile Electronic Equipment Specialist (5:32) checking issues with a unit known as a missile fault locator (5:41). Employees get hands on experience in the world of electronics as well as trouble shooting for issues with equipment (5:57). Jim (6:07) sets a rifle butt onto his shoulder in Costa Mesa California for target practice. Jim works as the Air Force Instrumentation Mechanic (6:29) at the Vandenberg Air Force Base. Employees work to troubleshoot technical issues (6:46) and replace modules (6:48). Another Titan II launches (6:58). A white dome tracking station is pictured briefly (7:04). Radar screens track the launching (7:06). Walter practices Taekwondo (7:27). Sergeant Walter works as a missile mechanic. He wheels out a surface to air missile (7:52). The drone drops from the Lockheed C-130 Falling Star (8:09). A candy cane stripped chute pops (8:18). An air to air missile (8:27) precedes a Minuteman missile in the silo (8:33). Walter explains his reasoning behind joining the air force (8:40) as a missile mechanic. The film begins to wrap up with montage of some of the positions explored in missile maintenance (9:10) and encouragement for viewers to join the Air Force through their recruiters. This film was presented by the USAF (9:37) and the Northrop T-38 closes the film. Motion picture films don't last forever; many have already been lost or destroyed. For almost two decades, we've worked to collect, scan and preserve the world as it was captured on 35mm, 16mm and 8mm movies -- including home movies, industrial films, and other non-fiction. If you have endangered films you'd like to have scanned, or wish to donate celluloid to Periscope Film so that we can share them with the world, we'd love to hear from you. Contact us via the weblink below. This film is part of the Periscope Film LLC archive, one of the largest historic military, transportation, and aviation stock footage collections in the USA. 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