Les Marines

00:00:01 Pierre Braunberg present

00:00:31 This film was made to show the training of a modern army that serves to defend liberties that also permit the showing of that kind of film.

00:01:13 They will only be rookies in a few hours.

00:01:46 First contact with reality: the drill sergent. His job: the war.

00:02:07 Three months to make it happen.

00:02:49 And these troops undergo the same kind of preparation, the same kind of training.

00:05:25 They came from every parts of the United-States. North and south.

00:05:44 Nevertheless, all these boys so different have something in common.

00:05:53 The bet to hold on.

00:06:09 According to standard mesurments. In one word: marines.

00:07:25 They will have to give it all up.

00:07:35 Numbers shouted by a sargent

00:10:37 In any nation, shock troop staffs will tell you that these rigours ar not free.

00:11:28 At war, the loner is killed. That's why they have to keep close to one another.

00:13:15 That is the new art of war. The close combat.

00:15:19 Memories are however autorized, but at specific hours.

00:16:25 In every amy, it is the sign that annonce the event.

00:16:43 The day that these volunteers in front of the troops, in front of their families

00:17:35 The mothers, vigilent guides of the public opinion, have become worried.

00:18:11 Promotions succeed to other promotions