Soldier in Panama - The Big Picture
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Big Picture: Soldier in Panama
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). Protecting the Panama Canal has for many years been a vital mission of the United States Army. This is the story about the men on duty in Panama -- one of the Western Hemisphere's most critical defense areas. Viewers will see some of the more unusual aspects of life in Panama. THE BIG PICTURE camera will cover many varied scenes in this tiny republic which is about the size of the State of Maine. From the new university near Panama City the camera travels to the ruins of the Church of San Domingo. It is here that the exploits of the buccaneer Sir Henry Morgan are recalled. Among the many interesting people that the soldier in Panama sees in his travels, are the Montunos, whose villages are in the interior. As one of our country's most important outposts, indispensable to our defenses and to the collective security of the Americas, the Panama Canal must be kept open and operating. This is the mission of the United States forces shown in this program; the mission of the "Soldier in Panama."
My Father, Gerald J. LePage, US Army, filmed & produced many of these “The Big Picture”!
I spent 28 months with both Delta Co. And Hq. Co. 2nd and 4th. Battle Group, 10th. Inf. Detached from 5th. Div. Was a new concept replacing the common battalion concept a Battle Group that had a armour and Hawk missile detachment attached. Was a greatbassigj mnk ent considering 6he long tours. We consisted of many nvh airborne and some ranger cadre. Primarily of those senior and older officers who were finishing up there 20 year retirements from ww2.
2 and a half years at Fort Davis with C/4th Battalion 10th Infantry. 3 and a half year at Fort Kobbe jumping out of airplanes.
Más hermoso es ver cómo parece que éramos mejores antes, las vistas de Avenida Balboa, la Universidad, etc. muestran que la gente era ordenada y respetaba las cosas.
zsv
let's be real, Panama is the best place on earth!!!!!!
+ChiChi thats cuba
alacran crancran When the americans were here. Now it's the big pile of shit and the government doesn't take care of anything. I'm panamenian myself.
@@Edgarixx16 KEEP DREAMING ASSHOLE..
@@derekthompson6550 starting with you a big shit. 🤣🤣🤣 And thanks to the Invasión unjust my Panamá change. Thanks USA. NOT. 😡
Im Panamanian and grew with the zonians, i lived in the canal zone too, my best friends, the best times. 🙌🏻🇵🇦🇺🇸🤝.
Extraordinario video, ciertamente que muestra un Panamá que si no fuera por quienes hicieron el documental, sería olvidado, sin lugar a dudas. La gente se queja del "colonialismo" e "imperialismo" y, aunque ciertamente la intervención nunca fue bienvenida, no cabe duda que sin el Canal y sin la presencia americana no hubiesemos alcanzado los niveles actuales de desarrollo y seríamos otro pequeño país lleno de pobreza como nuestros vecinos.
No tendriamos país si el Gringo no hubiera decidido construir su Canal en Colombia. El Gringo Inventó y Pagó por nuestra Independencia
JAMAS HABIA VISTO UN VIDEO DE ALGUN CANAL LOCAL QUE HICIERA UN DOCUMENTAL CON TAN INCREIBLES IMAGENES...ME HA GUSTADO MUCHO
Excelente, a traves de este video, he conocido mas a Panama,
This video is to have more knowledge of this country, my country, Panama. Many things changed from that time to now. One of the actual problem in here are the traffic, the secutity for normal people. With this president, things are changing for better. I would say corruption went down, you can see it. Another big problem is not obeying the law, drug traffickers and related drug issues, the killing of innocente people on the streets. Thanks for sharing this video.
Panama, you have come a long way, babe!
Waoooo, me encantó, esto es una joya de nuestra historia reciente...
Hermoso video
hermoso video
Qué interesante. por lo menos a mis 40 años vine a enterarme de todo esto... Tanto por aprender de mi país y su relación con USA. Gcs por compartir.
Excelente documental de la vida de nuestro pais en la decada de los 40s
MIS FELICITACIONES, EXCELENTE JOYA HISTORICA DE NUESTRO PAIS HE QUEDADO SOPRENDIDO
de acuerdo contigo..es una buena reseña histórica..pero hay personas q ven estos documentales..y se llenan de resentimientos ..el fantasma de fuera yankees..y etc...me gusto por q nunca habia visto estos videos..es una máquina del tiempo..👍👏
Mi Panamá de los años 40's visto a través de los ojos de los militares americanos acantonados en el istmo. Es hoy día un excelente documental único en su clase que nos muestra hermosas vistas de aquella época a pesar de su objetivo original y que nos deja ver con claridad la masiva presencia militar de esta potencia en nuestro país, más sin embargo todo esto es parte de nuestra historia aunque no precisamente nos llene de orgullo.
Javier E. Domínguez C. Años 50'
Todo ordenado,limpio, el Panamá de ayer demasiado lindo
Awesome!!!!!!
Que paso con el nuevo puente?, ya hubo derrumbamientos, el Puente de las Americas, mano de obra panamena si, pero construido por los gringos, el que quiso sentirse menos en la Zona fue su culpa, vivi en Panama, iba a la Zona y nunca tuve quejas de los gringos, no soy gringa, ni rica. Goce de los beneficios y no tenia derecho a nada como zoneita, solo como panamena y siempre me identifique como tal, me enorgullesco de mi patria. El que habla mal de ellos tendran envidia o no saben la historia.
I would like to know what type insulation was used to insulate the buildings of the USAStratcom Faciilty at Fort Clayton and Quarry Heights 1958 to 1970?
No insulation. All open air with large screened windows on all walls.
Me siento Panama!
What a Time it Was
Eat some monkey meat in (JOTC) jungle training down in Panama back in 73, after 2 days of no rations. Graduation Day... The Training Cadre had prepared it like a stringy brown roast beef. It eat pretty fair, along with the Snakes and raw Iguanas. What spooked me most while off duty in the nearby town of Colon... was the meat on the street being skewered and hibatchi-ed... that was soaking in blood. Couldn't tell you to this day what that red meat was from. But given how all our American meat is normally bled out... i haven't smelled that alluring scent since. -Former Recondo Sgt. 82nd Abn. 1/504 71-74
William Gilpin
My dad was there from the start of WW2 through to VE day.coastal artillery Pacific side of the cannel.
So was my father, arrived 12/25/1941 until 04/44, at Ft. Clayton,( Pacific side)when he was
transferred to Ft. Miles, Delaware! He was in the Search Light Battalion & got out a Cpl. His
name was Arthur Gendron! I've visited Panama 4 times, on cruises & been through the canal, once!
Your father may have been on the same Navy carrier that brought my father there! USS San Jacinto, I think!
VIVA LA REPÚBLICA DE PANAMÁ CARAJOOOOOO💪 🇵🇦🇵🇦🇵🇦🇵🇦🇵🇦🇵🇦🇵🇦🇵🇦🇵🇦🇵🇦🇵🇦🇵🇦🇵🇦🇵🇦🇵🇦🇵🇦🇵🇦🇵🇦🇵🇦🇵🇦🇵🇦🇵🇦🇵🇦🇵🇦🇵🇦🇵🇦🇵🇦🇵🇦
Looks like his office is in an old garage
I could only watch 10 minutes and the clip stops right there... The officer who was to become General Omar Torrijos appears briefly among the police force...
@antonio2828 HOW IRONIC WAS IT..... quien diria.... nice video still
MSG Queen’s collar brass is way off center.
Se puede ver a Omar Torrijos en 7:14 delante de otros militares panameños.
CIERTO!! Wooowww!!
panama should have been the 51st state, what happend?
you woke up
Yeah, It should've been
Who helped build the canal Dikheds
Everybody must've forgot about Mt.Serra Gordo, one mean MFer to hump if u wuzza Grunt...,1983
a total sea level canal would be crazy, but possible
They have recently built a 3rd set of much larger locks parallel to the old ones
en el minuto 7:14 aparece Omar Torrijos
Es el.
Que pifia los 50s!
I graduated JOTC Ft Sherman Panama in 1998. Last cycle to go through before we gave it back to the Panamanians. I went through with 3/327, 1st BDE 101st Div.
Nobody slept on the ground in that deadly triple layer canopy jungle at night.
Swam across the shark & piranha infested Chagres river. My team set the 2nd fastest time on the green hell obstacle course in history.
NVGs don't work at night in the triple layer canopy of the Panamanian jungle.
Everything in the Panamanian jungle would kill you.
They didn't call it Green Hell for nothing.
The black palm trees got some of our men.
Triple layer canopy, Ferdelance, Anacondas, Cayman Crocs, Pirahnas, giant spiders, fresh water hammerheads, black palm, howler monkeys, army ants, clouds of mosquitos and the large aggressive crabs that invaded mainland from the sea each night. Hawai'i is missing all those terrible things that we faced in Panama.
And we didn't just train jungle survival in Panama but we also trained jungle warfare & basic waterborne operations.
Most of our instructors were S.F. Group guys when I was there in 98.
I did my Jungle Expert training in Ft. Sherman in 1990. It is a world of reptiles and you forgot the venom plant that if it comes in contact with your skin, it turns it red and swollen. Love the three meals a day. And I still have my Jungle Expert patch.
I went through JOTC IN 1978. Fun times. Did a couple of Black Fury exercises down there too.
Yes it could be my brother on spot 3:01Thats how I would lay down to not put my feet on the bed.
Vincent Bertone
Buen documental lastima que este en ingles.
Politics, nuff said."
17:02
Es un historia que a otros paices centroamericanos nos llenaria de orgullo.
Por lo que siguen los esfuerzos en Nicaragua, Honduras, Costa Rica, por traer inversionistas chinos para que construyan un canal que les llene de orgullo y traiga auge y desarrollo al pais. Pero ojala que la firma de tratados sean buenos y atraves del pueblo y politicos que deberas quieran al pais.
Que tenga conocimiento en CR no queremos ningún canal acuático, un transbordo por tren si. En Panama funciona xq por 85 años fue una base militar y se aprovechó toda la infraestructura que conllevó. Por si solo el canal no es una mina de oro por si sola, no se engañen.
0:47 o 17:02 17:02
You own it cause we "GAVE" it to you." You can claim no glory from it only the US can."
keep dreaming gringo
You didnt build it you didnt pay for it so you did have it handed to you ... you couldn't even fight for it ...i know cuz i was there that Dec 89
@@robcovarrubias7916 Still crying?
@@youtekdev8131sh*t for brains unless you were there in Dec 89 fighting do everyone a favor and STFU cuz unlike you I was there and i remember
@@robcovarrubias7916 I was there 88-89
Hermoso??, salvo lo arquitectónico y su nivel de organización social que es digno de admirar, aquí no hay nada hermoso. Esto se hizo a base del sufrimiento de miles de panameños. Esto colonialismo puro y cruel. Nuestros mártires ya murieron de bala no dejemos que mueran de olvido.
PAYASOOOO
Los autores no "investigaron" nada. La economía panameña, según el documental, se sustentaba sobre el guineo, el oro y los lagartos!! jajaja. Y los montunos son tímidos por naturaleza. Es un documental que más revela la mentalidad norteamericana (colonialista, racista, imperialista, como han dicho aquí) que la identidad panameña.
And Jimmy Carter gave it away
Bye bye zonians!
Some of us never left, moron.
@@supernova44 Fy
Chinese..
The US gave away a $32 trillion dollars asset for FREE without providing our NATIONAL SECURITY interest and economic interest ,one day the US will suffer for giving away this important asset,
Yeah, we should get together and mail a thank you card to Jimmy Carter.
The Canal belongs to the US
@@normalplayer7377 NOT NOW.
@@davidrimanich5050 Sadly
The thing that people do not realize is that the US only paid $300,000 a year to Panama for the Canal and it was bringing in way more than that so you tell me who owns who? also the Americans have treaties with the Panamanian Gov. that no one knows as this could cause revolt in Panama. The rich and powerful have their own deals!
Buen documental lastima que este en ingles.
17:31