1943 U.S. NAVY INDUCTION WWII SOCIAL GUIDANCE TRAINING FILM " FIRST LEAVE " DON'T GO AWOL! 28584
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This b&w U.S. Navy training film "First Leave" was shown to recruits during the training process. It presents a dramatized look at what can go wrong during a sailor's first leave from service after induction, as the sailor goes AWOL, resulting in a review board / courts martial and potential dishonorable discharge. As such, it can be considered a U.S. Navy social guidance film. Copyright 1943.
Opening titles: "First Leave" (:07-:20). Newly minted U.S. Navy sailors march and sing, "Hi Ho, Hi Ho, It's Off to First Leave We Go!". Induction center, men join the Navy. Men line up and take the Oath of Induction. U.S. Naval Training Station, probably Great Lakes. New recruits arrive (:21-2:12). Men change their clothes, get checked by doctors, get issued new uniforms. Man in front of a mirror in his Navy uniform. Recruits perform exercises, one rips his pants. Men march and turn. Rowing a boat. Calisthenics. Sailors march carrying their rifles. Sailors hand in their rifles. A sailor gets leave from the Navy and is told by an officer what to do, how to behave and -- make sure to be back on time. Sailors leave the base.
(2:13-5:17). Sailor relaxes on a train. A sailor talks to a woman on the train. He then talks to another sailor (5:18-7:23). Two sailors take a seat and talk about being in the Navy. Sailor has breakfast in bed at home. Sailor meets people, goes to church, watches sporting events. Holds hands with a woman. A sailor dances with a woman at a party (7:24-9:36). Sailor stops his car and lights up a kissing couple. His date heads inside but he gets eyed by another girl. Couple heads inside to the party. People dance (9:37-11:45). Sailor takes the girl who eyed him outside to talk. Sailor talks to the girl and they kiss. Inside the party ends, people leave. The girl says she'll see the sailor tomorrow night but he's leaving tomorrow. Two sailors discuss (11:46-14:02). One sailor drops off the other, tells him to make sure he leaves the following day. Sailor returns home a little tipsy, talks with his parents. His mother isn't pleased he's been drinking (14:03-16:16). The father tells the mother to take it easy on the son. Sailor goes to a diner. A man makes a comment to the sailor. Another sailor shows up and wants money. The two discuss showing up late from leave, with the penalty being described as a short time in the brig (16:17-18:17). Diner waiter warns the sailor about the other sailor being a tramp and wanting money. Sailor gets ready for bed at home. Sets his alarm clock. Sailor tosses and turns as the clock ticks (18:18-19:58). Sailor thinks about the girl, being inducted into the Navy, being told to be back on time, kissing the girl. Sailor walks down the street the following day (19:59-21:24). Sailor takes the girl out, but he must avoid the well known places. The girl gets annoyed at being taken to a 'dump' and asks to go home. The sailor walks around the next day. He can't take the train so he hitches a ride. The sailor changes clothes, but he needs money. He sees a help wanted sign at a defense plant (21:25-23:34). The sailor works in a restaurant and just wants to save money to get back to base. He is suddenly grabbed by a man looking for him. He's AWOL. Now the sailor is shown in a cell, waiting to get picked up (23:35-24:26). These days in the civilian jail will be added onto his punishment. Walking back into the base, the sailor looks around, no welcome for him. He is placed into a cell before speaking with the District Officer. The District Officer explains the trouble he is in. The sailor sits in a cell and waits (24:27-26:47). The sailor speaks to a defense attorney. The sailor is brought from a cell and put before the U.S. Navy board (26:48-28:36). The sailor says he is "not guilty" to the charge of desertion during wartime. It appears based on his actions that he is guilty. Court is cleared as the trial is over. As the sailor sits in a cell, the Navy figures out if he's guilty or not. He grabs at the bars, as it appears his life as he knows it is over! Just then, an alarm clock wakes him up - he is still in his bed (28:37-30:33). It's all been a dream! Sailor says goodbye to his parents and takes a ride from his father. Back on the train, then the U.S. Naval Training Station. Sailors march and sing on the base (30:34-32:00). End credits (32:01-32:09).
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After many years in the army, I can confirm, the best stuff on leave always happens the day before you have to leave 9 times out of 10. The way it goes unfortunately.
Ex-navy man here to confirm your observation. The best time, the prettiest girl, the greatest adventure. The day before you're on the way back to the ship.
@@janerkenbrack3373 Absolutely. Never fails....
Amen brother, amen.
I love these training films. Puts you right there in the soldier's/sailor's shoes. Time for a Private Snafu cartoon!
When I got my boot leave I think I slept for 24 hours straight. Not even joking.
Navy Boot has changed some from 1943 to early 1980's it was scary people in your face screaming. Fear of the unknown But you do get use to it. I went on to the rank of E6 RM1 Navy was a great way of life to see the world. And defend the USA it was an honor and privilege to serve.
From the street sign at the end...if Midway Island is 3300 Nautical miles from base then it must be San Diego which is where I went to boot camp in '85. However, the young lad in the film must have gone to Great Lakes RTC because of his Northwestern University pendant and close proximity to base. That's where my dad and oldest brother went to boot camp in '42 and '67. My other brother went to Orlando for his boot camp in '71, so we had it pretty much covered.
I was there in San Diego in 1985 Company 181
@@carl112466 I was there in 1985 also in Company 944. Went to BE/E there also and had a roommate named Carl from Long Island New York. His dad was a Mustang LT in WWII and showed up to his graduation wearing his dress blues. I think he was going to IC “A” after BE/E. We stayed in contact for a while until after he got out and married his high school sweetheart.
If you’re the same Carl then hello again. If not then sorry for the confusion but nice to meet you.👍
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I’m glad it had a happy ending and the boy made it safe thru the war and had a good life.
Good Old Training Films 😉🇺🇸
I went through Great Lakes in the fall of 1969. I had (USN/R) Reserve drilling aboard DD696 (USS English) prior to boot camp. I was the oldest in the company at 22 and I was a YN striker. BT1 (Brown) was the Company Commander. "Brownie" had a side hustle inspecting boilers for local businesses. "Brownie" appointed me the company Yeoman. Never saw much of BT1 Brown except when he came and picked me up late at night to go drinking with him! Great Lakes Boot Camp was good to me. Served my active duty in Naval Aviation with Attack Squadron Eighty-Two (VA-82) aboard CVA66 (USS America).
Dang! That sounds like a great boot camp experience 🍻
@@Jimboco7654 :
THE BOTTOM OF SHOES - EVEN LOWER SOUL !!!!!!!
Served 24 years, 1975 - 1999 4 ships, company commander at Great Mistakes and a tour of recruiting. A sailor has three missions on any shore leave... get screwed, brewed, & tattooed. MMCM(SW) Ret
A then you get the "square needle in the left nut" shot a couple days later, right?
This movie should have scared the crap out of any sailor thinking of just going AWOL for a short time during WW2. Throwing the charge of " desertion in time of war" seems over the top but I guess it achieved its purpose.
Falling asleep on watch will get you into some serious trouble too. In time of war it could get you the death penalty.
"Desertion in time of war" was dead on! Military personnel need to depend on each other. If you can't follow simple commands like "be back from shore leave on time" how can your shipmates depend on you when the chips are down? If this guy had gotten off easy it would have encouraged others to do the same dumb things or worse. Then there goes the discipline so the enemy wins without firing a shot.
THEM LIFERS !!!!
Thanks so much for posting these videos!!!!!!
My USAF tech school was in Biloxi in 1987. There were a steady stream of Mississippi girls looking for any way to escape the their dismal existence, and unfortunately several of my fellow airmen fell for the usual lines, the most popular one was “I’m pregnant.” They were all false assertions by desperate girls willing to go that route. By the time tech school was finished, we had several marriage-annulled airmen in our squadron. There’s really nothing worse than a naïve airman. They’ll say or do anything to “get sum.” I learned that the same was true for the Seabee trainees in Gulfport from a friend who was stationed there.
Same w/ the Army
I guess it's a part of human nature.
haha then they woke up and said these boys are lame and came back home and married a southern gentleman and had a wonderful life...
I was in the Sea Bees but a different training erea. My cousin was in the Marines. He went AWOL twice! Dumb A**! I guess all young service men are tempted this way or another. I'm glad I wasn't tempted. But for me the idea of the Navy was set in my mind. I enjoyed my time in even though we were sent to Nam twice.
I was stationed in Gulfport as a seabee. First thing and most important thing my dad told me before i joined was stay away from the girls near base. They are just looking for tricare and a dependent ID card. And when you deploy they will be hopping onto another Seabee and blowing your money.
Now they give more ribbons for going to boot camp than the PO1 veteran has for years. What crap
Our young sailor is the actor Dean Harens, 1920-1996.
Do you know the name of the actress who plays the dame?
@@mine2394 Sorry I don't.
That bend over remark at around 2:25 is all branches universal basic training :)
I knew it! It was the Damn Peabody's fancy punch that did him in. If he had only brought the CAPT his mom's pie.....
Hahaha, so many funny things I can interject over the dialogue!
I remember at my first duty station, helicopter squadron in Maport Fl, I had only been there for a week, woke up one morning looked at the clock, threw on a uniform and hauled ass, scared as hell cause I was an hour late. Swung open the dood to the duty office and the OOD asked what the hell is your hurry son? I told him I was sorry to be late....he looked at the duty roster and said your not on the watch list....then I found out it was SATURDAY! They rode me for weeks!😂
People complain about corona, but war time is worse. Desertion is no joke.
Got my 20 in. Mid 70s thru mid 90s. 5 ships. Loved it.
2:26 “Bend over and pull out your cheeks” has a whole new meaning at MEPS 😅
Remember my first leave after boot camp, January 1983. Reported to USS Semmes DDG 18 in Philadelphia Naval Shipyard...
Orlando Boot Camp?
@@Laura-wc5xt No, Great Lakes
@Chrris Smith I'd have to look at my company photo to remind me what my Recruit Company number was. Lol. It's been 38+ years..
@Chrris Smith Food Service week. I was the company yeoman and marched the guys to and from the galley every day.
@Chrris Smith I too was stationed on USS Kinkaid from Feb 1987-1989. Made OS2 shortly after reporting on board.
Great stuff
As I was reminded often: "You're not "salty" until you've spent some time in the fleet". Making it through boot camp ain't "salty" :-)
Yes our hero - for now - is a dry land sailor.
Exactly! I said what? at that part of the video! Until you've deployed on a cruise, gotten a tat when you're passed out drunk, and had a couple cases of the clap, you ain't "salty".
The c.o. kept saying,harris,harris,harris,
DANG THATS ANNOYING,
thats why i cant be in armed forces,i dont have patience. For all vets,thank u
Wait... No, "GET OFF MY PUCKING BUS!!!!! DONT WALK ON MY PUCKING FLAGS!!!!!"
I think just hearing that accent, more than anything else, takes me back.
Almost no one who successfully completed any boot camp would do this.
Navy has great ships/chow.
I guess I’ve never really thought about war stories like that one and bet that happened pretty often 😂
During my 20 years in the Navy from 1985-2005 I never saw anyone act like this guy. There were some who were close and most get out after their first enlistment or sooner if they screw up. On the other hand, I saw a lot of civilians acting like those in this training film, that part they got right but the Navy aspect is inaccurate as can be. Nobody uses that Navy language outside the Navy, only in the movies and TV shows will you ever see this stereotype portrayed this way.
It's a good training film and gets the point across and makes you wonder if there's a Part 2 that takes place a few days later and Steve is at Sickcall and finds out he has a case of "crotch critters" and "the clap" from that hot girl he met at Peabody's house party. Trobicine hadn't been invented back then and the cure was to pound the guy's johnson with a rubber mallet on the doctor's examination table and to swab-out the pieces. A very painful process and most guys were more careful after that experience.
Or as they told us in Basic in 1970, "you'll get a shot with a square needle in the left nut."
@@deirdre108 They were saying that in 1985 also. 😁👍✨
@@JohnFourtyTwo So they carried on with THAT tradition then! Good to hear!
@@deirdre108 Agreed, something things never die. 👍✨
“Did you join the Navy?”…That’s what my mom said when I caught crabs in college…lol…
My dad joined up in ‘43, right out of high school.
@10:16 love the music! 🥰
How Trying to Get to Third Base Can Get You Thrown Out!
Va va voom!! The dame on the train sure looked like Jean Arthur, wouldn't mind spending some time pitching woo with her on the swingset.
My guess was Barbara Stanwyck.
@@markblix6880 I see it in the nose but Stanwyck's voice was way deeper.
@@jimmartin7881 A pack a day Lucky Strikes and Chesterfields will give you that nice deep gravely voice.🚬
Well, Hello Sailor!
I'm not a sir! I know who my father was! I'm Chief to you!!
Dont call me sir I work for a living. Thats first thing told by my first instructor army
@@jimspink2922 Navy for me. I remember that line like it was yesterday! My father USAF and USAAC. Had us call everyone sir and Ma'am. Words of respect in my house!
Fajny film
A Sailor on shore leave I'm sure there's going to some good comments on this one.
Sphinx!
You are Navy now!
"I like my girls looking like women."
The good old days.
Cause nowadays you can tell who's a Girl or Guy 🙄🙄🙄🇺🇸
Even truer today…
Is that beat cop around 80???!!!😂
If no one goes to war. There is no war.
07:13
Sailor 1. "How's things going back home?"
Sailor 2. "Ah, a few more girls at the mill waring pants, etc"
Sailor 2. "Gee, I hope they haven't forgotten about female clothing altogether - I like my girls to look like women ". .......
( --- Time warp forward 80 years)
Me: nodding and weeping.
Where was the safe sex speech, and free condoms from the C.O. ?
Weird seeing the crow on the right arm.
This makes you think of your elders in a more realistic scene.they where people to.
How many volunteered before they were forced into it and how many were threatened with criminal charges if they didn't report?
Liberty expires on board... ENCS(SW) retired
it was all a dream....
One of over a thousand politicians could have taken his place.
I went to Navy boot camp, Great Lakes, in 1965 and we watched this very same film. I sure didn’t join the Navy for their uniforms, ugliest in the military! Speaking of uniforms we went on shore leave in civies, if we had them, unless we were at an overseas port.
Do the Marine one
I think Gomer Pyle already did that ...
They just wanted to "get their ashes hauled".
Still glad I joined the Army, and not the Navy like my older brother :)
The future of war is telecontrolled armies, however it could be worth doing some fight for now 😁
Salty right after boot camp! Hahahaha
There was a guy in my school named Steve Harris. Kinda ruined my thought process here. He was a first class jerk, a druggie, and had no concept of work. He died at age 35. I guess the military weeds these kind of prospect out.
hi everyone at the periscope channel and hi to everyone else watching let's see how's this for first leave you and some ship mate's on first leave hit the bar's by the doc's drinking shooting some pool when some marines come in oh they got a little rude the Navy needed to teach the Marines some manners of course one of the Navy man making a crack about the Marines screwing there caps on may not have helped yes they got in to it then the M.P. showed up nocked on every one's head and drag the Marines and Navy off to the brig with bad headaches now you ask why simple truedission not only that but you had to do something for fun not to worrie there commanding officer got them out the next day ok they may have got busted a rank or two but it was good old fashion American Navy truedission fun :-)
Mmm mmm he said.
College pennants on the wall from Northwestern and Indiana University. Yet he acts like a complete doofus.
They look like the Village People.
I your name in full......
There's always a wise guy. XD I noticed some of their lips didn't move during the oath. After watching some modern ones I was half expecting "HOW BOUT SOME F*CKING MOTIVATION, IS THAT UNDERSTOOD!?"
I see dead people. The youngest in this movie from 1943 is at least 95 years old in 2021. I presume they are all dead.
Not necessarily! My neighbor was in the Navy, WWII, age 98.
I bet you're fun at parties.
As a Sailor, you OWE it to your shipmates, your country and your Mother to wind up face-down in the gutter before reporting back to duty! 😁😁😁