“AIRLIFTER’S BACK-UP TEAM” 1960s U.S. AIR FORCE RESERVE PROMO MILITARY AIR TRANSPORT SERVICE 33784

This 1960s color film produced by Ray Jewell and Adam Ooms for the United States Air Force promotes the Military Airlift Command’s Reserve Associate Program, showing how civilians with day jobs might join defense efforts via the piloting program. Designed to drive enlistment, this propaganda film emphasizes good eats, vocational training, and sightseeing opportunities over the risks and consequences of military action during the Vietnam War era (TRT: 23:13). The seal of the “United States of America Department of the Air Force” (0:08). Host Don Robin introduces himself at an office desk. “In civilian life, I sell life insurance, but… I frequently pilot a cargo and troop-carrying jet.” A scale model of a Lockheed C-141 Starlifter is indicated (0:26). Inside the cockpit of an Air Force carrier. Opening titles: “Airlifter’s Back-Up Team, the Military Airlift Command’s Reserve Associate Program” (0:42). The interview with Robin resumes, focusing on the C-141 Starlifter, an airlift that served with the Military A