Return With Honor
Return With Honor
“Return With Honor” is a documentary about many brave Air Force pilots who were taken as P.O.W.’s (prisoners of war) in the Vietnam war. The documentary shows the viewpoints of the pilots as they were kept as prisoners in Honai, North Vietnam in the last 9 years of the Vietnam war.
The documentary starts out with the pilots going through training camp. Each person has to take a class where they learn everything about the aircraft that they will be controlling and what to do in certain scenarios that would require them to act on their feet. The training camp focuses on increasing the pilots mental awareness while putting them under pressure for the majority of the time. On top of the classroom environment, the privates are required to go through a boot camp where they are pushed to their physical limits while keeping their mental composure. Video footage shows a drill sergeant yelling at a private to “throw dirt on your head”. This was probably to help protect the privates from explosions or other harmful situations. Unfortunately, not every private makes it through boot camp, many cannot handle the physical and mental abuse and drop out before the end. The ones that do graduate finally learn how to fly fighter jets. Some of the pilots that are interviewed explain to the viewer how good it feels to fly a jet. They describe the amount of throttle that they control and how they can use it however they want. They describe flying fighter jets as an art; being able to free fall and maneuver through the sky at free will is an indescribable feeling for people who have never flown before.
After they explain their days in training, the pilots go into discussing the war they fight in. They say how they know that the war is a lost cause but they fight anyways to defend their country. The documentary shows the address that president Lyndon B. Johnson gave to let the American population know that he was sending the Air Force into Vietnam. What
“Return With Honor” is a documentary about many brave Air Force pilots who were taken as P.O.W.’s (prisoners of war) in the Vietnam war. The documentary shows the viewpoints of the pilots as they were kept as prisoners in Honai, North Vietnam in the last 9 years of the Vietnam war.
The documentary starts out with the pilots going through training camp. Each person has to take a class where they learn everything about the aircraft that they will be controlling and what to do in certain scenarios that would require them to act on their feet. The training camp focuses on increasing the pilots mental awareness while putting them under pressure for the majority of the time. On top of the classroom environment, the privates are required to go through a boot camp where they are pushed to their physical limits while keeping their mental composure. Video footage shows a drill sergeant yelling at a private to “throw dirt on your head”. This was probably to help protect the privates from explosions or other harmful situations. Unfortunately, not every private makes it through boot camp, many cannot handle the physical and mental abuse and drop out before the end. The ones that do graduate finally learn how to fly fighter jets. Some of the pilots that are interviewed explain to the viewer how good it feels to fly a jet. They describe the amount of throttle that they control and how they can use it however they want. They describe flying fighter jets as an art; being able to free fall and maneuver through the sky at free will is an indescribable feeling for people who have never flown before.
After they explain their days in training, the pilots go into discussing the war they fight in. They say how they know that the war is a lost cause but they fight anyways to defend their country. The documentary shows the address that president Lyndon B. Johnson gave to let the American population know that he was sending the Air Force into Vietnam. What