62K views · 430 reactions | WATCH: "Assignment Iran" (1963) Saturday at 10pm & SUNDAY at 4pm ET on C-SPAN3's Reel America. U.S. Army report that follows an Army adviser through his Fort Bragg, North Carolina special forces training, Persian language school in California, and two-year assignment in Iran helping to create and train a special forces group there. Series: https://www.c-span.org/series/?reelAmerica | American History TV | Facebook

Now view this! Throughout World War II, the U.S. War Department produced numerous training films for new military recruits to help increase the knowledge and retention on various military tasks, tactics, and vehicle/weapon capabilities aside from the published field and technical manuals. Today, we share with you all War Department Film Bulletin No. 181 which compares U.S. and German automatic weapons as of 1943. This training film was designed to increase the awareness for American service memb