Summary: Dramatised Army Instructional film, with a foreword by Field Marshal Montgomery, then Chief of the Imperial General Staff, speaking on the importance of basic training. The film itself is aimed at young men just called up for National Service, and follows a group of men as they arrive for basic training. They are shown meeting their unit NCOs and officers, being issued with uniforms and starting to learn basic military skills such as drill, weapons handling and tactics in the field. Relationships between the men are examined as friction develops between some members of the platoon, but their ability to work as a team is shown when they work together to rescue a cat from a pub roof. Finally the platoon passes out and leaves for the next phase of Army service, passing a new group of National Servicemen as they go.
