Title:OPERATION BRACKEN: THE BLACK WATCH SOUTH OF BAGHDAD, 2004 (TAPE 16) [Allocated Title]
Film Number:BFA 2826
Other titles:HEADQUARTERS LAND COMMAND ARMY 2004 COLLECTION [Allocated Series Title]
Summary: Members of the Black Watch Battlegroup move up to Forward Operating Base (FOB) Springfield.
Description: START 16:00:00 Bar and tones.
16:00:30 DROPS vehicles unload pallets of matériel at FOB Springfield (a bleak outpost in the desert). Vehicles move into the FOB.
16:02:39 Statement by Captain Nick Ord (Black Watch operations officer) giving details of interdiction operations against the enemy and the setting up of FOB Springfield.
16:04:13 Captain Neil Tomlin (Black Watch adjutant) makes a statement about the injuries, during a suicide bomb attack, to Corporal Neil Heritage of the Royal Logistic Corps and Corporal Michael Brennan of the Royal Signals, bomb disposal experts who were attached to the Black Watch battle group.
16:05:20 Timecode reset
00:03:20 BBC Pool rushes of Black Watch Pipe Major playing the pipes on the strategic Jurf Kas Sukr Bridge on the river Euphrates southwest of Baghdad as Challenger tanks stand guard.
END 00:11:11
Alternative Title:HEADQUARTERS LAND COMMAND ARMY 2004 COLLECTION [Allocated Series Title]
Production Details: UK Land Media Ops (Production sponsor)
Headquarters Land Command Mobile News Team (Production company)
Brownbridge, Paul (Production individual)
Personalities, Units and Organisations:
Keywords:
Physical Characteristics: Colour format: Colour
Sound format: Sound
Soundtrack language: English
Title language: None
Subtitle language: None
Technical Details: Format: DVCPRO
Number of items/reels/tapes: 1
Tape length: 33; Running time: 17 mins (ca)
