Title:SCENES AT FOB INKERMAN, JANUARY 2009 (TAPE 3) [Allocated Title]
Film Number:BFM 294
Other titles:COLLECTION OF ROYAL MARINES TAPES [Allocated Title]
Summary: Operations of Y Company, 45 Commando Royal Marines, at Forward Operating Base Inkerman in the Upper Sangin Valley during Operation Ghartse Palang.
Description: Y Company on patrol outside FOB Inkerman (some shaky camerawork); occasional distant gunfire can be heard. Patrol rests in compound (field burns in the background). Later, a MERT (Medical Emergency Response Team) Chinook helicopter flies in to pick up local casualties; it lands behind trees. Patrol returns to base. Interview with Major Richard Parvin, OC Y Company, discussing the completion of Stage Three of Operation Ghartse Palang and the denial of weapons from the Taliban.
ROYAL MARINES VIDEO PRODUCTION UNIT SHOTSHEET
The following has been copied, without amendment, from RMVPU electronic shotsheets:
00.00 BARS
00:30 Patrol in ditch, contact in distance
04:35 8 troop in compound- Mne behind burning field XXX
06:31 Sniper pair climbs on roof
08:29 MERT helo lands in GZ to pick up LN casualties
10:46 Y COY patrols back into FOB
15:00 OC Y COY Maj Parvin piece to camera
17:44 TAPE ENDS
Alternative Title:COLLECTION OF ROYAL MARINES TAPES [Allocated Title]
Production Details: Royal Marines Video Production Unit (Production company)
Cooper (Production individual)
Personalities, Units and Organisations: Parvin, Richard (person)
Royal Navy, Royal Marines, 45 Commando, Y Company (regiment/service)
British Army, Royal Engineers (regiment/service)
Keywords: FOB Inkerman, Helmand, Afghanistan (geography)
British Operations in Afghanistan from 2002 (event)
Royal Marines (theme)
Afghanistan post-2001 (theme)
