Title:OPERATION FIBONACCI, AFGHANISTAN, FEBRUARY 2009 (TAPE 5) [Allocated Title]
Film Number:BFM 315
Other titles:COLLECTION OF ROYAL MARINES TAPES [Allocated Title]
Summary: Brigade Reconnaissance Force (BRF) of 3 Commando Brigade Royal Marines in action.
Description: Members of the BRF prepare their kit at Camp Bastion before driving off in their Jackal armoured vehicle, in convoy with members of the Afghan National Army in pick-up trucks.
Other BRF members board a helicopter (cameraman is on board) which takes off. Second helicopter sequence, this time at night (shot with image intensifier): disembarked troops in the desert (very low light).
Observation post (OP). Two suspected members of the enemy forces (EF) ie Taliban are watched (they can be seen on a mountainside, one half-hidden in a cleft in the rock). Shots are fired at them from sniper rifle and gun with UGL (underslung grenade launcher). It is unclear whether the two Taliban members were hit. Afterwards, the BRF pack up their bergens (backpacks) and set off down a hill.
Jackals driving in the desert, throwing up large amounts of dust, in advance of a Combat Logistics Patrol (CLP) carrying supplies. (Techno music can be heard on radio.) Close-up of gunner on top cover as he prepares to fire warning shots with his .50 calibre gun at a possible enemy target (off screen). There are problems with the gun, which jams, but it is eventually fired. Long shot of CLP in desert
ROYAL MARINES VIDEO PRODUCTION UNIT SHOTSHEET
The following has been copied, without amendment, from RMVPU electronic shotsheets:
00.00 BARS
00:30 BRF prep kit in BSN – various shots
01:45 BRF flag
02:20 BRF prep kit in BSN– various shots
03:37 BRF flag behind barbed wire
04:20 BRF prep kit in BSN– various shots
05:55 BRF leave compound
06:00 GASH
08:15 BRF Jackals move past camera in BSN
10:20 Jackals lined out ready to leave
11:00 Jackals leave BSN
13:13 BRF board helo – high gain shots on board
15:40 NV on board helo
15:50 NV BRF in huddle helo takes off
16:15 NV BRF yomping – very low light
17:45 View from OP of 2 x EF
20:45 Sniper watches EF and fires shot
23:30 GPMP in OP
23:40 Sniper looks thru binos
24:45 UGL rounds fired
25:25 Sniper and UGL gunner watching EF
27:25 UGL fires
27:50 BRF packs up kit
28:50 BRF yomp down hill – ridiculous bergans
29:28 Sniper yomps past camera
30:00 Jackals move twds camera – high angle
30:15 Jackals moving – taken from moving vehicle
31:32 Static Jackals in harbor
32:42 CLP moves twds camera – close ups of vehicles as they pass
38:44 CLP moves past 50 cal in foreground
41:40 CLP moves twds camera lots of dust
45:05 Jackals move off
46:04 50 cal warning shots – stoppages
51:05 V WS CLP in distance
51:52 TAPE ENDS
Alternative Title:COLLECTION OF ROYAL MARINES TAPES [Allocated Title]
