Title:PRESS BRIEFING AT 3 COMMANDO HEADQUARTERS PRIOR TO KOSOVO DEPLOYMENT, 8 AUGUST 2000 [Allocated Title]
Film Number:BFM 433
Other titles:COLLECTION OF ROYAL MARINES TAPES [Allocated Title]
Summary: Brigadier Robert Fry, Commanding Officer of 3 Commando Brigade and future Commander of Multinational Brigade Centre, gives a press briefing prior to his brigade's deployment to Kosovo as part of Operation Agricola IV.
Description: Brigadier Fry sits at a desk in a briefing room at 3 Commando Brigade's headquarters at RMB Stonehous, Plymouth; he sits facing several members of the press (and camera crews). He describes the fact that most of the Commandos are coming straight from other deployments (42 Commando from Sierra Leone, 40 Commando from Northern Ireland etc). He also notes that Operation Agricola IV will be the first pre-planned deployment by 3 Commando for "some considerable time", and that the impact that the deployment would have on Britain's amphibious capabilities had been thought through beforehand. He gives background on the political stituation in Kosovo (with municipal elections on the near horizon) and answers questions at the end.
Outside RMB Stonehouse, Brigadier Fry records individual messages for television crews.
Alternative Title:COLLECTION OF ROYAL MARINES TAPES [Allocated Title]
