Title:TROOP ARRIVAL AND WELFARE, KANDAHAR AIRFIELD, AFGHANISTAN, OCTOBER 2007 [Allocated Title]
Film Number:BFV 1298
Other titles:COLLECTION OF DEFENCE MEDIA OPERATIONS CENTRE (DMOC) VIDEOS [Allocated Series Title]
Summary: Welfare facilities and reception areas at Kandahar Airfield.
Description: Soldiers (male and female) exercise with medicine in gymnasium at Kandahar as music plays and instructor shouts orders. Sign "Sports Hall" giving details of activities. Instructor leads a second session.
Soldiers (most still in their camouflage fatigues) watch a feature film ("The Running Man") in the small cinema.
Aircraft movements at night on Kandahar Airfield; troops arrive and disembark (very dark). The new arrivals enter a large reception tent and gather. Interview with Lieutenant John Foster, 1 Platoon Commander, Salonika Company, the Rifles. He talks about preparation and the journey to Kandahar. (The unit is ultimately charged with force protection at Camp Bastion.) In the reception tent, the assembled soldiers receive a briefing from reception personnel. Interview with Rifelman Watson (5 Rifles attached to 7 Rifles), also assigned to Force protection at Camp Bastion, talking about preparation for Afghanistan including weapons training. Desk marked "BASTION/KABUL": service personnel heading for these destinations register with the reception staff.
Classroom seminar on the subject of communications, with soldiers and instructor. Computer sessions at the E-Learning Facility: soldiers use courses devised by the Defence Electronic Learning Centre (DELC).
Classrroom at the Joint Theatre Education Centre (JTEC): also exterior shots of the building.
Exterior shots of other welfare facilities at Kandahar, including the Piacetto Cafe (interior and exterior) and British Forces Post Office (BFPO).
Alternative Title:COLLECTION OF DEFENCE MEDIA OPERATIONS CENTRE (DMOC) VIDEOS [Allocated Series Title]
Colour:Colour
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Object_Number:BFV 1298
Sound:Sound
Access Conditions:IWM
Featured Period:2001-2025
Production Date:2007-10
Production Country: GB
Production Details: Defence Media Operations Centre (Production company)
Blunden, Jennie (Production individual)
Personalities, Units and Organisations: British Army, The Rifles (regiment/service)
Keywords: Kandahar, Afghanistan (geography)
British Army post-2000 (theme)
