Other titles:COLLECTION OF DEFENCE MEDIA OPERATIONS CENTRE (DMOC) VIDEOS [Allocated Series Title]
Summary: Members of the IRT at the COB (Contingency Operating Base), Basra Air Station. The IRT provide support and security to the MERT (Medical Emergency Response Team), a helicopter-borne team of medics.
Description: I. The IRT prepare for an exercise. Sergeant Leanne Kirkwood explains the situation, followed by simulation, from the receipt of the telephone call. Sergeant Kirkwood reports to ops room to see the situation; the team then uplifts its weapons and heads out to the helicopter (team includes a force protection element). Briefing on board Merlin. Demonstration of the team deploying from the helicopter and forming a circle of protection around the "casualty", who is placed on a stretcher and given oxygen. His "wounds" are inspected. Sergeant Kirkwood describes the incident that the simulation is based on (an Iraqi man who had suffered chest wounds from an improvised explosive device). Demonstration of how little space there is in the back of a Merlin helicopter for the IRT team to operate. Member of the team gives and update to camera
II. Group interview with Trooper Stevie Wharton, Corporal Lee Johnson and Andrew Joynson of 1 Royal Tank Regiment, thanking the receipt of the Gold Award for Heroism from the Liverpool Echo newspaper: a thank-you message is recorded among much mirth. Individual thank-you messages are also recorded.
III. Pieces to camera by Captain Lorna Ward of the Combat Camera Team.
Alternative Title:COLLECTION OF DEFENCE MEDIA OPERATIONS CENTRE (DMOC) VIDEOS [Allocated Series Title]
Colour:Colour
Digitised:
Object_Number:BFV 1058
Sound:Sound
Access Conditions:IWM
Featured Period:2001-2025
Production Date:2007-11-24
Production Country: GB
Production Details: Defence Media Operations Centre (Production company)
Holmes, Andy (Corporal, RAF) (Production individual)
Personalities, Units and Organisations: Kirkwood, Leanne (person)
Ward, Lorna (person)
Wharton, Stevie (person)
Johnson, Lee (person)
Joynson, Andrew (person)
Royal Air Force, 903 Wing (regiment/service)
Keywords: Royal Air Force post-2000 (theme)
Iraq post-2003 (theme)
