Title:MEDICAL FACILITIES AT SHAIBAH LOGISTICS BASE, OCTOBER 2005 (TAPE 1) [Allocated Title]
Film Number:BFV 269
Other titles:BRITISH MILITARY OPERATIONS IN IRAQ, 2005 [Allocated Series Title]
Summary: Scenes at the Primary Healthcare Centre based at Shaibah Logistics Base.
Description: START 00:00:00 Bars.
00:00:30 Interior of "C Stores": stock is checked in the various plastic containers. Supplies and medicines are issued from stock. Stock clerk (army) inspect contents; one carries a file labelled "ISO WD 2 REPLEN LIST UK MED GROUP". Medicines (including penicillin) are collected for dispensing.
00:06:37 Exterior of facility (surrounded by concrete bunker). Medical orderlies (in desert uniform) walk torwards the camera. They enter medical store (several takes). Sign on door reads "MED STORES ISO 1 25-Aug-95". (ISO refers to the fact that the stores are still being stored in the ISO containers that they were originally shipped in.)
00:09:07 View through open rear doors of ambulance, showing the facilities available in the vehicle. Further exterior and interior views (it is a battlefield ambulance). Close-ups of resuscitation equipment. Exterior views with close-up of Red Cross.
00:13:07 "Blue Light Matrix" ambulance crews relax in rest room (no sound). Close-up of gun racks. Close-up of BLM ("Blue Light Matrix") Red Cross. Crews scramble and put on their gear ready for call-out, then pick up their personal weapons before leaving.
00:16:18 Further rest room scenes (still without sound). Team scrambles for a call-out as before.
00:18:00 Ambulance parked outside concrete barriers; BLM team deploys accompanied by two Snatch Land Rovers. (Two takes, with sound.) Shaky shots of exterior of facilities (poor). Close-ups of ambulances and Land Rovers, which drive off (on either side of the camera).
00:26:48 Interview with Major Mark Thorpe, senior medical officer at the Primary Healthcare Centre at Shaibah Logistics Base; topics include the drawbacks of using tented facilities (including confidentiality; voices can travel very easily through the tented walls).
00:34:00 Close-ups of hand washing station in use.
00:37:03 Interior of medical ward at the tented facility; soldiers rest. Close-ups of saline drip and heart monitor.
00:39:15 Defibrillator machine.
00:39:33 CAT scan machine. Doctor checks computer.
END 00:41:36
Alternative Title:BRITISH MILITARY OPERATIONS IN IRAQ, 2005 [Allocated Series Title]
Colour:Colour
Digitised:No
Object_Number:BFV 269
Sound:Sound
Access Conditions:IWM
Featured Period:
Production Date:2005-10-05
Production Country: GB
Production Details: Defence Media Operations Centre, RAF Uxbridge (Royal Navy Combat Camera Team) (Production company)
McIvor, Mac (Production individual)
Personalities, Units and Organisations: Thorpe, Mark (person)
British Army, Royal Army Medical Corps (regiment/service)
Keywords: Shaibah Logistics Base, Shaibah, Iraq (geography)
Operation Telic, Iraq War 2003-2009 (event)
British Army post-2000 (theme)
Iraq post-2003 (theme)
Physical Characteristics: Colour format: Colour
Sound format: Sound
Soundtrack language: English
Title language: None
Subtitle language: None
Technical Details: Format: DVCam
Number of items/reels/tapes: 1
Tape length: 40; Running time: 39 mins
