Title:IRAQI BORDER POLICE TRAINING DRILLS, FEBRUARY 2006 (TAPE 2) [Allocated Title]
Film Number:BFV 299
Other titles:BRITISH MILITARY OPERATIONS IN IRAQ, 2006 [Allocated Series Title]
Summary: Training of members of the Bureau of Border Inspections by 1st Battalion the Royal Regiment of Fusiliers.
Description: START 00:41:25 Black screen followed by bars.
00:41:53 British soldier on patrol at border checkpoint. Vehicles of various kinds (including border police pick-up trucks with armed officers, and a convoy of supplies) drive through. Equipment is lowered from the backs of the trucks.
00:43:51 British soldiers of 1st Battalion the Royal Regiment of Fusiliers (1 RRF), wearing berets and hackles, meet members of the Bureau of Border Inspections on the border. One of the Iraqis is wearing a black ski-mask, sunglasses and gloves (this is the interpreter, hiding his identity).
00:44:32 General views of the fort; Iraqi flag flies from the roof. Close-up of Iraqi shoulder flash.
00:44:48 Iraqi Border Patrol officers sit on the ground in a line ready for training. They are given instruction in contact drills by British soldiers.
00:47:41 Training in contact drills for personnel riding in the back of Porder Police pick-up trucks.
00:48:25 Close-up of falcon badge on the side of a Border Police pick-up, followed by close shots of Iraqis during concat drill training, closely mentored by British soldiers.
00:49:31 Line of Snatch Land Rovers parked by the side of the range.
00:50:02 Further training of Border Police. British officer explains gun procedures, then inspects Iraqi personnel as they crouch and aim their weapons. Second cameraman films group of Iraqis.
END 00:52:48
Alternative Title:BRITISH MILITARY OPERATIONS IN IRAQ, 2006 [Allocated Series Title]
Colour:Colour
Digitised:
Object_Number:BFV 299
Sound:Sound
Access Conditions:IWM
Featured Period:
Production Date:2006-02
Production Country: GB
Production Details: Defence Media Operations Centre, RAF Uxbridge (Royal Navy Combat Camera Team) (Production company)
Personalities, Units and Organisations: Iraqi Department of Border Enforcement, Bureau of Border Inspections (regiment/service)
British Army, Royal Regiment of Fusiliers, 1st Battalion (regiment/service)
Keywords: 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: 11 mins
