Title:PARACHUTE REGIMENT ON PATROL, GERESHK, AFGHANISTAN, 18-19 JUNE 2006 (EDIT) [Allocated Title]
Film Number:BFV 1196 V1
Other titles:COLLECTION OF DEFENCE MEDIA OPERATIONS CENTRE (DMOC) VIDEOS [Allocated Series Title]
Summary: Members of 8 Platoon, 3rd Battalion the Parachute Regiment, based at FOB Price near Gereshk, set out on a 24-hour patrol in their WMIK Land Rovers; they are accompanied by XA-180 armoured vehicles of the Estonian Ground Force.
Description: SHOTSHEET (copied, without amendment, from accompanying Defence Media Operations Centre computer disc):
START 00:30:00 Soldiers loading up the vehicles and testing satellite comms prior to deploying patrol includes Estonian Armoured personnel carriers.
01:30:00 Patrol departs. Shots of vehicles moving through camp and out of gate.
02:14:00 Various shots of vehicle snaking over rough terrain.
03:40:00 Patrol receives reports of an Afghan police post coming under attack so they move to get a better view of the incident.
03:57:00 Soldiers set up all round defence.
04:28:00 Soldiers on satellite comms.
04:53:00 Incident passes with out British intervention so Platoon continue with patrol through a valley into a small village. Various shots of soldiers moving on foot through a rocky valley into the village.
11:24:00 Long shot of village as troops move in.
11:42:00 The remains of last years poppy crop drying.
11:52:00 Silhouettes of soldiers and WMIK are on ridge line as the local mosque sends out the call to prayer.
12:20:00 Soldiers withdrawing from village as call to prayer still happening.
12:32:00 Locals watching their flock as soldiers leave village.
12:40:00 More soldiers moving along ridge in twilight.
13:54:00 Shots of vehicles moving towards another village on the morning of the 19 jun '06. Remains of a old Fort from Alexander the Greats era in the Background.
14:56:00 Lt Chris Hutchins briefs the troop leaders on the patrol plan.
16:12:00 Various shots of soldiers using weapon sights.
17:28:00 Lt Hutchins PTC about what he is trying to achieve but doing the patrol. He trips over his words mid sentence
18:02:00 Soldiers moving through fields.
19:05:00 An Afghan farmer ploughing his field.
19:33:00 Lt Hutchins asks a local farmer about the problems he and his family are experiencing with the Taliban etc. Interpreter is very softly spoken which makes it hard to understand the farmers answers.
21:50:00 Farmers sifting grain by hand.
22:13:00 Soldiers moving through fields. Lt Hutchins questions 2 more farmers about the Taliban.
29:38:00 Soldiers moving through narrow alleyway with curious Afghan children following.
30:00:00 Soldiers moving along a river bank.
30:23:00 Lt Hutchins talking to a local again.
31:26:00 Soldiers crossing bridge and being pulled up steep bank.
32:20:00 Lt Hutchins talking to a local again.
35:20:00 Soldiers moving out of the village through enclosed roads.
36:00:00 Tape Ends.
Alternative Title:COLLECTION OF DEFENCE MEDIA OPERATIONS CENTRE (DMOC) VIDEOS [Allocated Series Title]
Colour:Colour
Digitised:
Object_Number:BFV 1196 V1
Sound:Sound
Access Conditions:
Featured Period:2001-2025
Production Date:2006-06-18 2006-06-19
Production Country: GB
Production Details: Defence Media Operations Centre (Production company)
Punter, Paul (Production individual)
Personalities, Units and Organisations: Hutchins, Chris (person)
British Army, Parachute Regiment, 3rd Battalion (regiment/service)
Estonian Ground Force (regiment/service)
Keywords: FOB Price, Helmand, Afghanistan (geography)
Gereshk, Helmand, Afghanistan (geography)
British Operations in Afghanistan from 2002 (event)
British Army post-2000 (theme)
Afghanistan post-2001 (theme)
