Title:IMMEDIATE RESPONSE TEAM ROLE AND INTERVIEWS, 5 MAY 2006 [Allocated Title]
Film Number:BFV 757
Other titles:BRITISH MILITARY OPERATIONS IN IRAQ, 2004 [Allocated Series Title]
Summary: Activities of the Immediate Response Team (IRT) of the RAF's Tactical Medical Wing based at Basra Air Station.
Description: START 00:00:00 Bars.
00:00:15 Exercise: IRT crew board Sea King helicopter. Medical team sit on board as it takes off and flies to an "emergency".
00:01:47 Incident area: ground shots as the helicopter hovers overhead. A winch is lowered and a medic on the ground is picked up and winched aboard. Helicopter moves off.
00:03:12 Medics prepare stretcher on the ground; a "casualty" is trapped into position and carried to waiting helicopter and loaded on board.
00:04:40 Long shot of helicopter in flight; member of IRT is winched down to pick up a medic who is still on the ground.
00:06:06 View from Sea King as it taxies at Basra International Airport.
00:06:20 Interview with Sergeant Sandra Graham from RAF Wittering, a volunteer who normally works as an NHS nurse.
00:10:13 Interview with Lieutenant Commander Terry Tyke of 846 Squadron, one of the pilots working with the IRT.
00:11:52 Interview with Private Paul Warner of the West Midlands Regiment (TA) providing force protection to the IRT.
00:13:27 Interview with Corporal Chris Powell, also of the West Midlands Regiment.
END 00:14:44
Alternative Title:BRITISH MILITARY OPERATIONS IN IRAQ, 2004 [Allocated Series Title]
Colour:Colour
Digitised:No
Object_Number:BFV 757
Sound:Sound
Access Conditions:IWM
Featured Period:
Production Date:2004-05-05
Production Country: GB
Production Details: Defence Media Operations Centre, RAF Uxbridge (Army Combat Camera Team) (Production company)
Leach, M A (Production individual)
Personalities, Units and Organisations: Royal Air Force, Tactical Medical Wing (regiment/service)
British Army, West Midlands Regiment (regiment/service)
Keywords: Basra International Airport, Basra, Iraq (geography)
Operation Telic, Iraq War 2003-2009 (event)
British Army post-2000 (theme)
Royal Air Force 1945-2000 (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: 14 mins 30 secs
