Title:NURSES OF THE IMMEDIATE RESPONSE TEAM, BASRA AIR STATION, 7 MARCH 2007 [Allocated Title]
Film Number:BFV 889
Other titles:COLLECTION OF DEFENCE MEDIA OPERATIONS CENTRE VIDEOS [Allocated Title]
Summary: Members of the Immediate Response Team (IRT), a helicopter medical unit of the Tactical Medical Wing, are interviewed at Basra.
Description: Sergeant Hayley Vendyback of the IRT lies on the tarmac during a (staged) IDF (indirect fire) attack (laughter both in front of and behind the camera). (This is a reconstruction of an incident that happened to Sergeant Vendyback upon her initial arrival in Extended shot of Lynx helicopter being prepared in the background. Interviews on board the helicopter with Sergeant Helen Victoria Dillon and Sergeant Vendyback of the IRT. The nurses are then seen preparing their medical kit on a Merlin helicopter; they demonstrate breathing apparatus and check the contents of the emergency bag. Staged shots of them walking to the helicopter (shot from both the apron and the interior of the Merlin). They finish preparing their kit and strap themselves into their seats. General view of Merlin helicopter. Final sequence with Sergeant Dillon shows the interior of IRT accommodation (where the members of the team rest when on night call); bunks are covered with mosquito netting.
Alternative Title:COLLECTION OF DEFENCE MEDIA OPERATIONS CENTRE VIDEOS [Allocated Title]
Colour:Colour
Digitised:No
Object_Number:BFV 889
Sound:Sound
Access Conditions:IWM
Featured Period:
Production Date:2007-03-07
Production Country: GB
Production Details: Defence Media Operations Centre (Production sponsor)
Tilly, Ross (Corporal, RAF) (Production individual)
Personalities, Units and Organisations: Vendyback, Hayley (person)
Dillon, Helen Victoria (person)
Royal Air Force, Tactical Medical Wing (regiment/service)
Keywords: Basra International Airport, Basra, Iraq (geography)
Operation Telic, Iraq War 2003-2009 (event)
Royal Air Force 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: 28 mins
