Title:AFGHAN NATIONAL ARMY COMMANDO FORCE 333, APRIL 2007 (EDIT) [Allocated Title]
Film Number:BFV 1227
Other titles:COLLECTION OF DEFENCE MEDIA OPERATIONS CENTRE (DMOC) VIDEOS [Allocated Series Title]
Summary: Roughly edited scenes showing the Afghan National Army's specialist Commando Force 333, an anti-drug task force working alongside the Afghan Special Narcotics Force, in Afghanistan, 2007.
Description: I. General views of military ranges outside Kabul (Camp Morehead?). Demonstration on the range showing the interdiction of vehicles and their occupants by the Afghan National Army's specialist Commando Force 333, who are deployed by a Mil Mi-8MT helicopter (YA-94311, registered to the Afghan Special Narcotics Force). The commandos are backed up on the ground by ANA pick-up trucks. Helicopters land and pick up the soldiers and their captives.
II. Colours ceremony for Afghan Commando Force 333, at which they are awarded their badges.
III. Open air drug laboratory demonstration. Various drugs are displayed on tables; Afghan drugs officers describe the procedures that drug dealerspreparing drugs in their makeshift open air "laboratories". The various stages in the preparation of the drugs are described and demonstrated. (Demonstration is in Pashto, translated via interpreter into English.) The demonstration ends with the laboratory being "raided" by Commando Force 333 who take the "drug lords" away; a protesting crowd is restrained. Commandos line up for the camera.
IV. Item I is repeated, this time with faces greyed out.
Alternative Title:COLLECTION OF DEFENCE MEDIA OPERATIONS CENTRE (DMOC) VIDEOS [Allocated Series Title]
Colour:Colour
Digitised:No
Object_Number:BFV 1227
Sound:Sound
Access Conditions:IWM
Featured Period:2001-2025
Production Date:2007-04
Production Country: GB
Production Details: Defence Media Operations Centre (Production company)
Punter, Paul (Production individual)
Personalities, Units and Organisations: Afghan National Army, Commando Force 333 (regiment/service)
Afghan Special Narcotics Force (regiment/service)
Keywords: Kabul, Afghanistan (geography)
British Operations in Afghanistan from 2002 (event)
Afghanistan post-2001 (theme)
