Other titles:COLLECTION OF DEFENCE MEDIA OPERATIONS CENTRE (DMOC) VIDEOS [Allocated Series Title]
Summary: Scenes from the disaster relief exercise Xenon Mercury, organised by Joint Forces Headquarters (JFHQ) in conjunction with the civilian Department for International Development (DfID).
Description: Brief shot of soldiers asleep on a coach.
Soldiers climb on board an RAF Hercules aircraft (already stacked with supplies) for the flight to Mozambique. Views from the flight deck during the journey; the African landscape can be seen below.
Scenes on the ground: soldiers erect lines of small tents. Larger tents are also erected.
Briefing inside for Operation Dobermann (the actual disaster relief operation) in air conditioned tent.
Field kitchen is set up in one of the large tents: close-up of field kitchen burner. More equipment and furniture are brought in. Group of soldiers gather around a map laid on top of a kitchen container; the scale is trimmed off as a measuring aid. The flood area is marked on the map. by a cartographer.
Round table discussion in tent by officers planning the disaster relief. (All three services are represented.)
Makeshift barrier and checkpoint at the edge of the camp. Supplies are moved by fork lift truck. Further large tents are constructed with solid tubular frame.
Interview with spokesman for the British Army about the involvement in the operation (simulated press).
Alternative Title:COLLECTION OF DEFENCE MEDIA OPERATIONS CENTRE (DMOC) VIDEOS [Allocated Series Title]
Colour:Colour
Digitised:No
Object_Number:BFV 1264
Sound:Sound
Access Conditions:IWM
Featured Period:2001-2025
Production Date:2007-01
Production Country: GB
Production Details: Defence Media Operations Centre (Production company)
Blunden, Jennie (Production individual)
Personalities, Units and Organisations: British Army (regiment/service)
Royal Air Force (regiment/service)
(regiment/service)
Keywords: Mozambique (geography)
British Army post-2000 (theme)
