Title:SCOTS GUARDS, AFGHANISTAN, OCTOBER 2007 (TAPE 1) [Allocated Title]
Film Number:BFV 1299
Other titles:COLLECTION OF DEFENCE MEDIA OPERATIONS CENTRE (DMOC) VIDEOS [Allocated Series Title]
Summary: Members of the Scots Guards in Afghanistan, on the edge of the "Green Zone" in the Sangin Valley, a fertile area which has been a Taliban stronghold.
Description: Warrior armoured vehicle park at FOB Arnhem. Interview with Major Chris Bell, Commanding Officer, Armoured Infantry Company, the Scots Guards, discussing the use of Warrior armoured vehicles in Helmand (a relatively new addition to the area).
Interior of watchtower; soldier trains his gun across the landscape. Warrior vehicles drive past. Sun begins to set; soldier uses his monocular to look across the landscape.
Night footage, shot with image intensifier: interior of makeshift quarters at FOB Arnhem.
Morning: map briefing for platoon, who are all sat around a table.
Interview with Captain Michael Bendiksen, a Danish Army CIMIC (Civil-Military Cooperation) officer about his role in talking to the local people and identifying future CIMIC projects (roads, schools, health clinics).
Soldiers outside Arhem; Warriors drive around the area and drop off platoon of soldiers who go on patrol, supported by the Warriors. They check vulnerable points such as culverts. Platoon on the move and keeping watch. Local people pass; Captain Bendiksen talks with local men through interpreter..Soldier takes a photograph of local children.
Second interview with Captain Bendiksen, discussing the events of the patrol.
Alternative Title:COLLECTION OF DEFENCE MEDIA OPERATIONS CENTRE (DMOC) VIDEOS [Allocated Series Title]
Colour:Colour
Digitised:
Object_Number:BFV 1299
Sound:Sound
Access Conditions:IWM
Featured Period:2001-2025
Production Date:2007-10
Production Country: GB
Production Details: Defence Media Operations Centre (Production company)
Blunden, Jennie (Production individual)
Personalities, Units and Organisations: Bell, Chris (person)
Bendiksen, Michael (person)
British Army, Scots Guards (regiment/service)
Royal Danish Army (regiment/service)
Keywords: Sangin Valley, Helmand, Afghanistan (geography)
Helmand, Afghanistan (geography)
British Operations in Afghanistan from 2002 (event)
British Army post-2000 (theme)
Afghanistan post-2001 (theme)
