Title:DEFENCE SECRETARY DES BROWNE AND PRIME MINISTER GORDON BROWN VISIT CAMP BASTION, 10 DECEMBER 2007 [Allocated Title]
Film Number:BFV 1334
Other titles:COLLECTION OF DEFENCE MEDIA OPERATIONS CENTRE (DMOC) VIDEOS [Allocated Series Title]
Summary: The Secretary of State for Defence Des Browne, visits British forces in Afghanistan; also brief shots of PM Gordon Brown on the same visit..
Description: Defence Secretary Des Browne talks with Army medics and inspects their kit. Sign for "Brydon Lines". Tour of the United Kingdom Joint Force Medical Group's emergency facilities. He goes on to inspect Chinook helicopter operated by the MERT (Medical Emergency Response Team). Later, he visits other areas of Bastion, and inspects equipment and weaponry of the Army Air Force's Apache helicopters; he climbs on board an Apapche to get a closer look.
Prime Minister Gordon Brown arrives in Bastion, and talks to assembles troops.
Alternative Title:COLLECTION OF DEFENCE MEDIA OPERATIONS CENTRE (DMOC) VIDEOS [Allocated Series Title]
Colour:Colour
Digitised:No
Object_Number:BFV 1334
Sound:Sound
Access Conditions:IWM
Featured Period:2001-2025
Production Date:2007-12-10
Production Country: GB
Production Details: Defence Media Operations Centre (Production company)
Scott, Alex (Corporal, RAF) (Production individual)
Personalities, Units and Organisations: Brown, Gordon (person)
Browne, Desmond Henry (person)
United Kingdom Joint Force Medical Group, Medical Emergency Response Team (regiment/service)
British Army, Army Air Corps (regiment/service)
Keywords: Camp Bastion, Helmand, Afghanistan (geography)
British Operations in Afghanistan from 2002 (event)
British Army post-2000 (theme)
Afghanistan post-2001 (theme)
