Title:OPERATION TELIC 5, IRAQ: OPERATION CHRISTMAS SLEIGH, BASRA, DECEMBER 2004 (RAF MOBILE NEWS TEAM TAPE 7) [Allocated Title]
Film Number:BFR 187
Other titles:RAF STRIKE COMMAND MOBILE NEWS TEAM - MAY 2008 DELIVERY [Allocated Series Title]
Summary: RAF personnel at Basra International Airport, Iraq record Christmas messages for loved ones back in the United Kingdom.
Description: I. Christmas messages from Sarah Lambert (interview continued from previous tape), Corporal Ian Rowan (?), Sergeant Dean Simons.
II. PVCP (permanent vehicle checkpoint) at entrance to Basra APOD: elevated watchtower with Military Police guard. Vehicles and Iraqi personnel are checked before being allowed in. Interview with Corporal Ian Curtis in the watchtower who also gives a message to his wife.
III. Interview with Senior Aircraftman Gareth Edwards; he is also seen working on equipment.
IV. Corporal Emma Jones(41 Squadron), Deputy Chief Clerk, at work; she is also interviewed and records her Christmas message.
V. Interview with Senior Aircraftman Calvin Schofield, assisting with supplies for the Joint Helicopter Force. Christmas message back to family in Macclesfield.
Christmas messages from the RAF Police Flight at Basra: Corporal Kerry Baynham, Corporal Ross Williams, Sergeant Nige Hodgkiss (RAF Police), Corporal Jenny Lundy, Corporal Edwards (MT), Corporal Duncan Lowell. Group interview with four of them, all from Herefordshire.
VII. Interview and Christmas message from Sergeant Tony Martin (RAF PT instructor, working at Basra with all three services).
Alternative Title:RAF STRIKE COMMAND MOBILE NEWS TEAM - MAY 2008 DELIVERY [Allocated Series Title]
Production Details: Royal Air Force (Production sponsor)
RAF Strike Command Media Services (Video) Mobile News Team (Production company)
Burns, Emily (Production individual)
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Keywords:
Physical Characteristics: Colour format: Colour
Sound format: Sound
Soundtrack language: English
Title language: None
Subtitle language: None
Technical Details: Format: DVCPRO
Number of items/reels/tapes: 1
Tape length: 33; Running time: 31 mins
