Title:OPERATION TELIC 3: BASRA, ONE YEAR ON (RAF MOBILE NEWS TEAM TAPE 3) [Allocated Title]
Film Number:BFR 194
Other titles:RAF STRIKE COMMAND MOBILE NEWS TEAM - MAY 2008 DELIVERY [Allocated Series Title]
Summary: RAF medical activities in Basra one year after the invasion of Iraq.
Description: Medics from Aeromedical centre at Basra airport at night, and race for their Land Rover (staged scene; cameraman asks officer to do it again). Scene on the apron at Basra International Airport: a C17 Globemaster, adapted with a medical area for the transporting of stretchered casualties, stands with its rear loading door open. Medics and firemen load casualties (on stretchers) from the back of a Land Rover Battlefield Ambulance and carry them into the curtained medical area on the aircraft. Chinook taxies past; another patient (possibly from the Chinook) is stretchered across the apron. Medic carries patients' bags onto aircraft. Patients are attended to by team of medics (some in high-visibility jackets); saline drips are attached to the rails above the stretcher/beds. Aircrew of the C17 talk to medics. Boxes of medical equipment and gas cylinders are sorted out; patients are strapped in prior to flight.
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)
Blunden, Jennie (Production individual)
Personalities, Units and Organisations:
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: 12 mins
