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Title:40 COMMANDO ROYAL MARINES IN AFGHANISTAN, OCTOBER 2007 (TAPE 8) [Allocated Title]
Film Number:BFM 249
Other titles:COLLECTION OF ROYAL MARINES TAPES [Allocated Title]
Summary: Members of C Company, 40 Commando Royal Marines in position on "Essex Ridge" overlooking Risaji, continue their engagement with the Taliban into the night (see previous tape for earlier footage of this engagement).
Description: Night scenes, shot with image intensifier, show the suspect Taliban compound in the distance (image is very grainy). Gun crews keep watch, and a Javelin missile is prepared. WMIK Land Rovers are moved forward. GPMG and 50 calibre guns begin firing sporadically towards the Taliban positions. Tracer fire can be seen, and the Javelin is fired, illuminating the night. Shortly after this, there is incoming fire and the firefight intensifies. (Camera is now at a low angle, as cameraman takes cover in a shell scrape.) Sporadic firing continues for some time. Javelin is prepared for possible second firing. Finally, a fighter aircraft flies over and the target is hit by an airborne 2000lb bomb. Afterwards, all is quiet for a short while, before a mortar bombardment begins. Company withdraws; bombardment continues from other units on a nearby hill.
ROYAL MARINES VIDEO PRODUCTION UNIT SHOTSHEET
The following has been copied, without amendment, from RMVPU electronic shotsheets:
TC In TC Out Description
00:00 00:30 Colour Bars
00:31 02:58 Risagi
02:59 05:05 Sgt Daz Joyce using Javelin Clue
05:06 05:48 MFC and GPMG in SF role in shell scrape with mortars going off in villsge
05:49 06:11 Clue being manned
06:12 07:01 WIMIKs being moved
07:12 07:50 Jonno doing Commando roles
07:53 09:17 GPMG in SF role firing and single shot incoming
09:18 10:33 GPMG in SF role, 50 Cal and tracer
10:34 10:53 Javelin being fired
10:58 11:09 GPMG in SF role and 50 Cal firing
11:10 11:46 50 Cal on WIMIK firing and incoming shots
11:59 13:22 Tracer and incoming
13:23 14:00 GMG and 50 cal on WIMIKs firing with incoming
14:01 15:22 Javelin and GPMG in SF role
15:23 15:42 50 cal on WIMIK firing
15:43 16:08 Tracer
16:09 16:37 GPMG in SF role firing and incoming
16:38 18:09 Javelin with GPMG in SF role firing
18:20 18:58 50 Cal tracer with incoming fire and mortars outgoing
18:59 19:41 2000lb bomb and smoke
19:42 20:26 All gone quiet?
20:27 20:46 Mortars on Risagi
20:47 21:42 GMG on Risagi
21:43 22:50 Extraction with tracer from opposite hill
END
Production Details: Royal Marines Video Production Unit (Production company)
Barnard, Toby (Production individual)
Personalities, Units and Organisations: Royal Navy, Royal Marines, 40 Commando, C Company (regiment/service)
Taliban (regiment/service)
Keywords: Risaji, Helmand, Afghanistan (geography)
British Operations in Afghanistan from 2002 (event)
Royal Marines (theme)
Afghanistan post-2001 (theme)
