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AFGHANISTAN: Helmand: Camp Bastion:
EXT/NIGHT
Setting sun seen beyond British military helicopter, with rotors turning, parked at airfield
Chinook helicopter flying low
Troops along in darkness to helicopter
INT
Helicopoter inside hangar
RAF engineers working on helicopter
Engineer manoeuvring engine on crane hoist
More engineers working on bodywork
Lieutenant Colonel Mike Smith (Commander, Joint Helicopter Force) interview SOT
- saying what we've got now is incomparable to what we operated with in Iraq
EXT/DAY
Low Angle shot of troops walking towards and boarding helicopter
INT HELICOPTER
Troops stacking their backpacks inside helicopter
Soldiers seated in helicopter (they are heading to Sangin)
BV Pilot in cockpit as flying over open countryside
TS of soldiers affixing nets of supplies to hooks underneath helicopter
Soldier seated inside helicopter, looking down at supplies on hook below
TS Supplies being carried on hook underneath helicopter
Shadow of Chinook helicopter seen through porthole window
Soldier, manning rifle, sitting at open rear of helicopter, as in flight
EXT
Chinook helicopter landing
Soldier leaning on boxes of supplies
Reporter to camera
GROUND TO AIR Merlin helicopter, hovering just above the ground and turning
Close Shot of rotor blades turning
Troops taking supplies along to Merlin helicopter on tarmac
MID AIR:
AIR TO AIR shot Merlin in flight
Side view of helicopter machine gun seen as flying over countryside
Close Shot of face of soldier at open hatch
Camp Bastion:
DUSK
View from window of helicopter as it comes down to land at the end of the shift
NIGHT
Reporter walking with pilot, Mike Jordan
INT
Flight Lieutenant Mike Jordan (Merlin pilot) interview SOT
- saying they are at threat when they fly low and slow
Troops crouching on tarmac (seen beyond open hatch of helicopter)
Joint Force HQ:
INT
Reporter being shown the troops' HQ PAN to soldie...





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