(25 Mar 2002)
1. Wide shot bombs in loading carriage at Bagram airbase with US troops boarding Hercules aircraft in background
2. Long shot of troops boarding plane through tail
3. Close up graffiti on bomb reads "To Osama from all the British Airborne"
4. Mid shot bombs waiting to be loaded
5. Graffiti on bomb
6. Mid shot journalists at news briefing
7. SOUNDBITE: (English) Sergeant Steve Melbourne, British Royal Marines Commandos
"Just to let you know that the Royal Marine Commandos continue to prepare the way for 45 Commandos, due in later on this week. The logistics regiment is in their now preparing tentage just so we can get the advance party in and obviously when the barracks are up and running well move the main body into there. (Q: How many have arrived so far?) At the present time there are just under 100. We've got the advance party from 45 Commando due in later this week and the main body from there are due in the following week."
8. Wide shot US soldier guarding A-10 "Thunderbolt" attack aircraft
9. Close up soldiers face
10. Wide shot aircrew around A-10 aircraft
11. Close up "Flying Tigers" logo on aircraft fuselage
12. SOUNDBITE: (English) Lt-Colonel Pete Gipper, 322 Air Expeditionary Group: "I think we are contributing by having the ability to strike targets on relatively short notice that either come down from the air commanders or the ground commanders and to be able to distinguish them, the friendly and the enemy and strike them within a matter of a few minutes."
13. Wide shot Gippers next to A-10 aircraft
STORYLINE:
A spokesman for the British military said on Monday that an advance party of just under 100 Royal Marines have arrived at Bagram airfield in Afghanistan.
Their task is to prepare for the arrival of the remaining bulk of the 1,700-member British force which is expected to be deployed within the next few weeks.
The spokesman, Sergeant Steve Melbourne said the logistics regiment is now preparing tents for the main advance party to move into when they arrive later this week.
The British force is based around 45 ( Pronounced four-five, not forty five) Commando, a specialist mountain warfare unit based in Scotland.
It will consist of around 650 front line assault troops, plus around 1000 support troops made up of engineers, artillery, signallers and logistics experts.
They will be deployed by British Chinook helicopters and will be supported by U.S. helicopter gunships and fixed wing ground attack planes.
Over the weekend, the US military has brought into Bagram a small number of A-10 "Thunderbolt" attack jets to bolster America's capability to provide close air support for combat operations against al-Qaida and the Taliban.
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