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2004 - Color, Iraq War: Blue Babe Patrol, IED Searching by Task Force 82nd Engineer Battalion. Aug04

Reel Number: 250104-12

Color: Colour

Sound: SIL and SD

Year / Date: 2004

Country: Iraq,USA

Location: Baqouba

TC Begins: 15:05:08

TC Ends: 15:20:24

Duration: 00:15:16

NOTE: FOR ORDERING See: www.footagefarm.co.uk or contact us at: Info@Footagefarm.co.uk 2004 - Color, Iraq War: Blue Babe Patrol, IED Searching by Task Force 82nd Engineer Battalion. Aug04 Slates. Interview w/ Mark Patterson (New Orleans), C Co, 82nd Eng. Bn; Sgt Joseph Cano (San Antonio, TX)15:05:42 Int. Humvee w/ side view of driver. 15:05:51 Soldiers outside alongside Humvees in neighborhood from in front & behind; civilian vans alongside. 15:06:26 Soldiers around Humvee, squatting down behind, civilian van pulls up; MCU gunner at machine gun on top; military vehicle past. Police arrive in pickup truck w/ machine guns. 15:08:03 View of village in date palms beside curve in paved road, Humvee or Armored Assault Vehicle seen w/ soldiers firing machine guns at ??, raising dust. 15:09:56 Iraqi soldiers beside road watching. 15:10:03 MCU & CUs Soldiers preparing C-4 explosive charges. Sharpnel in side of Humvee. Black soldier w/ automatic rifle patrolling roadside. 15:11:01 Soldiers preparing tracked robot; set up remote control. CU C-4 charge. Adjusting robotic arm & moving along roadside; C-4 charge placed in robot claw & runs down road w/ wire. 15:13:23 Soldier being fitted into protective gear / bomb disposal protective suit. 15:13:50 Robot along road in MLS & CUs. Manin disposal uniform walking up road past camera. LS explosive charge explosion. 15:14:52 Soldier w/ firing device, MCU & CUs. Freeze frame 15:15:04:08 - 15:15:17:15 on source tape. 15:15:17 MCU SOF Patterson talks about what took place. Talks about trying the machine guns but couldn’t explode; describes black box w/ wires found. “...normally find them by hitting them, not the preferred method...” “Army needs to get more up-armored Humvees...” Describes typical day. 15:19:58 SOF MCU Sgt Joseph Cano talks about what they were doing. abrupt end - not useful. Military Propaganda; Improvised Explosive Devices;Third Brigade Combat Team; 3rd BCT, 1st Infantry Div.; NOTE: Blue Babe Highway runs from Forward Operating Base Gabe to its resupply point at Forward Operating Base Warhorse. Stars & Stripes article 10Aug04 on Mark Patterson describes his surviving explosion previous week as does his SOF. NOT: Sold at per reel rate. NOTE: FOR ORDERING See: www.footagefarm.co.uk or contact us at: Info@Footagefarm.co.uk

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