2007 - Color, Military Training: Operation Sand Castle, 770th Engineer Company

NOTE: FOR ORDERING See: www.footagefarm.co.uk or contact us at: Info@Footagefarm.co.uk 2007 - Color, Military Training: Operation Sand Castle, 770th Engineer Company 350th MPAD 770th Eng Co sets up Cedar Rapids 3012 Rock Crusher. 17:11:10 MCU large wheeled bucket loader w/ operator wearing breathing mask moving gravel & rock. MCUs of crusher working, piles of gravel produced w/ much dust. MLS. Loading rock into dump trucks. Various operators on crusher machine. 17:12:44 Wheeled front loader moving gravel; tracked shovel moving; bulldozer working. LS across rock crusher. CU bin; crushed rock off conveyors & dust. Dumping front bucket into crusher. Various shots of working crusher conveyors, shakers, belts, dump trucks, operator on top of crusher w/ panel of buttons. Rock being dumped. 17:14:50 Title: 458th Engineer Battalion, Brookville, Pennsylvania. Operation Sand Castle. Tasked w/ building several concrete & steel structures. 17:14:55 Sgt Jason Epperson: “The only real safety factor is the heat...building PEVs...CMU / concrete masonery units...” 17:15:36 Lt. Eric Bowser “Everyone has gloves on....for real-world deployment.” 17:16:10 Large wheeled hinged vehicle w/ bucket backing of trailer. Other equipment moving things w/ bucket loader; crane; digging w/ bucket loader. Taped markings for foundation outlines; surveying instrument. 17:17:14 Soldiers measuring long plank. Soldiers cutting reinforcing rods w/ metal saw, CUs, LS. 17:17:49 Soldiers digging w/ shovels for foundation, other partially constructed buildings in background. CU spray painting outline. MS unloading plywood from army truck; cutting w/ skill-saws. 17:19:07 MS of concrete block house w/ window unframed; LS of several buildings. 17: 19:16 Title: 854th engineer Battalion, Bullville, New York building structures for training purposes. 17:19:26 MS & CU. Soldier w/ skill-saw; CU soldiers digging w/ shovel. LS partially completed cement brick houses. Equipment digging beside cement blocks on pallets. Carpenters. CU men stringing twine lines. HA of partially constructed training buildings scattered on desert. MLS workers; foundation forms put in place, cutting, leveling, CU bags of Portland Cement; nailing forms. 17:22:01 Aerial over many partially constructed buildings in desert. 17:22:35 SPC Christelna Nigrelli, A Co, 854 EN BN Now Potts (New Paltz ?), NY. “I actually have never worked on the reconstruction of Iraq...we did a lot of repairs...and repair the palaces...to improve conditions...” 17:23:38 SSG Nichole Bower, Beacon, NY. “I think it is going to greatly benefit the soldiers that use this city...this setting is so close to being overseas in the box...its kind of creepy...” Government Political Propaganda; Military Construction Activities; Training; NOTE: Sold at per reel rate. NOTE: FOR ORDERING See: www.footagefarm.co.uk or contact us at: Info@Footagefarm.co.uk NOTE: Operation Sand Castle is 10 year engineering project as part of Medina Jabal, a simulated Middle East city of several hundred buildings.