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The top uniformed officers of the Army and the Marines told a Senate panel that letting gays serve openly in the U.S. military at a time of war would be divisive and difficult, sharply challenging a new Pentagon study that calculates the risk as low.
HEADLINE: U.S. Army, Marine chiefs cast doubt on gay service
CAPTION: The top uniformed officers of the Army and the Marines told a Senate panel that letting gays serve openly in the U.S. military at a time of war would be divisive and...
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US opens new military base
1. Entrance to new base
2. Signs at entrance
3. Various of crane helping in construction
4. Tank and military bulldozer
5. Long shot of tank
6. Humvee with gunner on top
7. Various of lookout post
8. Various of guards using...
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Life getting back to normal after first offensive
1. US marines on patrol
2. Various of US marines and Afghan police
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Andrew Terreu, Captain, Lima Company 3rd battalion 4th US Marines
"I mean, I think they ran away from us. They definitely didn't want to fight us....
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Coalition handover of Karbala troops to Bulgaria
1. Wide of Golden Shrine
2. Mid shot Golden Shrine
3. Mid shot US soldiers
4. Exterior of Karbala town hall
5. Tilt up from shadow to soldiers
6. Wide of exterior town hall, soldiers walking in
7. Interior - before ceremony - pan
8. Pan...
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WRAP Marines pull back as agreement is reached
Fallujah
1. Various of soldiers dismantling barbed wire
2. Various of US vehicles leaving the highway
3. Soldiers standing at the checkpoint
4. Residents waiting behind barbed wire
5. Guard dog and soldier standing in front of barbed...
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US Bombing raids
** Note - timecode NOT continuous **
Story 1 col sound
The Battle of Khe Sanh - US Bombing raids 1968
02:45:33 Air force support past troops behind bunkers. Napalm
02:46:51 B-52 bombers dropping bombs.
02:46:53 Supply drops by tactical...
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UN Forces In Defensive Action, First UN Ground Offensive
UN Forces In Defensive Action
With the Communists holding key positions high in the hills the UN forces, still made up of Americans, are under constant fire from artillery. Fighting both the enemy and the mountainous terrrain of Korea,...
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GWT: VOICED Fighting and searching by both U.S. MArines and British Royal Marines
00:00 Troops in position, rocket launcher being loaded, gunfire
00:09 Long shot of building being targeted
00:16 Close-up of marine speaking
00:20 Wide of marine talking to other troops
00:22 Marine running and landing infront of...
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Two marines killed in helicopter crash, five injured
Bagram, Afghanistan
1. Exterior Bagram airport
2. Chopper landing on tarmac
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Captain Tom Bryant, U-S army
"The Marines on board - a total of seven - were evacuated here to Bagram airfield. Two of the Marines on...
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US Navy Secretary comments on Vieques
Washington, DC - 15 June 2001
1. US Navy Secretary Gordon England walks up to podium, pull out to wide shot
2. SOUNDBITE: (English) Gordon England, US Navy Secretary
"I would emphasize that I brought this proposal forward, within the DOD...
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Latest reax from US and French military
1. Wide shot of military plane taxiing on tarmac
2. Military plane taxiing on tarmac
3. Military plane taxiing on tarmac
4. Humvee passing by
5. Set up shot of French Brigadier General Henry Clement Bollee
6. SOUNDBITE (French) Henry...
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Jordan - Joint war games
US and Jordanian troops wrapped up three weeks of joint war games in the southern Jordanian desert on Wednesday (11/06). Exercise "Infinite Moonlight 97" involved 1,500 US marines and sailors of the US Fifth Fleet and 500 Jordanian...
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Sierra Leone - US Marines Airlift Liberian Warlord
Street battles broke out in Liberia on Sunday (5/5), two days
after US Marines airlifted Liberian warlord Roosevelt Johnson to
Ghana for peace talks.
The upcoming Ghana talks, aimed at ending the six-year-old war,
are being seen as the...
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Zaire/Congo - Richardson meets Mobutu
US envoy Bill Richardson met Zaire's President Mobutu Sese Seko in Kinshasa on Tuesday (29/4) and said the ailing dictator was willing to meet with rebel leader Laurent Kabila.
Richardson then left Kinshasa for the rebel-held city of...
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Adriatic - Rescued Pilot O'Grady
Rescued U.S. pilot, Scott O'Grady, was recovering on Thursday
(8/6) aboard the USS Kearsarge amphibious assault ship in the
Adriatic Sea. O'Grady was originally expected to return to the
U.S. air base in Aviano, Italy, on Thursday,...
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Italy - Mudslide survivor/Clean up operation
Roberto Robustelli, who survived the mudslide, is still recovering in hospital. He was squashed into a cellar and breath from a pocket of air no greater than 10 centimetres thick after disaster struck. Over 80 US marines and naval...
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WRAP Edited highlights of daily coalition briefing
1. Kenton Keith, U.S. -led Coalition spokesman, entering meeting
2. Cutaway journalists
3. SOUNDBITE: (English) Kenton Keith, Coalition spokesman:
"I can confirm that there is military activity around Kandahar, involving ground forces...
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US troops talk about fighting
1. Pan of US marine base
2. Various of US marines
3. SOUNDBITE: (English) Lieutenant Colonel John Lewis Mayer, Commanding Officer of Ground Combat Operations:
"There's been a big scrap, one of the toughest I've ever been in. On the...
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Facility on carrier with more than 5000 sailors
USS Lincoln, Northern Arabian Sea
1. Wide of USS Abraham Lincoln
2. Various activities on flight deck
3. Plane taking off
4. Various AWACS taking off
5. Various Hansford T. Johnson, Acting US Secretary of Navy, exiting plane,...
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Clinton and Gates in Congressional hearings; Vox; Analyst
Washington, DC - 2 December, 2009
1. Various shots of Congressional hearing attended by US Defence Secretary Robert Gates, US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and Admiral Mike Mullen
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Robert Gates, US...
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Battle of Hue
Story 9, Battle of Hue - Tet, 111 LC 53046, 1968, colour, mute
01:51:08 b/w S Vietnamese film on Tet- credits
01:51:50- SViet army barracks
01:52:13- North Vietnamese citadel in Hue- good shots of VC troops
01:53:16- ...
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The Senate on Friday blocked a Democratic proposal that would have paid for the Iraq war but required that troops start coming home. The 53-45 vote was seven votes short of the 60 needed to advance.
HEADLINE: Senate blocks Iraq war money
CAPTION: The Senate on Friday blocked a Democratic proposal that would have paid for the Iraq war but required that troops start coming home. The 53-45 vote was seven votes short of the 60 needed to...
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Excerpts of presser from US military spokesman
1. U.S. Brigadier General Mark Kimmitt, Coalition Military Spokesman and Dan Senor, Coalition Spokesman walking into news briefing
2. Wide of news briefing
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Brigadier General Mark Kimmitt, Coalition Military...
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Army general comment on Iraq war plan before Senate committee
1. Wide of Senate Armed Services hearing room
2. Lieutenant General David Petraeus sitting down
3. Wide of Senate Armed Services Committee
4. SOUNDBITE: (English) Lieutenant General David Petraeus, US Commander in Iraq Nominee:
"None of...