Handing over Helmand: A Tale of two tours

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  • Опубликовано: 5 сен 2024
  • A short documentary that I shot and edited for BBC World. It compares and contrasts the tours of Delta Company, 40 Commando in Dec 2007 and November 2012.
    If you want to know how I make films like this then check out my video making tutorials - / imagejunkies and for my website aimed at video shooters and editors check out bit.ly/imagejun...

Комментарии • 88

  • @ahmadghafoorwafa3051
    @ahmadghafoorwafa3051 5 лет назад +50

    I had the privilege to serve as an interpreter with Lima Company, 42 Commando Royal Marines in Helmand, Afghanistan between 2009 and 2010. I still miss those brave marines and I thank them for their tireless efforts to bring peace to my country

    • @johnmacpherson9629
      @johnmacpherson9629 5 лет назад +14

      You Should get UK passport for your Service to UK Forces. M8.(And your Family.)
      Peace.

    • @walterperry4565
      @walterperry4565 4 года назад +2

      Wonderful sir

    • @ChrisKlein0
      @ChrisKlein0 4 года назад +1

      You and your terp brothers are incredibly brave and we would have struggled without you. The lease we could offer is to provide you safety and security in the UK. Take care 👍🏻

    • @stevewales-uk
      @stevewales-uk 3 года назад

      God bless you mate

    • @einzelganger2939
      @einzelganger2939 2 года назад +1

      Seen your comments before my friend. I hope you’re doing ok I really do! 🙏

  • @simonyip5978
    @simonyip5978 6 лет назад +19

    The first foot patrol from their new base was on Christmas day, I bet they will remember that day for the rest of their lives, and no matter where they are or how old they are, at every Christmas for the rest of their lives, they'll think about the Christmas that they spent in Helmand Province.

  • @SoloVagant
    @SoloVagant 8 лет назад +16

    Excellent, short but informative, showing a new angle to the conflict. Thank you.

    • @ChristianParkinson
      @ChristianParkinson  8 лет назад +3

      +Dave Brown many thanks Dave, appreciate that.

    • @hornetobiker
      @hornetobiker 5 лет назад +1

      How do you live with all that shit stuck to your arse?

    • @clazzo6231
      @clazzo6231 3 года назад

      @@hornetobiker KEKW

    • @ANZACS100
      @ANZACS100 Год назад

      @@ChristianParkinson FUCK AMERICA , FUCK NATO !

  • @MrRoyal1983
    @MrRoyal1983 11 лет назад +4

    Excellent video. The first time I've seen it. Well done. A fitting tribute to our efforts. Many thanks

  • @AlgorhythmKid
    @AlgorhythmKid 6 лет назад +2

    I met Pete Thomas out in Thailand maybe 8 or 9 years ago. Must be before this was filmed. What a small world. I hope he is well.

  • @charlesdevaney7144
    @charlesdevaney7144 4 года назад +7

    Marines do it like no other.former Royal.

  • @andrewjames5738
    @andrewjames5738 3 года назад

    nice work Christian, an excellent video. my thanks

  • @tobyjohnson1239
    @tobyjohnson1239 4 года назад

    i was 1 month and 1 day old on christmas 2007

  • @jonnybravo3055
    @jonnybravo3055 7 лет назад +6

    I rather strip the AK down rather than the sa80 blindfolded?

  • @DoItLikeBerny
    @DoItLikeBerny 9 лет назад +37

    I thought a man was narrating this at first..

    • @Redrush11
      @Redrush11 6 лет назад +1

      ;kjb yh so was i then i see her standing their in bright blue and im like fucking hell i would be shitting it in a place like that

    • @jayhayes1236
      @jayhayes1236 5 лет назад +3

      She is a Man lol

    • @hadesspeaks9783
      @hadesspeaks9783 4 года назад +1

      Pretty sure it is

    • @campbellfraser7599
      @campbellfraser7599 3 года назад

      @@hadesspeaks9783 war correspondence will do that to people 😂

  • @Lesh1170
    @Lesh1170 6 лет назад +1

    We tell people in training that murder is forbidden. he's right evolution takes time.

  • @romeo9017
    @romeo9017 4 года назад +1

    Respect..l

  • @dougie22grenadier
    @dougie22grenadier 8 лет назад +2

    I find this very hard to watch because nothing in the Clifton area was achieved! The flet never changed

    • @StabbyJoe135
      @StabbyJoe135 4 года назад

      Aptly named then. The real Clifton is a shithole

    • @jesperchr
      @jesperchr 3 года назад

      I were there when the bigger FOB just South was taken and being build.
      It was a hard area. When we, the danes took and build the base Armadillo on the opposite side of Helmand, we could see every contact you guys were in.

  • @granthyslop4404
    @granthyslop4404 3 года назад +2

    Can't help but think most of them are taliban and are just getting equipped and trained

  • @snowflakemelter1172
    @snowflakemelter1172 6 лет назад +11

    Waste of time trying to help any Islamic country, the Afghan in the film said they would go back to the Taliban, they have no concept of responsibility.

    • @onetwo6064
      @onetwo6064 4 года назад

      Islam and the Sharia only enable instability and intolerant populations.

  • @UFCSTARS
    @UFCSTARS 4 года назад +11

    So what we've learned here is that the Royal Marines can't sing. lol

  • @leonie87spud
    @leonie87spud 9 лет назад +1

    lol is that a ufo at 5:15 in the right hand upper corner ?

  • @AFdecksitter
    @AFdecksitter 5 лет назад +1

    👍👍👍🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧

  • @jmassful
    @jmassful 5 лет назад

    What’s the name of this documentary

    • @ChristianParkinson
      @ChristianParkinson  5 лет назад +1

      erm it's the title of the film... :-)

    • @jmassful
      @jmassful 5 лет назад

      Lol thank you - are there more parts to this or is it just 15 minutes

  • @Tariq8ification
    @Tariq8ification 3 года назад +1

    Welp

  • @samuel10125
    @samuel10125 7 лет назад

    is that a Warrior 12:45 If so I wasn't aware we put fucking cannons on them

    • @ChristianParkinson
      @ChristianParkinson  7 лет назад

      That was a Danish vehicle - I'm not sure what it was tho mate.

    • @simonyip5978
      @simonyip5978 6 лет назад

      I think it's a Swedish design used by Denmark and Norway as well, the gun is 40mm I think. I think it's called the CV-90 (?).

  • @AFghanWarZZZ
    @AFghanWarZZZ Год назад

    Why would the British be deployed to Afghanistan with their bad history. a recipe for disaster!!

  • @johnnydiamondsmusic1673
    @johnnydiamondsmusic1673 4 года назад +1

    Total waste of good men. Killed by the people they came to help. What a ridiculous mission from start to finish.

  • @I_kill_hooez
    @I_kill_hooez 5 лет назад

    Just posted a US Marine Raid on a taliban strong hold in Bahramcha Afghanistan! Check out the vid on my channel

  • @ChrisKlein0
    @ChrisKlein0 4 года назад +4

    I bet the marines were going through some of those medics 😂

  • @hornetobiker
    @hornetobiker 5 лет назад +1

    Fluff.

  • @PhilDM
    @PhilDM 7 лет назад

    If only the U.S. Marines were sent.

    • @gavstuart507
      @gavstuart507 6 лет назад +4

      wouldnt of done any better

    • @crusaderjezuk9817
      @crusaderjezuk9817 6 лет назад +11

      They'd have just shot each other

    • @mattc3991
      @mattc3991 5 лет назад +2

      @obrbob194 did you ever serve in either?

    • @emantide6306
      @emantide6306 5 лет назад +4

      Would have multiple blue on blue ...trust me ,been there .

    • @jbcf4490
      @jbcf4490 5 лет назад +3

      The whole place would be blown to shit from the amount of air support

  • @thomasucc
    @thomasucc 7 лет назад +2

    A ship of fools

  • @staycool8516
    @staycool8516 7 лет назад

    Yankee should mind there own bissness and same go's for the British army stay in ur own country THE IRA soon showed The Brits the way they do bissness. Yee ha

    • @snowflakemelter1172
      @snowflakemelter1172 6 лет назад +12

      stay cool the IRA has surrendered. You are a dunce.

    • @hiddenassassin3233
      @hiddenassassin3233 5 лет назад +4

      The IRA did fuck all lmfao.

    • @s.waring8364
      @s.waring8364 3 года назад +1

      Is that why the IRA lost

    • @ChrisKlein0
      @ChrisKlein0 3 года назад

      The way to do business is blowing up civilians is it? Or torturing them? Seem pretty similar to the taliban, but at least the taliban have an excuse of living in a medieval era country with zero education. What’s the IRA excuse?
      Also, the IRA surrendered. They were losing and they knew it. They had high level infiltrators that we put there that were bringing them down.

    • @richteehee
      @richteehee 2 года назад

      Still 28 not 32.....