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Commando forces
board
RAF Chinook helicopters at Bagram
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Other troops set out
to in convoy
to establish a Forward Operating
Base for Op Snipe
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A convoy passes Royal
Marines
digging defensive positions
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An armed Land Rover
leads
the convoy
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Digging in at the Forward
Operating Base
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105mm Light Guns deployed,
with a
Milan missile team on guard
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Royal Marines moving at night in
the mountains
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Royal Marines and local Afghan troops
watch over the arrival of further
forces in an RAF Chinook
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A patrol high in the mountains,
showing the effectiveness
of camouflage
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A Chinook refuels at the Forward
Operating Base as another
group of Royal Marines boards
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An RAF gunner waves back to friendly
Afghan villagers as the Chinook
passes overhead
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More intensive helicopter
movements, ferrying men and equipment
into the area of operations
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On patrol
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The effort of operating at very
high altitude is evident
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A short rest
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A Royal Engineer carefully inspects
one of the hundreds of artillery rounds
found in the cave complex
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A Sapper keeps guard at a cave
entrance, surrounded by boxes
of munitions
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Royal Engineers prepare a demolition
charge to destroy the cave complex
and the arms dump within
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The huge explosion as the
arms dump is destroyed by
demolition charges
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The size of the explosion is clear,
as Jacana personnel observe from
half a mile away
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A pair of 107mm rockets, with
improvised firing circuits, which were
found aimed at the Jacana forward
operating base but made safe before
they could be fired
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As well as denying the area to Al Qaida
and the Taliban, Snipe delivered
humanitarian aid to remote villages
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Afghans and Royal Marines work
together to distribute sacks
of aid flown in by RAF Chinook
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A Royal Marine entertains
some of the local
village children
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Royal Marines, safely returned to
Bagram airfield
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