A Warrant Officer of the
UK Medical Group practises
emergency firefighting skills
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A Royal Navy medic x-rays
the broken hand of an Iraqi
worker at Basrah Airport
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Royal Welch Fusiliers find
time for rugby practice
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Iraqi officers of the Electricity
Protection Security Service
celebrate their graduation
from a training course
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An Iraqi National Guard
explosive ordnance disposal
team, trained by British experts,
prepare the demolition of
abandoned ordnance
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An RAF Regiment instructor
advises an Iraqi trainee on
markmanship. The Iraqi
is an officer of the border police,
who will take over from the
RAF Regiment responsibility
for security at Basrah airport
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A Danish soldier on guard atop
an armoured vehicle in Medina
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Coalition officers, including
a Lithuanian, dining with
a local agricultural committee
while discussing reconstruction
projects
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A Danish soldier on the
streets of Medina
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Voters were able to exercise
their democratic freedom in
in Az Zubayr on 9 July 2004
to elect a new town council
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An RAF Chinook arrives to
collect Royal Welch Fusiliers
who have been manning a
desert check-point
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Sunset over the River Tigris
at Al Amarah, where British
forces continue to support
the Iraqi authorities
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A British mortar fires an
illumination round during
night-time security precautions
against terrorist attack
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Troops from the 1st Battalion,
The Cheshire Regiment,
support an Iraqi police patrol
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A local man offers water
to a Cheshire resting during a patrol
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Members of the Royal Navy
Training Team, accompanied by
the Chief of Staff of MND(SE)
(seen centre) board an RAF Chinook
on their return from Iran
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Defence Secretary Geoff Hoon
with Iraqi officials, including the
commander of the 70th Brigade
of the Iraqi Civil Defence Corps,
during a tour of the latter's base
in Basrah. MND(SE) personnel
have trained the Brigade, and
UK forces have also trained an
Explosive Ordnance Disposal
unit to serve alongside it
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The First Sea Lord, Admiral
Sir Alan West, talks with Iraqi
Coastal Defence Force officers
aboard one of the ICDF patrol
vessels during the handover of
operations at Umm Qasr. The
ICDF personnel have been trained
by Coalition instructors, with the
officers attending the Royal Naval
College at Dartmouth
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