A Sapper from 51 Squadron Royal
Engineers clearing ordnance from the
new base for ISAF's Engineer Group
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Royal Engineers make an old barracks
habitable in preparation for the arrival
of more ISAF personnel
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A member of 51 Squadron Royal Engineers
conducting survey work at the new Engineer
Group headquarters in Kabul
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Can you spot the anti-personnel mine?
A mine lying amidst apparently casually
discarded debris
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An Italian Explosive Ordnance
Disposal Team at work: ordnance
is checked for biological or chemical
traces before being safely destroyed
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resolution version) |
An Italian Explosive Ordnance
Disposal Team at work: ordnance
cleared from the building
used for the new ISAF headquarters
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An Italian Explosive Ordnance
Disposal Team at work: a Chemical
Weapons Monitor is used for a safety check
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resolution version) |
An Afghan mine clearance team
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An Italian Explosive Ordnance
Disposal Team at work: checks for biological
or chemical traces
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A batch of anti-tank weapons found in
buildings being renovated for habitation
are made ready for safe destruction,
with plastic explosive placed on them
in a demolition pit
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The munitions are destroyed in a
spectacular but safe manner
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A sapper from 33 EOD Regiment
similarly prepares 120mm mortar
bombs for disposal
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The final preparations before detonation
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The bombs are destroyed
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A British officer of 23 Pioneer Regiment,
with a few of the many Locally Employed
Civilians who are engaged on reconstruction
work for ISAF in and around Kabul
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A sapper from 2 Commando Troop
of 33 EOD Regiment attaches a hook
and line to a landmine
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resolution version) |
Then, from a safe distance, the mine
is pulled from its location to see if it
has been booby-trapped, before work starts
to make it safe
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As well as extensive work at Kabul
International Airport, 34 Airfield Support
Squadron have been needed at Bagram
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Before heavy transport aircraft can
use the runway, damaged concrete
has to be replaced
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A large damaged slab is prised
from the surface by a team
of Royal Engineer specialists
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34 Airfield Support Squadron's home
base is at Waterbeach, Cambridgeshire
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The old concrete cleared away,
work starts on replacing it
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The final touches are applied,
before moving on to the next task
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Explosive Ordnance Disposal experts
from 33 EOD Regiment practise the safe
handling of suspected chemical weapons
in a training exercise in Kabul
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Two Royal Engineer specialists
carefully plan an operation to conduct
a precautionary search of a
building for possible boobytraps
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resolution version) |
An Italian Army mechanical
digger begins digging emergency
drainage diches after a sudden
storm flooded an ISAF facility
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resolution version) |
Royal Engineers of 9 Parachute
Squadron, hard at work clearing up
after the flooding
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The bodies of the two German Explosive
Ordnance Disposal engineers tragically
killed with three Danish colleagues were
repatriated on 9 March
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ISAF personnel pay their respects as
the bodies are loaded aboard a Luftwaffe
transport aircraft for the flight home
to Germany
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