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Dutch Marines perform a night-time beach landing on the Scottish coast during multinational exercise, Joint Warrior 2019

The UK-led multinational naval exercise Joint Warrior 2019 is underway until 11 April 2019. It involves around 10,000 troops from 13 nations and provides a complex environment in which UK, NATO and allied units can train together in tactics and skills for use in a combined joint task force. The exercise runs through a range of scenarios, including crisis and conflict situations, that could be realistically encountered in operations - disputed territory, terrorist activity, piracy and more.
NATO nations participating in Joint Warrior include Belgium, Canada, Denmark, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Spain, Turkey, the United Kingdom and the United States and NATO partner country Australia.
Footage includes various shots of Dutch Marines and British Navy operations in and around Loch Ewe in Scotland. Interviews with Commodore James Parkin, Commander Amphibious Task Group, Royal Navy and Brigadier Matt Jackson, Commander 3 Commando Brigade, Royal Marines.

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1. (00:00) DRONE SHOT OF BRITISH ROYAL MARINE LANDING CRAFT VEHICLE PERSONNEL (LCVP) MOVING ASHORE AND DROPPING RAMP
2. (00:15) DRONE SHOT OF BRITISH ROYAL MARINE LCVP HEADING OUT TO SEA
3. (00:29) DRONE SHOT OF BRITISH ROYAL MARINE LCVP MOVING ASHORE AND DROPPING RAMP
4. (00:41) DRONE SHOT OF BRITISH ROYAL MARINE LCVP’S ON BEACH WITH DUTCH MARINES WALKING TOWARDS THEM
5. (00:56) DRONE SHOT OF DUTCH MARINES WALKING ACROSS BEACH
6. (01:03) DRONE SHOT OF DUTCH MARINES IN THE SEA
7. (01:09) DRONE SHOT OF DUTCH BOARDING LCVP
8. (01:13) DRONE SHOT OF BRITISH ROYAL MARINE LCVP’S MOVING ASHORE
9. (01:22) DRONE SHOT OF DUTCH MARINES PATROLLING ALONG SHORES OF LOCH EWE
10. (01:37) DRONE SHOT OF DUTCH MARINES PATROLLING ALONG SHORES OF LOCH EWE
11. (01:44) VARIOUS SHOTS OF DUTCH MARINES PATROLLING ALONG ROADSIDE NEAR LOCH EWE
12. (02:18) DUTCH MARINES ON THE BEACH AT SUNSET
13. (02:25) VARIOUS SHOTS OF DUTCH MARINES GETTING EQUIPMENT READY ABOARD SHIP
14. (02:41) VARIOUS SHOTS OF DUTCH MARINES PREPARING EQUIPMENT IN THE HOLD OF THE BRITISH NAVY SHIP HMS LYME BAY
15. (02:58) DUTCH MARINES BOARDING BRITISH MARINE LCVP
16. (03:22) BRITISH ROYAL MARINE LCVP PULLING OUT OF THE HOLD OF THE BRITISH NAVY SHIP HMS LYME BAY AT NIGHT
17. (03:35) BRITISH ROYAL MARINE LCVP MOVING THROUGH THE SEA AT NIGHT
18. (03:40) DUTCH MARINES LANDING ASHORE AT NIGHT
19. (03:52) VARIOUS SHOTS OF DUTCH MARINES PATROLLING ALONG BEACH AT SUNRISE
20. (04:19) SLOW MOTION SHOTS OF DUTCH MARINES BOARDING BRITISH MARINE LCVP ON THE BEACH
21. (04:28) SHOTS OF DUTCH MARINES BOARDING LCVP ON THE BEACH
22. (04:39) WIDE SHOT OF LCVP HEADING OUT TO SEA TOWARDS BRITISH NAVY SHIP HMS LYME BAY
23. (04:46) WIDE SHOT OF BEACH AT LOCH EWE AT SUNRISE
24. (04:52) SLOW MOTION SHOT OF BRITISH ROYAL MARINE LCVP HEADING OUT TO SEA
25. (04:59) VARIOUS SHOTS OF BRITISH NAVY AND MARINE OFFICERS DISCUSSING BATTLE PLANS ABOARD HMS LYME BAY
26. (05:14) INTERVIEWS IN ENGLISH
COMMODORE JAMES PARKIN, COMMANDER AMPHIBIOUS TASK GROUP, BRITISH ROYAL NAVY

‘So we’re in about day three of Joint Warrior. It’s an enormous exercise that happens twice a year off the British Isles, normally off the west coast of Scotland but the activity can happen in the North Sea, all the way down to the south coast of England if necessary. There’s over 10,000 sailors, marines, soldiers and airmen taking part. There are 13 nations, 12 of whom are NATO. There are 54 ships and five submarines, I think - off the top of my head - but overall the aim is that we are a NATO task group operating within a NATO force to defend one country against the aggression of another.
Something like Joint Warrior of this scale, it gets us integrated, it takes us to the next level. It’s not just talking and being in the same sort of area, it’s meshing into each other’s task forces and learning how to fight and win alongside each other.
So we are the break glass in case of emergency force. We proudly wear our NRF badges during the calendar year of our duty and as every NATO summit re-iterates, it’s not just about the numbers of forces allocated, it’s about what you can do with them.’

(06:32) BRIGADIER MATT JACKSON, COMMANDER 3 COMMANDO BRIGADE, BRITISH ROYAL MARINES
‘We take training extremely seriously. Scotland is a great place for us to train. You’ve got the rugged nature of the terrain makes if difficult to operate within. Even now the weather is against us as you saw today and being able to operate in those climactic extremes is a really important skill for us.
The maritime task group and the amphibious task group provide massive flexibility for the joint task force commander. It keeps the enemy guessing, is the big thing that it does because when you’ve got a whole pile of ships with a whole pile of marines on board then they’re not quite sure when you’re going to land, and depending on where you land influences what that enemy or adversary force could do. So a maritime task group and an amphibious task group create uncertainty in an adversary’s mind and that’s one of the key capabilities that it has and it also then has a big punch if and when they decide to use it.’

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