(12 Mar 2002)
AGENCY POOL
1. Various of Chinooks landing
2. Various of troops walking from runway
3. Wide of troops walking past camera
4. Troops walking past camera, one saying "Be home soon, baby"
5. Various of troops walking off runway
6. Set-up for Major Bryan Hilferty
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Major Bryan Hilferty, spokesman for the 10th Mountain Division:
"The coalition continues to reposition forces as we have since D-day, there are still almost two-thousand soldiers on the ground in the objective area, aggressively searching for the terrorists. We continue to use fires, primarily from aircraft to destroy known terrorist positions. Our Afghani allies continue to aggressively attack from the North and the West, and yesterday seized key terrain in objective area."
8. Wide of Major with press
9. Various soldiers at camp relaxing
10. SOUNDBITE (English) John Smerbeck, 1st class Private, Bravo Company, 101 Airborne:
"I’m not winded, (I’m) very, very glad to be back, I’ll be more happy when I get home."
11. Wide troops relaxing
12. SOUNDBITE (English) Michael Rojis, Specialist 101 Airborne :
"Proud to be over here serving, its tough being away from home and stuff, but (I) do it for all you guys and (pulls out family photograph from around neck) I do it for these."
13. Family photograph
14. Solitary soldier sitting
15. Chinook flying past with U-S flag in foreground
STORYLINE
US soldiers returning from the front-line at Gardez in eastern Afghanistan returned to Bagram airbase on Monday.
The soldiers returned on Chinooks, after US-trained Afghani troops replaced them, and many expressed their relief at their safe return.
John Smerbank, expressing relief at being back, said he’d be happier when he got home while Michael Rojis of the 101 Airborne said he was fighting for his family and showed a photograph of them around his neck.
Major Bryan Hilferty, spokesperson for the 10th Mountain Division, stressed that operations were still continuing to destroy ‘terrorist’ positions.
He also said coalition forces numbering two-thousand, including local Afghani allies, were still in the area and were being backed up by aircraft fire.
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