(26 Mar 2004)
1. Various of soldier outside Royal Caribbean Hotel, base for the India Company Group, 2nd Batallion, Royal Canadian Regiment
2. Exterior of Royal Caribbean Hotel
3. Canadian flag
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Captain David Hill, Operations Officer for India Company Group, Royal Canadian Regiment:
"We're attempting to maintain an environment of stability and security and try and assist with the Haitian authorities to gain some form of security in the area."
5. Various of Canadian army truck patrolling streets
6. Various of Canadian soldier sitting in truck which is on patrol
7. Tracking shot from moving truck
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Captain David Hill, Operations Officer for Indian Company Group, Royal Canadian Regiment:
"This morning we were practicing the QRF, which is the quick reaction force, whose job is to always be on 10 minutes notice to move in case there is an emergency or something that comes up that requires an immediate action."
9. Various of soldiers running down steps
10. UPSOUND (English) Captain David Hill, Operations Officer for Indian Company Group, Royal Canadian Regiment:
I want you to go across the street. I want you to site an HLZ. We're anticipating that a helicopter's going to be landing in here in approximately the next ten minutes."
11. Close up of map UPSOUND (English) Soldier:
"On this site?"
12. Various of soldiers
13. UPSOUND (English) Soldier:
"At 3 1 0 5, Roger, DLZ is not secured. Will not put panel markers down, we will use smoke, the panel markers cannot be tied down so we will use smoke, the DLZ is secure."
14. Soldier guards the edge of soccer field were helicopter will land
15. Onlookers
16. Various of green smoke rising from cannister
17. Various of Canadian helicopter approaching and landing
18. Soldiers getting out of helicopter
19. SOUNDBITE (English) Captain David Hill, Operations Officer for Indian Company Group, Royal Canadian Regiment:
"The exercise went very well. They were supposed to be ready in about 10 minutes. They were ready in six minutes 30 seconds."
20. Various of armoured vehicles
21. Trucks arriving outside Royal Caribbean Hotel
STORYLINE:
Canadian peacekeepers took part in a training exercise in the Haitian capital of Port-au-Prince on Thursday - testing their ability to respond quickly in emergency situations.
The Canadians are in the Caribbean nation to help Haitian authorities maintain security in the sprawling city that rebels claimed during a rebellion to oust President Jean-Bertrand Aristide.
They are part of an international force of some 3,300 troops which have also been sent by the United States, France and Chile.
The India Company Group - 2nd Batallion, Royal Canadian Regiment - has about 200 soldiers and they are staying at the Royal Caribbean Hotel, a run-down hotel just outside the capital, in Carrefour.
The last time they were in the Caribbean was in 1914 in Bermuda.
Captain David Hill, Operations Officer for Indian Company Group said: "We're attempting to maintain an environment of stability and security and try and assist with the Haitian authorities to gain some form of security in the area."
Former president Jean-Bertrand Aristide left on February 29, claiming he was forced from power by the United States as rebels threatened to attack Port-au-Prince.
More than 300 people died in the rebellion, but the toll could be much higher in the aftermath for northerners who now have gone for weeks without clean drinking water, electricity, food and basic health care for treatable diseases.
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