Operation Provide Comfort (relief efforts for Kurdish refugees)
Operation Provide Comfort (relief efforts for Kurdish refugees)
Covers humanitarian relief given to Kurdish refugees by U.S. Joint Services Task Force and calition forces. Shows Kurdish camps and towns in the mountains along the Iraqi-Turkish border with Joint Task Forces organizing camps, distributing food, giving medical care, and patrolling the area to protect Kurds from Iraqi soldiers. Coverage of U.S. and coalition forces assistance to Kurdish refugees who fled to the mountains along the Iraqi-Turkish border. Views of ammunition storage area and POL (petroleum-oil-lubricants) storage in Silopi, Turkey. USAF UH-60s land and take off at Incirlik air base and POL drums are on/offloaded from U.S. CH-47 helos. German CH-53 lands in a field and takes on board a U.S. Special Forces medical team. Shots of team leaving helo and hiking a mountain trail to a Kurdish camp and inoculating children. Kurdish refugees with possessions and some mules walking barren mountain trails on Iraqi-Turkish border. Includes U.S. Special Forces observers counting refugees and one of them explains their circumstances.