The plight of the first troops sent to Afghanistan's Helmand Province
in 2006, focusing on how, three years later, improvised explosive
devices had changed the nature of the war. Captain Alex Rawlins films
his men from 1st Battalion, the Grenadier Guards, and captures events
surrounding the loss of Private Jamie Janes, who stood on a landmine
during a patrol. The programme shows how the 23-year-old guardsman's
death became a turning point in the British public's awareness of the
human cost of IEDs.
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