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More weapons found

Feb- 4-2004 » Filed Under: 3/2 SBCT

Soldiers from the 3rd Brigade, 2nd Infantry Division (Stryker Brigade Combat Team), under the operational control of the 101st Airborne Division, uncovered two weapons caches during operations Friday in and around Mosul.

Company A, 2nd Battalion, 3rd Infantry Regiment uncovered a cache of weapons after an unknown number of insurgents engaged a patrol with small arms and rocket grenades in northern Mosul. The patrol returned fire, broke and moved to a location several blocks away. Members of the patrol then consolidated, reorganized and returned to the site to secure it.

The patrol secured a cache they found, including a grenade and six expended surface-to-air missile casings.

In Al Beer, Company A, 5th Battalion, 20th Infantry Regiment discovered a cache that included an AK-47, a machine gun with 1,500 rounds of ammunition, 21 magazines, two blocks of demolition cord and 40 electric blasting caps.


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