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Stryker soldiers find more weapons caches

Oct-26-2005 » Filed Under: 172nd SBCT

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By AMANDA BOHMAN, News-Miner

Fort Wainwright soldiers in Iraq spent the weekend arresting at least 35 suspected terrorists and uncovering more weapons storehouses, according to U.S. Army news releases.

Activities began Friday and involve three units of the 172nd Stryker Brigade Combat Team posted in western and northern Iraq. No soldiers were reported injured or killed.

Units named were the 1st Battalion, 17th Infantry Regiment; 4th Battalion, 11th Field Artillery Regiment; and the 4th Squadron, 14th Cavalry Regiment. The soldiers are among the 3,800 Fort Wainwright service members who arrived in Iraq in mid-September.

"On a scale of busy from one to 10, I'd say at any given time they are at a seven to 10, this probably being pretty close to a 10," said Maj. Kirk Gohlke of U.S. Army Alaska public affairs describing the Stryker Brigade's weekend activities.

The 1-17 led events when members detained nine suspected terrorists and seized artillery rounds, rocket-propelled grenade rounds, magazines and almost 1,000 assorted ammunition rounds in the northern Iraqi town of Mosul, said a statement from the military.

The operations began Friday and continued through Monday.

In nearby Qayyarah on Saturday, soldiers with the 4-11 seized a cache of mortar rounds while assisting Iraqi army soldiers, according to the Army. [...]


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