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MND-B Soldiers, ISF, local residents discover multiple caches

Feb-28-2008 » Filed Under: 2/25 SBCT

Multi-National Division – Baghdad PAO

BAGHDAD – Multi-National Division – Baghdad Soldiers, Iraqi Security forces and local Iraqis discovered multiple weapon and ammunition caches Feb. 27 northwest of Baghdad.

Soldiers from 2nd Squadron, 14th Cavalry Regiment, 2nd Stryker Brigade Combat Team, 25th Infantry Division, discovered a 68mm mortar round, a French-made rocket and a 68mm mortar tube during a combat patrol at approximately 10:30 a.m.

A joint combat patrol with Iraqi Army Soldiers from 2nd Battalion, 3rd Brigade, 9th Iraqi Army Division, and Soldiers from 2nd SBCT, discovered three 82mm mortar rounds, three 155mm artillery rounds, and four mortar tubes at noon.

At the same time, a local resident turned in a rocket-propelled grenade, a grenade, and two improvised-explosive devices to at a joint security station.

During a combat operation, Soldiers from 1st Battalion, 27th Infantry Regiment, 2nd SBCT, discovered a munitions cache of 15 130mm rockets, four 107mm rockets, two 57mm rockets, a 122mm artillery projectile, eight Italian landmines and 100 pounds of homemade explosive-making material.

At the same location, Soldiers also found 82 empty 107mm rocket motors, 20 empty 107mm rocket warheads, 13 empty 152mm projectiles, 16 empty 130mm rocket motors, two rocket launchers, an RPG, an RPK rifle, an AK-47 and 100 small-arms rounds.

An Iraqi sheik from the area turned in a weapons cache to Soldiers at a JSS of five 60mm mortars, two 82mm mortars, an 82mm recoilless rifle, two RPGs, two RPG launchers, a one 2.75” Brazilian rocket.


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