Stryker Brigade News

IA, MND-B Soldiers help rid Baghdad of deadly munitions

Sep-16-2008 » Filed Under: 2/25 SBCT

Multi-National Division – Baghdad PAO

BAGHDAD – Iraqi Army soldiers and Multi-National Division – Baghdad Soldiers continued to take weapons off the streets of Baghdad Sept. 15-16.

Soldiers serving with Company B, 1st Battalion 27th Infantry Regiment, 2nd Stryker Brigade Combat Team, 25th Infantry Division, MND-B, found a 64 mm rocket propelled grenade-18 launcher north of Baghdad at approximately 6:15 a.m Sept. 15.

While on patrol in the Kadamiyah district of Baghdad, soldiers serving with 4th Battalion, 22nd Brigade, 6th Iraqi Army Division found two hand grenades, a hand grenade and an Iranian 81 mm high explosive mortar round at approximately 11:15 a.m.

Later that evening at approximately 9 p.m., a tip led Soldiers serving with Company D, 1st Battalion, 502nd Infantry Regiment, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault), to a cache. The munitions included 20 multi-array explosively formed penetrators of various sizes, a shape charge, a machine gun, a Mauser rifle, two Dragonov sniper rifles, 18 Iranian manufactured RPG war heads and two RPG launchers.

Soldiers serving with Company C, 1st Battalion, 22nd Infantry Regiment, 1st Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division, discovered seven 60 mm mortars inside a bag in a courtyard in the West Rashid district of Baghdad at approximately 12:30 a.m. Sept. 16.

“American and Iraqi soldiers are persistent in their pursuit of the enemy and in removing its weapons and munitions,” said Lt. Col. Steve Stover, spokesman, 4th Infantry Div. and MND-B. “We will not cease in our efforts to successfully bring criminals and terrorists to justice.”