Stryker Brigade News

MND-B Soldiers seize weapons caches

Nov- 4-2008 » Filed Under: 1/25 SBCT , 2/25 SBCT

Multi-National Corps – Iraq

BAGHDAD – Iraqi Army soldiers, Iraqi policemen, Sons of Iraq and Multi-National Division – Baghdad Soldiers seized weapons caches in Baghdad Nov. 2.

Soldiers serving with 4th Battalion, 24th Brigade, 6th Iraqi Army Division, found a cache west of Baghdad at approximately 2 p.m. The munitions include four RPG-7 rocket motors, 19 flares, two hand grenades, a bag of AK-47 ammunition, and two bags of PKM ammunition.

A tip from a local SoI shaykh led MND-B Soldiers from Company B, 1st Battalion, 14th Infantry Regiment, 2nd Stryker Brigade Combat Team, 25th Infantry Division, to a cache north of Baghdad at approximately 3:15 p.m. The weapons seized included a 120 mm high-explosive mortar round, 15 57 mm anti-aircraft projectiles, a can of 14.5 DSHKA rounds, three 82 mm mortars, a 73 mm high-explosive projectile, a 100 mm APC-T projectile, two 100 mm projectiles and two rocket motors.

At approximately the same times Soldiers serving in Company C,1st Battalion, 14th Infantry Regiment, 2nd Stryker Brigade Combat Team, 25th Infantry Division, found three PG-7s, a 82mm mortar round and a rocket war head north of Baghdad.

While on patrol, policemen serving with 1st Battalion, 4th Brigade, 1st National Police Division, found a 10-inch explosively formed penetrator and an 82mm rifle round on the side of the road in the New Baghdad district of Baghdad.

“Iraqi Security Forces and Multi-National Division – Baghdad Soldiers continue to sweep more harmful munitions and weapons from the hands of those who would use them to harm the Iraqi people,” said Lt. Col. Steve Stover, spokesman, 4th Infantry Division and Multi-National Division – Baghdad.