Stryker Brigade News

MND-B Soldiers seize weapons, munitions

Nov-25-2008 » Filed Under: 2/25 SBCT

Multi-National Division – Baghdad PAO

BAGHDAD – Iraqi soldiers and Multi-National Division – Baghdad Soldiers seized weapons caches throughout Baghdad Nov. 24.

Iraqi Army soldiers serving with 1st Battalion, 25th Brigade, 17th Iraq Army Division and Soldiers of Company D, 1st Combined Arms Battalion, 63rd Armor Regiment, 2nd Brigade, 1st Armor Division, discovered a weapons cache south of Baghdad at 9:30 a.m. The cache included 11 artillery rounds, 34 57 mm rockets, two boxes of 25 mm and 30 mm ammunition, a can of pellets, two spools of TNT and 44 various artillery rounds.

At 10 a.m. soldiers serving with 1st Battalion, 22nd Brigade, 6th Iraq Army Division received a tip leading them to a cache in Karkh. They found two mortars, a fuse and an illumination round hidden in a trash pile in front of an apartment building. The IA turned the cache over to the 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 1st Infantry Division.

At approximately noon, Soldiers serving with 2nd Squadron, 14th Cavalry Regiment, 2nd Stryker Brigade Combat Team, 25th Infantry Division found weapons north of Baghdad. The cache consisted of two anti-aircraft guns with two additional barrels and a tripod.

Soldiers serving with Company C, 1st Battalion, 14th Infantry Regiment, 2nd Stryker Brigade Combat Team, 25th Infantry Division, received a cache north of Baghdad at approximately 7:30 p.m. IA soldiers turned over a weapons cache that included seven machine guns, six rifles, seven rocket-propelled grenade launchers, six RPG warheads, 15 RPG boosters, two RPG sights, 30 half-loaded AK-47 magazines, a mortar sight, 1,000 rounds of AK-47 ammunition, ten MK-19 rounds, seven sticks of professional grade TNT, a feed sack full of TNT sticks, 300 meters of detonation cord, two improvised explosive devices, a remote control device, 20 hand grenades, nine 57 mm projectiles, various rocket components and a bag of fuses.

“Throughout the Baghdad province, MND-B Soldiers, in full partnership with Iraqi Security Forces are taking weapons and munitions out of hands of terrorists and extremists in order to protect the Iraqi people,” said Lt. Col. Steve Stover, spokesman, MND-B and the 4th Infantry Division. “Together, with the [Government of Iraq] and ISF, we will deny the enemy safe haven and rest, encourage displaced Iraqis to return, and transition the [Sons of Iraq] leading up to successful provincial elections.”