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Citizens’ tips lead MND-B Soldiers to weapons in Baghdad

Dec-17-2008 » Filed Under: 2/25 SBCT

Multi-National Division – Baghdad

BAGHDAD – Tips from concerned citizens led Multi-National Division – Baghdad Soldiers to weapons caches in the Baghdad area Dec 16.

A local citizen turned in unexploded ordnance to Soldiers serving with the 411th Military Police, 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division, north of Baghdad at approximately 10:40 a.m. Soldiers serving with Company A, 1st Battalion, 27th Infantry Regiment, 2nd Stryker Brigade Combat Team, 25th Infantry Division, and an EOD assessed the munitions to include a 120 mm projectile and a hand grenade.

At approximately 2 p.m., a tip from a local Iraqi citizen guided Soldiers serving with Troop C, 2nd Squadron, 14th Cavalry Regiment, 2nd Stryker Brigade Combat Team, 25th Infantry Division, to a hand grenade and a trip flare north of Baghdad.

Soldiers serving with Company C, 1st Battalion, 21st Infantry Regiment, 2nd Stryker Brigade Combat Team, 25th Infantry Division, found a weapons cache west of Baghdad at approximately 2:30 p.m. The munitions included two OS-56 projectiles, a 122 mm projectile, a 130 mm projectile, a 155 mm projectile and a 462 projectile.


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