[rocklobster11]

Soldier speaks:

• Didn't realize it was an issue until late Tuesday
• He initially thought this was a recent report
• Finally saw a video that made him realize it was about the stuff he had worked with
• Last night, he talked to the Pentagon, and they asked him to come in
• He was commander of 24th ordinance company
• Based in Logistics support area Dogwood, south of Bagdad
• Managed captured ammunition area at Dagwood
• Conducted missions to get captured ammunition from schools, houses, etc.
• Returned from mission in Bagdad to assist with 101st ID to remove weapons from Objective Elms (Al Qaqaa)

more to come

[rit]

thanks for the info... keep it coming....

[Tread]

Thanks for the concise summary. It's involvement with posters like you that make me extra proud to be a Freeper.

[rocklobster11]

Soldiers speaks some more:

• mission to find any exposed ammunition that could pose a threat to US forces or was easily accessible
• had 9 16-ton trucks with him
• moved ammunition from Al QaQaa to the captured ammunition dump
• then destroyed camptured ammunition
• destroyed ammunition in 5 ton batches
• the captured ammunition dump was 7000 tons
• captured ammunition dump was destroyed by fire in July
• thinks they removed 250 tons of ammo from Al QaQaa
• some was similar to what was on video from yesterday
• some was RDX
• maybe up to 3 tons of RDX
• lots of plastic explosive removed

[TruthNtegrity]

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