Posted on 11/07/2004 8:00:59 AM PST by Excuse_My_Bellicosity
November 7, 2004
Release Number: 04-11-20
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
SOLDIERS FIND WEAPONS CACHES NEAR BALAD
TIKRIT, Iraq -- First Infantry Division Soldiers from 1st Battalion, 77th Infantry Regiment discovered three weapon caches near Balad on Nov 6.
The first cache was discovered at about 1 p.m. A continued search of the area found two other caches with the following items: 27 PG-9 rockets, 27 OG-9 projectiles, one BK-88m projectile, two PG-7M rockets, nine OG-7 projectiles, three F3B Bombs, two 60mm HE mortar rounds, seven PE-4A 2.3kg demo, 20 Electric cap demo, three S-5M rockets, three RCM rockets, three AT mines, 375 M6 fuses, three PKG-3EM Grenades, four Smoke pots, 40 assorted grenades, 26 V5K PD fuses, one 122mm BK6M Projectile, 55 120mm HE mortar round, 3,000 small arms rounds, 26 82mm illumination mortar rounds, 24 82mm HE mortar rounds, two SA-14 guided missiles, three RPG launchers, six 60mm mortar tubes, one OG-9 launchers, one bolt-action rifle and one 25mm machine gun barrel.
The weapons and munitions were destroyed in place.
I was amazed at all the ammunition the John Kerry was able to identify as being missing, but could not show us ONE scar from his Vietnam wounds !!
This will not sit well with the Kerry supporters.
There are more weapons in one square block in Bensonhurt (that's in Brooklyn, which is in NYC which is in NY state).
Most will not see it; hear it. . .the rest will ignore it.
The insurgents are losing. It is simply a matter of time. Their only hope was a Kerry victory.
FOR THOSE UNFAMILIAR WITH BALAD:
http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/iraq/balad.htm&fr2=http
What really jumped out at me in the article is "two SA-14 guided missiles". Those are the very latest Russian surface-to-air missiles. This find may very possibly have saved US aviators.
Any evidence of their use by the insurgents?
Good eye and astute knowledge!
Russian huh?
Well, Mr Putin, what say you?
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1054043/posts
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1025190/posts
I take it those were the aircraft that were getting pot shots as they were landing and taking off. I suppose insurgents or other terrorist groups want to smuggle them out of the country as well (assuming Syria doesn't already have much of that stash).
"Very latest" may be a misnomer, but keep in mind that it is very widely used, as opposed to most of the later Russian missiles that are development projects that didn't see a lot of production due to lack of money and resources. Also, even though the missile was developed in 1978, its seeker heads and electronics were updated beyond the 1978 level of development.
Someone with talent should write a song: The Ballad of Balad.
But all those four months of fighting makes Kerry thrash in his sleep - "punching Theraaayyyyza in her sleep" Well now we know he has an excuse for it.
SOUTHWEST ASIA -- Airmen with the 8th Expeditionary Maintenance and 379th Expeditionary Civil Engineer Squadrons remove the No. 4 engine from a C-5 Galaxy at a forward-deployed location here Jan. 14. The Galaxy landed with three engines after it had an in-flight emergency during take off from Baghdad International Airport. Initial reports indicate the incident was the result of hostile action from the ground. (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Suzanne M. Jenkins)
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