155th Brigade Combat Team Soldiers uncover weapons cache [Surface-to-Air Missiles]

Multi-National Force, Iraq ^ | 8/12/2005 | Maj. Erby Montgomery, public affairs officer, 155th Brigade Combat Team

[Excuse_My_Bellicosity]

FORWARD OPERATING BASE KALSU, Iraq - Soldiers of the 150th Engineer Battalion, 155th Brigade Combat Team, II Marine Expeditionary Force (Forward) recently discovered a weapons cache near Forward Operating Base Dogwood.

Items seized and subsequently destroyed include 36 individual SA-7 surface-to-air missiles and 4,480 rounds of 14.5mm heavy machine gun ammunition.

The 155th BCT is a U.S. Army unit assigned to II Marine Expeditionary Force (Forward) in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom.

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For more information, contact Maj. Erby Montgomery, public affairs officer, 155th Brigade Combat Team, at erby.montgomery@us.army.mil.

[Excuse_My_Bellicosity]

These weapons cache stories are so common these days and that's a good thing. But 36 SAMs is big time!

[in hoc signo vinces]

Exactly...the whole country is one big weapons dump.

[ncountylee]

Bravo!

[fhayek]

Exactly...the whole country is one big weapons dump.

Yeah, but you can leave off the word 'weapons'.

[Boundless]

> But 36 SAMs is big time!

Yep. However, it would have been interesting to learn
where they were made and their date codes.

[Excuse_My_Bellicosity]

Yep. I'll bet the Marines are looking!

[elhombrelibre]

Why do you think they don't know those thing?

[Excuse_My_Bellicosity]

Bump!

[mountainlyons]

These are not weapons of mass destruction? What about the 18 tons of precessed uranium not being WMD?

[livius]

Between this and the chemical weapons "distillery" discovered this week...I wonder where all these things are coming from? Iran? Syria?

[NerdDad]

Missippy Ping.

These are our boys making us proud once again. God Bless Em.

[madfgurtbn]

it would have been interesting to learn where they were made and their date codes

Here's some info on the SA-7: http://www.fas.org/man/dod-101/sys/missile/row/sa-7.htm

According to that site the SA-7 is of Soviet heritage. First introduced in 1968, then upgraded 1972.

I can't find anything in Google news or elsewhere giving more info about the provenance of the particular cache of SA-7 in the article.

Looks like a relatively obsolete weapons, but certainly a threat, especially to our choppers.

[dixiechick2000]

Thanks for the post and ping!

Are these guys great, or what?!
These Marines make me very proud,
as do ALL Marines! They are doing
yeoman's work over there.

God Bless 'Em bump!



"FORWARD OPERATING BASE KALSU, Iraq, August 06, 2005

Iraqi Security Forces and U.S. Soldiers captured 39 suspected insurgents during a raid yesterday morning in Sharmiyah. Among the detainees were those suspected of being key insurgent leaders in the area."

"The Soldiers were from the 150th Engineer Battalion, 155th Brigade Combat Team, II Marine Expeditionary Force (Forward). The 155th BCT is a U.S. Army unit assigned to the II Marine Expeditionary Force (Fwd) during Operation Iraqi Freedom."

http://www.blackanthem.com/News/2005080606.html

[WKB]

Maybe Fox News should have a 2 hour special
on the 155th.

[NerdDad]

I bet they could do it. I signed up for a Google alert on the 155th when they deployed. I don't think there has been a week go by that I haven't got at least one article mentioning them. They are definitely making us proud.

[debihawk]

These are not marines doing this....These are our boys & girls from Mississippi in the Army National Guard 150th Combat Engineer Battalion who are attached to the 1/155th Infantry Battalion.

They have suffered many losses of comrades and continue to do an outstanding service for their countrymen and others of this world who uphold freedom as a right to be enjoyed by every human being.

There is a "daily [almost] journal" posted on the dixiesappers.org website at the address below:

www.dixiesappers.org/hhc/journal/archive.html