[SandRat]

Corporal Ryan Almagro digs in search of a weapons cache on a roadside in the Albu Krawar village outside of Balad, Iraq, Dec. 4. Almagro is a part of Cobra Black One, a group of Soldiers dedicated to locating weapons caches. Sgt. Dallas Walker

[SandRat]

News from the front

[RexBeach]

These guys are the best.

Merry Christmas to them!

[prophetic]

reminds me of the "Tunnel Rats" guys back in Vietnam :-)

[StarCMC]

Great story SandRat!! But I had to giggle at this....

Persistence bares fruit

OOOOHHH NNNOOOOOOOO!! NOT NEKKID FRUIT! LOL!!

[2banana]

I would say:

Local Intel
Fresh Tracks
Looking for things that don't belong
Looking for things that just popped out of nowhere
Something that doesn't look right
How would I do it - then look
Get to know the locals
Knowing your surroundings and your Spidey Sense...

[beebuster2000]

cool!!

[HardStarboard]

I'd like to see the guys from Cobra Black one dig up the terrorist weapons caches located on the left side of the isle in both the House and Senate.

yes Corporal, you have permission to use your bayonet!

[Squantos]

Damn fine work !!

Awesome work !

Merry Christmas SandRat !

[mcshot]

Great story on the actions of Cobra Black One.

mc

[manwiththehands]

Sounds like a fun and dangerous job. Talk about making a contribution to the war effort.

[John Jorsett]

It'd be fun to booby trap these caches to kill the enemy when he comes back to dig them up. After a few of these, even the undiscovered caches would be suspect to the enemy. Unfortunately, you might accidentally kill an American patrol who wasn't in on the scheme.

[geezerwheezer]

The bad dudes are learning that they can run, but they can't hide from the REALLY BAD DUDES...aka: US SOLDIERS!! Way to go and good luck on your hunt!!

[womcg]

"GO FOR BROKE"!! Their unit heritage shows.
Merry Christmas.

[KenmcG414]

May God bless the American heroes. Merry Christmas to all!!

[Chode]

ping... not gunz but coool!!!

[Calpernia]

“Sergeant Naluai and 1st Lt. [Sam] Tagavilla came over the radio one day and said they thought they found something,” McCoy said, who was pulling security at the time. “Everyone got excited and waited by the radio to hear what was going on. Then they pulled out their first mortar.”

According to Naluai, there were 49 mortar rounds in that first cache – 30 60mm rounds and 19 82mm rounds.

[McGavin999]

“It’s hard work,” Naluai added. “This is the glory of cache hunting. Sometimes you get it. Sometimes you don’t. You have to be self motivated. It’s a job with no glory. I guess the trick to success is to think like [the enemy]. You have to learn to read the land.”

As far as I'm concerned there's LOTS of glory. Every young man or woman who comes home with all their arms and legs may have you to thank for it.

Good job!