Posted on 01/07/2006 7:18:03 AM PST by Excuse_My_Bellicosity
January 7, 2006
Release A060107d
Soldiers seize, destroy weapons caches
BAGHDAD, Iraq – In separate operations, Task Force Baghdad Soldiers seized a significant amount of weapons Jan. 4, further denying terrorists the opportunity to bring harm to Iraqi civilians and Coalition Forces.
One of the caches was so significant that Soldiers conducted a controlled detonation on the spot.
While conducting a local presence patrol in south Baghdad, Soldiers discovered a weapons cache at approximately 1 p.m. The cache included 34 155mm artillery rounds, two 130mm artillery rounds, two 82mm mortar rounds, three 60mm mortar rounds, three TJ7 kickout mortar rounds, 8,500 7.62mm rounds, two 668-type 6 rockets, one 30mm barrel and 100 feet of detonation cord. The patrolling Soldiers notified an explosive ordinance disposal unit, which performed the detonation.
Soldiers patrolling north of Baghdad discovered the second cache at approximately 3 p.m., which included 22 surface-to-air missiles and 5,000 rounds of 2.3mm ammunition. The Soldiers seized control of the cache and rendered the area safe.
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FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION CONCERNING THIS RELEASE, CONTACT THE TASK FORCE BAGHDAD PUBLIC AFFAIRS PLANS AND OPERATIONS NCO, MASTER SGT ERIC LOBSINGER AT: eric.lobsinger@mnd-b.army.mil .
BTW, in the last line of the article, 2.3mm ammo seems really small. Maybe the author meant 23mm or .223 caliber?
Good guy bump!
Never to be on broadcast MSM.
Although we have to report something I'm thinking there were so many thousands of tons of munitions before we started that it won't be possible to recover all of it. Did we ever manage to secure the big lots? How much was hidden? I like to hear that we recovered multi-ton lots.
Here's a large lot that was destroyed: http://images.military.com/Video/051219_EOD.wmv
Probably one of them. I've never even heard of anyone wildcatting in 2.3mm. 5000 rounds to me suggests small-arms ammo, so I'd bet that we're talking .223.
Too bad we can't ping this over to that stupid troll we had earlier this morning.
'BTW, in the last line of the article, 2.3mm ammo seems really small. Maybe the author meant 23mm or .223 caliber?'
It is 23 MM ammo. An air defense and anti personnel round.
Wow. I don't envy the guys that had to move all that old nasty crap to the burn site one little bit.
No doubt, it's probably .223. 2.3mm is less than half the size of .22 cal. We're getting into the category of something fired from a pellet gun. I'm doubting you'd use that in a war zone.
I'm familiar with it. I didn't think the bad guys would have much surviving that could fire it though. ZPUs and the like tend to draw a lot of attention there when fired these days, one would think.
Oh, OK. I wasn't sure if 23mm was something used or not (I've heard of 20mm and 30mm). So it appears the author accidentally slipped in a decimal point there.
They found surface-to-air missiles, so it makes sense that some Russian AA rounds would be with it.
LOLOL!! I'd nominate that for a Top Ten Tagline list. :-)
They found surface-to-air missiles, so it makes sense that some Russian AA rounds would be with it.
Fair enough- stands to reason. Doesn't seem like it'd be very useful these days though. Things that fire 23mm are hard to drag away when payback time comes.
I'm surprised American soldiers took time out of their busy day to locate and detonate the weapons cache. After all, they have their hands full, what with 'invading Iraqi homes and terrorizing all those women and children'. (John Kerry, and God help us, he's already running.)
That was neat !!
Way to go guys!!!!
Cool stuff. Thanks for posting.
"Task Force Baghdad Soldiers...bring harm to Iraqi civilians..."
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