[SandRat]

Twenty-three year-old Centerville, Va., resident Cpl. Herbert Ackerman, a combat engineer with 2nd Combat Engineer Battalion attached to Company L, 3rd Battalion, 5th Marine Regiment, removes a 100-mm high explosive mortar round from a buried weapons cache in the Al Anbar Province, Iraq, Feb. 25. During Operation Iron Fist the company uncovered two weapons caches with the help of Iraqi Security Forces. Photo by: Cpl. Mark Sixbey

[taxcontrol]

Wow! that is a cache!

Ok, Marines, nice work but you guys stay safe... ok?

[willgolfforfood]

I would STILL like to know:

1. Who made this ammo? Is there a country of manufacture stamped on any of it, or the boxes it came in? If not, could ammunition experts find a way to figure this out, anyway?

2. What is the manufacturing DATE of all this ammo? Is it 6 months old, or 6 years old?

3. Did they find any shipping manifest with it, indicating how many countries it was shipped to/through before it ended up in Iraq?

If this is recent ammo, someone should be kicking some serious HINEY in the country it came from!!

[adamsjas]

the largest weapons cache discovery made by Marines from L Company, 3rd Battalion, 5th Marine Regiment, since they arrived in Iraq nearly a month ago.

Oh, for pete sake, these boys are only practicing, just getting warmed up. They've only been in country 1 month. Give them time. ;-)

Imagine what could be found with ground penatrating mapping radar.

[Ramius]

“We’re going to need more C-4,”

Yah... like you ever really have *enough*...

I like the way this guy thinks.

[El Gato]

Here's part of the cache

And here's what they did with the C-4.

High res versions available by following links from here