It finally stopped snowing, the sun is coming out and it's +14F.
I get off in 20 minutes just so I can go home and hibernate until it warms up again.
BBQ's are overrated (until I start having them again...hehehehe)
well, I'll take care of a Heineken for you..I'll look north and raise my bottle..
The combined force moved through the area using intelligence and planning provided primarily by the Iraqi security forces, officials said. The operation, they added, resulted in 104 suspected insurgents being detained and questioned and 24 weapons caches discovered.
The caches included:
Six shoulder-fired surface-to-air missiles;
More than 350 mortar rounds and three mortar systems;
26 artillery rounds;
A variety of bomb-making materials and other military items;
More than 120 rockets;
More than 3,200 rounds of small-arms ammunition;
86 rocket-propelled grenades and 28 launchers;
Six land mines;
12 hand grenades and 40 rifle grenades; and
34 rifles and machine guns of various types.
All units have safely returned to their garrison locations and forward operating bases preparing for future operations, officials said.
In other news from Iraq, elements of the 2nd Battalion, 3rd Brigade, 6th Iraqi Army Division, found five weapons cache sites west of Baghdad yesterday. The caches contained 17 pressure plate initiators, 18 106 mm heat rounds, 400 blasting caps, 20 radios with timers, 40 artillery rounds of various sizes and a large amount of .50-caliber rounds.