Posted on 10/22/2006 8:50:19 PM PDT by Robert Drobot
Marines from B Company's 3rd Platoon stand next to one of the many weapons' caches they dug from the ground during Operation Rubicon in Mushin, Iraq, west of Habbaniyah. The Recon Marines unearthed hundreds of mortars, artillery shells, rifles, machines guns, ammunition and improvised explosive device-making materials. Marines found so many caches, they said they could barely make it 100 meters before discovering another buried weapons' site.
link?
Wow! And I thought the Democrats & Co. keep saying we aren't making progress! Well, so much for not finding WMDs. How many could have been killed by those caches?
Post need help....No picture, no link. Moderator can you help?
You'd have to search around. I posted the link in #7
IB4TZT!!!
Thank you. Just going to strategy page didn't help.
http://www.strategypage.com/gallery/articles/military_photos_20069661128.asp
BTTT
ummmm...ok
And our friendly moderators has placed it up top.
Thanks Mod!
My thanks too!
Do you know exactly where this is? I can't find it on Google Earth.
Sorry...when people post hysterical headlines with no links, I am skeptical. The Admin Mod fixed this one.
I am tired of all-caps heds with no links.
forgiven :)
Except...you tried to say I was a troll once too. ;)
U.S. Marines In Iraq Find Multiple Weapons Caches
American Forces Press Service
WASHINGTON, Sep. 4, 2006 – U.S. Marines from Regimental Combat Team 5 found hundreds of weapons recently during Operation Rubicon in Mushin, Iraq, west of Habbaniyah, U.S. officials reported.
The Marines, assigned to 3rd Battalion, 2nd Marine Regiment and 2nd Reconnaissance Battalion, seized more than 500 mortar rounds, nearly 100 artillery rounds, more than 130 rocket-propelled grenades, an excess of 120 grenades, 22 mines, 10 mortar tubes, 20 rifles and machine guns, 18 sets of body armor and various other items including binoculars and bayonets.
“This area was definitely an insurgent stronghold,” said Cpl. Brandon M. Stair, 25, a team leader assigned to 2nd Reconnaissance Battalion, who was among the group that discovered the cache sites.
The insurgents, Stair said, had stored “stuff for the long fight, and they had stuff for tomorrow.”
One cache yielded 500 blasting caps, each one capable of detonating a single improvised explosive device. Another cache yielded mortars. Another was a stash of sniper rifles.
“Every cache was a separate set-up,” explained 35-year-old Gunnery Sgt. Kenneth A. Westgate, assigned to 2nd Reconnaissance Battalion.
“We usually find just mortars or just guns. These had a mix of everything.” Sgt. Joshua D. Cross, a 26-year-old reconnaissance team leader, said.
A local Iraqi thanked the Marines for helping to clear the area of insurgents, Cross said. “He was real grateful for what we were doing there,” the Marine said.
(From a Multinational Corps Iraq news release.)
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