Posted on 04/16/2008 5:16:11 PM PDT by SandRat
BAGHDAD – Sons of Iraq led Multi-National Division – Center Soldiers from Troop C, 3rd Squadron, 1st Cavalry Regiment, and Iraqi Policemen with 3rd Brigade, 1st National Police Division to a large weapons cache in Tameem, a town east of Baghdad, April 14.
The cache was buried approximately 500 meters from the NPheadquarters in Tameem.
“The cache had been in the ground a long time,” said 1st Lt. Andrew Ellison, from Coleman, Ala., a squad leader in Troop C. “EOD (explosive ordnance disposal) Soldiers estimated that the munitions had been buried for over a year based on their condition.”
The cache contained 389 82 mm mortar rounds, 96 125 mm tank rounds, 172 57 mm anti-aircraft rounds, 38 60 mm mortar rounds, 30 130 mm artillery rounds, 17 122 mm mortar rounds, 15 100 mm rockets, seven 155 artillery rounds, five 100 kg aircraft bombs and four 120 mm mortar rounds.
“Even though many of the munitions were badly degraded, they could have still been used to make IEDs (improvised explosive devices),” Ellison said.
“We are extremely happy to help interdict these accelerants here.”
The 3-1st Cav. Regt. is assigned to the 3rd Heavy Brigade Combat Team, 3rd Infantry Division, from Fort Benning, Ga., and has been deployed in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom since March 2007. The 789th Ordnance Company (EOD) is from Ft. Benning, Ga., and is currently assigned to the 3rd HBCT.
Here we go again. I would hope every time they find this, “stuff”, no matter how old it is, they identify the manufacture. Who do we ask to get this info?
I know it’s out there someplace.
Until they are ready to release that infomation you can’t get it anywhere.
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