Posted on 05/21/2008 5:31:12 PM PDT by mdittmar
CAMP VICTORY, Iraq – A local sheik, informed by a Sons of Iraq member, gave a tip to Coalition forces, leading them to a huge munitions cache approximately 13 kilometers south of Baghdad May 21.
Soldiers from 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault), retrieved the cache containing 268, 57 mm mortar rounds; two, 82 mm mortars and four, 107 mm rocket casings.
None of the rounds were serviceable, but they could have been alternately used as improvised explosive devices.
The munitions were turned over to Iraqi Army personnel at a nearby compound.
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