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RELEASE No. 20080228-04
February 28, 2008
MND-B Soldiers, ISF, local residents discover multiple caches
Multi-National Division – Baghdad PAO
BAGHDAD – Multi-National Division – Baghdad Soldiers, Iraqi Security forces and local Iraqis discovered multiple weapon and ammunition caches Feb. 27 northwest of Baghdad.
Soldiers from 2nd Squadron, 14th Cavalry Regiment, 2nd Stryker Brigade Combat Team, 25th Infantry Division, discovered a 68mm mortar round, a French-made rocket and a 68mm mortar tube during a combat patrol at approximately 10:30 a.m.
A joint combat patrol with Iraqi Army Soldiers from 2nd Battalion, 3rd Brigade, 9th Iraqi Army Division, and Soldiers from 2nd SBCT, discovered three 82mm mortar rounds, three 155mm artillery rounds, and four mortar tubes at noon.
At the same time, a local resident turned in a rocket-propelled grenade, a grenade, and two improvised-explosive devices to at a joint security station.
During a combat operation, Soldiers from 1st Battalion, 27th Infantry Regiment, 2nd SBCT, discovered a munitions cache of 15 130mm rockets, four 107mm rockets, two 57mm rockets, a 122mm artillery projectile, eight Italian landmines and 100 pounds of homemade explosive-making material.
At the same location, Soldiers also found 82 empty 107mm rocket motors, 20 empty 107mm rocket warheads, 13 empty 152mm projectiles, 16 empty 130mm rocket motors, two rocket launchers, an RPG, an RPK rifle, an AK-47 and 100 small-arms rounds.
An Iraqi sheik from the area turned in a weapons cache to Soldiers at a JSS of five 60mm mortars, two 82mm mortars, an 82mm recoilless rifle, two RPGs, two RPG launchers, a one 2.75” Brazilian rocket.
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
RELEASE No. 20080228-02
February 28, 2008
Sons of Iraq discover caches, turn over to MND-C Soldiers
Multi-National Division – Center PAO
BAGHDAD – Abna al-Iraq, or Sons of Iraq, discovered two weapons caches and turned them over to Multi-National Division – Center Soldiers in Jurf Nadaf and near al Lej Feb. 25.
The cache in Jurf Nadaf consisted of two 122 mm high-explosive projectiles, two 125 mm HE projectiles, three 122 mm empty projectile casings and 21 82 mm inert mortar rounds.
The cache near the town of al Lej consisted of a 120 mm high explosive tank round, a 60 mm mortar round and two 82 mm illumination mortar rounds.
Both caches were disposed of by an explosive ordnance disposal team.
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