AR RAMADI, Iraq(Sept 5, 2005) -- Marines with 4th Platoon, Company A, 1st Combat Engineer Battalion, supporting 1st Battalion, 5th Marine Regiment, uncovered several large weapons caches buried in fields on the southern outskirts of the Al Anbar capital here during an anti-insurgent operation Aug. 15. According to the Marines’ tally, they discovered a mortar tube, more than 200 artillery shells in sizes ranging from 60 mm to 155 mm, four .50 caliber machine gun barrels plus more than 2000 rounds of ammunition and approximately 1000 7.62 mm rounds, 600 of which were armor piercing. “We saved Marines’ lives today...