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November 20, 2007
Local Children Find Mortar And Bring To Soldiers
Local children find mortar, Concerned Local Citizens find caches
By Sgt. Kevin Stabinsky, 2nd BCT, 3rd Inf. Div. PAO
FORWARD OPERATING BASE Kalsu, Iraq
Three weapons caches were found in separate incidents in the Hawr Rajab and Arab Jabour regions Nov. 11.
Concerned Local Citizens in Hawr Rajab located a cache consisting of one 155mm mortar and one 130 mm mortar round. The CLCs brought the ordnance to Paratroopers of Troop B, 1st Squadron, 40th Cavalry Regiment, 4th Brigade Combat Team (Airborne), 25th Infantry Division, Fort Richardson, Alaska, who were conducting a roadside security mission.
Local children in Arab Jabour discovered a 57 mm mortar, which they brought to Soldiers of Company B, 1st Battalion, 30th Infantry Regiment, 2nd BCT, 3rd Inf. Div., Fort Stewart, Ga.
The third cache was discovered in Arab Jabour by Soldiers of Company A, 1-30th Inf. Regt. while conducting operations in the area.
The cache consisted of one 120 mm mortar and one 125 mm mortar.
"It is good to have the [improvised explosive devices] or bombs off the streets because it makes the community safer," said Sgt. 1st Class Gerald Newton, from Texarkana, Texas, 1-30th Inf. Regt., tactical command post noncommissioned officer in charge. "The more we work with the CLCs the safer we can make their communities."
All three caches were destroyed in controlled detonations by explosive ordnance disposal teams.
Wild Thing's comment........
Good! Of course this would be very upsetting to Reid, and Pelosi and others to know that there actually were people wanting our troops to help them and that they were glad our soldiers were there.
Posted by Wild Thing at November 20, 2007 12:47 AM
Comments
I'll bet those kids were also told not to bring in any more live stuff and to let the EOD do the handling. 57mm is bad news and they found and destroyed even larger stuff, glad nobody was injured and the stuff is gone. You're right about Pelosi and Reid.
Posted by: Jack at November 20, 2007 01:40 AM
Jack, I bet your right.
Posted by: Wild Thing at November 21, 2007 12:10 AM
