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March 01, 2008
U.S. Soldiers, Iraqi Army Discover Huge Weapons Cache
Soldiers from Company A, 3rd Battalion, 187th Infantry Regiment, 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault), uncover a huge cache of spent and unused munitions, Feb. 25, west of Owesat. Photo courtesy of 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 101st Airborne Division (AA) Public Affairs.
U.S. Soldiers, Iraqi Army Discover Huge Weapons Cache
Friday, 29 February 2008
By Capt. Allison Flannigan
101st Airborne Division Public Affairs
CAMP STRIKER
Soldiers of Company A, 3rd Battalion, 187th Infantry Regiment, 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault) discovered a significant weapons cache, Feb. 25, just one day after Iraqi Army (IA) Soldiers turned in three caches in Yusufiyah.
While establishing a checkpoint, Soldiers from 1st Platoon, Company A, conducted a security sweep. Staff Sgt. Jon Hood, from Kansas City, Mo., noticed a plastic bag on the ground.
When he kicked the bag and heard a clink, he looked down and discovered several rounds uncovered by the rainy weather. Seeing the exposed rounds, Hood and his fellow Soldiers started digging and unearthed the largest cache the brigade has found since arriving in October.
“There was a lot more to that little cache than we thought,” Hood said. In all, more than 300 live mortar rounds, between 56 mm and 155 mm, were intermixed with more than 8,000 mortar shells. With the help of local Sons of Iraq, the unit spent more than 26 hours digging up the cache.
This is the largest cache I’ve seen since I was a platoon leader with 3rd Infantry Division during Operation Iraqi Freedom I,” said Capt. Terry Hilderbrand, of Atlanta, Ga., commander of Company A. “This is definitely the largest cache we’ve pulled up since we’ve been here.”
The discovery of the massive munitions stash came one day after Soldiers from Company C, 3-187th Inf. Regt. received three caches from their IA counterparts.
Iraqi troops from 4th Battalion, 4th Brigade, 6th Iraqi Army Division recovered three large caches from Qarghuli Village and Shubayshen, and turned the munitions over to Soldiers at Patrol Base Yusufiyah.
In total, the three caches yielded one complete improvised explosive device, 190 pounds of unknown bulk explosive, 40 pounds of dynamite, (74) 82 mm mortar rounds, (18) 122 mm artillery rounds, (38) 60 mm mortar rounds, 400 additional projectiles between 23 mm and 155 mm, hundreds of assorted munitions pieces, several radios and documents.
Wild Thing's comment........
FANTASTIC! God bless our troops!
It is so amazing the tremendous amount of weapons they find. Just the thought of all of that being there and taking into consideration how much of it was probably moved to the countries nearby.
Each time they find these weapons my first thought is how these will NOT be aimed at our troops, and then I feel such pride in ouor soldiers immediately after that.
Posted by Wild Thing at March 1, 2008 12:45 AM
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I have a good feeling that soon - before the election - our troops will unearth some chemical weapons.... some WMD's! Then what would the Defeatocrats say? We saw the intel pictures and movies when Chemical Ali gassed the Kurds with mustard gas in the late 80's... they had the WMD's then and they buried them somewhere WT!Chemical Ali will soon meet his hangman!!!
What, no ACLU nor CAIR in Iraq to help him, eh?
Posted by: 2bornot2b? at March 1, 2008 05:47 AM
Also, remember, WMD's don't have to be bombs.
Some idiot had Ricin in Las Vegas along with an Anarchist book. Ricin is extremely lethal. What was he going to do with it?
And they did find Sarin and Mustard gas--those are WMDs!
Sarin is even more deadly than Ricin.
So the intelligence was correct.
If it wasn't being manufactured, why didn't Saddam allow the UN inspectors to go into those factories? It's like telling a prospective employer that they can't contact your current or last employer because you have something to hide.
Saddam deserved his fate. People need to realize that. Stop defending the enemy! OH, poor little Osama had too many brothers and sisters and didn't get enough love as a child, so now he's the meanest person on the planet. oh boo-hoo!
Posted by: Lynn at March 1, 2008 06:12 AM
2bornot2b, no CAIR and the ACLU called in sick, they call in sick every day since it is permanent condition of theirs. heh heh
Posted by: Wild Thing at March 1, 2008 04:38 PM
Lynn isn't that something about LasVegas, I have been watching the news about. What a jerk, I guess there are still a lot of unanswered questions about the man himself etc.
Posted by: Wild Thing at March 1, 2008 04:42 PM
