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3rd Brigade Combat Team, 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault), Public Affairs Office
CAMP STRIKER, Iraq – Iraqi army and Rakkasan soldiers located a weapons cache in Abu Osage, about 30 kilometers southwest of Baghdad, after following up on a tip from a local resident, May 14.
Soldiers from 1st Battalion, 25th Brigade, 6th IA Division, and 4th Platoon, Battery B, 3rd Battalion, 320th Field Artillery, 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault), were conducting a joint patrol when they uncovered the buried cache.
The cache contained four 120 mm mortar rounds, three 155 mm mortar rounds, two 105 mm mortar rounds, three 57 mm anti-aircraft rounds, six boxes of DSHKA rounds, two boxes of 25 mm mortar rounds, one box of 60 mm mortar fuses and one 120 mm mortar tube with tripod.
The munitions were taken to the Lutifiyah IA Compound for disposal at a later date.
| Date Taken: | 05.15.2008 |
| Date Posted: | 05.16.2008 11:56 |
| Story ID: | 19468 |
| Location: | BAGHDAD, IQ |
| Web Views: | 141 |
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