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3rd Brigade Combat Team, 101st Airborne Division
CAMP STRIKER, Iraq – For the second day in a row, Rakkasan soldiers found explosively formed penetrators in separate caches in the Mahmudiyah area, July 6.
Soldiers from 3rd Battalion, 320th Field Artillery Regiment, 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault), found a 10-inch EFP as well as a five-array EFP in different locations approximately 35 kilometers south of Baghdad.
Other items in one of the caches were two Bulgarian-made 40 mm high-explosive hand grenades, one Russian-made 85 mm rocket, one Russian-made 122 mm projectile, 150 rounds of small-arms ammunition, a Belgian M240 weapon system, a 7.62 mm machine gun and an 80 mm mortar system.
"The discovery and consequent destruction of weapons caches is an integral part of the ongoing objective of securing the people of Iraq," said Col. Dominic Caraccilo, 3rd BCT, 101st Abn. Div. (AASLT) commander.
The items were turned over to explosive ordnance personnel for further exploitation.
| Date Taken: | 07.06.2008 |
| Date Posted: | 07.10.2008 05:00 |
| Story ID: | 21341 |
| Location: | BAGHDAD, IQ |
| Web Views: | 191 |
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