Operation Bull Run Disrupts Insurgent Operations

Photo By Staff Sgt. James Hutto | Soldiers from the 1st Battalion, 15th Infantry Regiment, 3rd Heavy Brigade Combate Team pull security during operations south of Salman Pak, June 24.  

FORWARD OPERATING BASE HAMMER, IRAQ

06.25.2007

Story by Spc. James Hutto 

3rd Armored Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division

by Spc. Ben Hutto, 3rd Heavy Brigade Combat Team Public Affairs

FORWARD OPERATING BASE HAMMER, Iraq – The 1st Battalion, 15th Infantry Regiment, 3rd Heavy Brigade Combat Team completed two simultaneous operations in a 48-hour period in Al Dura'iya June 24.

Operation Bull Run and Operation Blore Heath II were conducted by Soldiers with the Iraqi national police and the Iraqi army. Both operations are a part of Multi-National Division-Center's Operation Marne Torch, the latest coalition force initiative to eliminate insurgent sanctuaries southeast of Baghdad.

Two insurgents were killed and seven were detained during operations in Al Dura'iya.

Soldiers from 1-15 Inf. neutralized suspected enemy cache sites and denied insurgents safe haven in Al Dura'iaya. The operation resulted in two insurgents being killed and four individuals being detained.

Three caches were found. The caches consisted of artillery rounds, mortars, cell phones, weapons, propaganda, ammunition magazines, and other bomb-making materials.

Operation Blore Heath II, spearheaded by Iraqi army soldiers in conjunction with Iraqi 1st National Police Brigade and indirect fire assets from the 3rd HBCT, cleared insurgent caches south of Salman Pak and southeast of Baghdad. Three individuals were detained, mortar rounds and command wire were found, two boats and one vehicle destroyed, and two vehicles were confiscated.

• Date Taken: 06.25.2007
• Date Posted: 06.27.2007 07:27
• Story ID: 11001
• Location: FORWARD OPERATING BASE HAMMER, IQ