Photo by Spc. Cal Turner | 28th Public Affairs Detachment | 02.26.2007
Capt. Clayton Combs, commander, Company C, 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 1st Cavalry Division, displays U.S. Army field manuals and training aides that were uncovered in the weapons cache his unit discovered yesterday near Baquba. The weapons cache, which held enough raw material needed to build over 150 explosively formed pentetrators, was the largest EFP cache his unit had ever discovered.......
Photo by Spc. Cal Turner | 28th Public Affairs Detachment | 02.26.2007
More than 150 copper discs were found in a weapons cache near Baquba yesterday. The copper discs are a vital component to the explosively formed penetrators that have been used to attack coalition forces due to their capability to penetrate uparmored vehicles. While other munitions found in the cache were made in Iran, there are no tell-tale markings to the origins of the lethal discs....
Photo by Spc. Cal Turner | 28th Public Affairs Detachment | 02.26.2007
Capt. Clayton Combs, commander, Company C, 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 1st Cavalry Division, displays one of many copper plates, vital components in explosively formed penetrators, uncovered in a weapons cache near Baquba yesterday. The cache had enough raw material to manufactor more than 150 EFPs....
Photo by Spc. Cal Turner | 28th Public Affairs Detachment | 02.26.2007
Steel plates used when manufactoring explosively formed penetrators, a form of improvised explosive device that uses molten copper to penetrate armor, were uncoverd in a weapons cache near Baquba yesterday....
Photo by Spc. Cal Turner | 28th Public Affairs Detachment | 02.26.2007
A weapons cache discovered near Baquba yesterday uncovered Iranian manufactored rockets and mortar shells used by insurgents to attack Coalition forces and Iraqi civilians....
Photo by Staff Sgt. Curt Cashour | 28th Public Affairs Detachment | 02.24.2007
(From right) Lt. Col. Richard Kim, commander of the 2nd Battalion, 325th Airborne Infantry Regiment, leads Lt. Gen. Ray Odierno, commander of Multi-National Corps - Iraq, on a tour of Combat Outpost Callahan Feb. 24. Located in the Adhamiyah district, Callahan is one of several new outposts designed to give coalition forces a 24-hour presence in Baghdad's neighborhoods. (U.S. Army Photo by......
