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| Iraq |
| SOLDIERS, MARINES CAPTURE (pretty big) WEAPONS CACHE |
| 2006-02-04 |
| CAMP TAQADDUM, Iraq – Soldiers with the Illinois National Guard and Marines from 2nd Marine Logistics Group (Forward), captured a weapons cache during a combat patrol west of Fallujah Feb. 2. The cache consisted of 470 60 mm mortar rounds, 360 82 mm mortar rounds, 43 57 mm rockets, 75 tubes of C3 explosives, 125 hand grenades, 7 50-kilogram bags of TNT, eight land mines, 250 mortar fuses, 500 artillery primers, 15 82 mm illumination rounds, 5 60 mm mortar systems, 1 82 mm mortar system, 11 rocket propelled grenade rounds, eight RPG, 50 anti-aircraft rounds, 20 sticks of TNT, four 12.7 mm machine guns, 1,000 7.62 mm rounds and additional items in the cache. This marks the eleventh weapons cache these service members discovered in a 13-day period in order to help maintain a safe environment for both the Iraqi people and Coalition Forces. The service members make up what is known as Task Force Blackhawk. |
| Posted by:Glenmore |
| #6 Did they get the location by interrogating a terrorist? Did his accomplices open fire when they approached the cache? I know, Iraq is not Bangledesh. |
| Posted by: Jackal 2006-02-04 20:51 |
| #5 Congratulations, Broadhead6. Great work. |
| Posted by: GK 2006-02-04 20:11 |
| #4 have to resort to throwing snowballs. ...which they can manufacture from ice scrapped from refrigerators. ;-) |
| Posted by: twobyfour 2006-02-04 19:48 |
| #3 "discovered in a 13-day period" I think "discovered" is the wrong term. These men are using good intel, detailed planning, and swift execution. Great work performed by a first class team. |
| Posted by: 49 Pan 2006-02-04 19:43 |
| #2 Excellent work. I hope they followed a splodydope to the stash. If we can get enough eyes and ears out there, these 'freedom fighters' will have to resort to throwing snowballs. |
| Posted by: wxjames 2006-02-04 19:07 |
| #1 Doing better than my Chicago Blackhawks. Continued good fortune, gentlemen! |
| Posted by: JDB 2006-02-04 18:00 |