Posted on 08/20/2007 1:52:17 PM PDT by mdittmar
MAHMUDIYAH, Iraq — Iraqi concerned citizens led Coalition Forces to four caches located in the southern belts around Baghdad Aug. 19.
Troops of Company B, 4th Battalion, 31st Infantry Regiment, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 10th Mountain Division (Light Infantry) out of Fort Drum, N.Y., and 4th Battalion, 4th Brigade, 6th Iraqi Army Division, were alerted Aug. 19 there were two caches near a highway in the Mahmudiyah area.
The call came after a contractor hired to clean out canals in the North Hargawi area found two caches along the Mulla Fayyad Highway that contained a DShKa heavy machine-gun barrel, receiver, mount, seat and tripod, 133 green flares and 54 red flares.
A local citizen took Soldiers of Co. D, 4-31st Inf. Regt. to another cache, north of al-Taqa. It contained eight 57mm and nine 150mm canisters and two 50-pound bags of homemade explosives.
Northwest, at Patrol Base Warrior Keep, near Sadr al-Yusufiyah, a concerned citizen brought a cache containing a 155mm round, 10 pounds of homemade explosive, and a pressure-bar trigger for an improvised explosive device to troops of the 2nd Battalion, 14th Infantry Regiment, 2nd BCT.
An explosive ordnance team destroyed all contents of the caches during a controlled detonation.
“Keep those cards and letters rolling in folks.”
We saw a couple of these bolted to the bed of a pick up. The problem is pretty much all the trucks over there are tiny little beat to death Datsuns and the like. The heavy recoil from this 12.7mm gun nearly topples them. It’s actually kind of funny to watch. Combine the recoil with a fast turn and the inhabitants are bound to get a severe case of road rach.
If I counted right that was a total of 6 caches. Out of site!
Dude, this would look awesome in the back of my Toyota!
FR WAR NEWS! 133 green flares and 54 red flares. Ok, forgive my ignorance but I’ve never seen those listed in any cache finds before. What are the purpose of those flares to a terrorist/insurgent?
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