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Blackanthem Military News
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Last Updated:
May 16, 2012 - 4:45:44 PM |
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Blackanthem Military News
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| Soldiers from Battery B, 1st Battalion, 9th Field Artillery, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 3rd Infantry Division, and Iraqi army soldiers found refrigerators that contained numerous rockets, mortars and ammunition Nov. 13. (Courtesy Army photo) |
FORWARD OPERATING BASE KALSU, Iraq - A former member of an insurgent group led Coalition Forces, Iraqi army and Concerned Local Citizens to a cache site near Patrol Base W-1 in the early morning hours of Nov. 13.
The citizen, who reconciled with U.S. and Iraqi troops, knew where the cache was because he helped bury it sometime ago. He said he is now helping Coalition Forces because he is tired of al-Qaeda trying to force him to work with them. He said al-Qaeda imprisoned him and tortured his friends for not joining forces with them.
The Soldiers from Battery B, 1st Battalion, 9th Field Artillery, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 3rd Infantry Division, and IA found refrigerators that contained numerous rockets, mortars and ammunition.
Finding and destroying a weapons cache of this size will help slow enemy attacks in the area, said Capt. David Underwood, Battery B, 1-9th FA commander. He added that the find boosted the troops’ morale.
"They were pumped, they wanted to go look for another cache," Underwood said.
Underwood called the night’s mission a success. "Anytime you can find something like this it's big," he said. "It was a huge night for us."
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| Soldiers from Battery B, 1st Battalion, 9th Field Artillery, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 3rd Infantry Division, and Iraqi army soldiers found refrigerators that contained numerous rockets, mortars and ammunition Nov. 13. (Courtesy Army photo) |
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| Soldiers from Battery B, 1st Battalion, 9th Field Artillery, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 3rd Infantry Division, and Iraqi army soldiers found refrigerators that contained numerous rockets, mortars and ammunition Nov. 13. (Courtesy Army photo) |
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| Soldiers from Battery B, 1st Battalion, 9th Field Artillery, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 3rd Infantry Division, and Iraqi army soldiers found refrigerators that contained numerous rockets, mortars and ammunition Nov. 13. (Courtesy Army photo) |
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