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Iraqi and U.S. Soldiers lay out items recovered from the cache found near Tarmiyah, June 23. The items included a hundred different rockets and mortars, thousands of rounds of ammunition and materials for bomb making. (U.S. Army photo)
CAMP TAJI, Iraq - Iraqi Security Forces and Soldiers from Multi-National Division — Baghdad discovered a massive weapons cache June 23, near Tarmiyah, Iraq.
Soldiers from 4th Battalion, 36th Iraqi Army Brigade, and U.S. troops with 1st Battalion, 111th Infantry Regiment, 56th Stryker Brigade Combat Team seized the cache while conducting clearance operations in the vicinity of the village approximately 18 miles north of Baghdad.
The cache included 26 grenades; 35 RPGs; five IEDs with detonation devices; two anti-personnel mines; one suicide vest; one hundred rocket and mortar rounds and a mix of other ammunition, including thousands of small-arms rounds.
Iraqi and U.S. Soldiers also recovered base elements used to produce explosives, including military grade plastic explosives and the mechanisms for triggering them.
Coalition force explosive ordinance disposal technicians safely conducted a controlled detonation to dispose of the cache.
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