Multi-National Corps – Iraq
Public Affairs Office, Camp Victory
APO AE 09342

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
RELEASE No. 20080509-05
May 9, 2008

MND-C Soldiers discover weapons cache in Sa’id Abdullah Corridor

3rd BCT, 101st Abn. Div. (AASLT), PAO

Multi-National Division – Center PAO

BAGHDAD – Soldiers from 320th Field Artillery, 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault), unearthed a cache during air assault operations in the Sa’id Abdullah Corridor, about 30 kilometers southwest of Baghdad, May 6.

Soldiers from 320th Field Artillery, found a buried cache that contained 18 86 mm projectiles, three 82 mm rounds, three 130 mm rounds prepared as improvised explosive devices, one 75 mm rocket, one 60 mm mortar base plate, one rocket-propelled grenade round and one packing tube with 2,500 7.62 mm rounds.

The unit destroyed the cache by controlled detonation on-site.

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