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

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
RELEASE No. 20071018-10
October 18, 2007

Spartans find EFP cache

Multi-National Division – Center PAO

By Sgt. J.H. French, 4th Brigade Combat Team (Airborne), 25th Infantry Division

KALSU, Iraq – Soldiers discovered a large explosively formed projectile cache in North Babil Oct. 17.

Soldiers from Company A, 2nd Battalion, 69th Armored Regiment, attached to the 4th Brigade Combat Team (Airborne), 25th Infantry Division, discovered more than 100 copper disks used to construct deadly EFPs east of Haswah during a follow-on mission to Operation Seven Mountains.

“This is a great find. It feels awesome to know that these EFPs will never see the streets,” said Staff Sgt. Joseph Lagas, a squad leader from Macedon, N.Y. “It actually feels like we’re making a difference when we capture this much stuff.”

During Operation Seven Mountains, the Soldiers captured a militant suspected of constructing and planting EFPs in North Babil Oct. 16.

They also discovered EFPs, homemade explosives, and blocks of C4 hidden in a drainage ditch and canal.

The two caches combined are one of the largest EFP caches discovered in North Babil in more than a year.

EFPs are a particularly deadly type of roadside bomb used by Shia extremist groups.

2-69th Armored Regt. Is part of the 3rd Heavy Brigade Combat Team, 3rd Infantry Division, out of Ft. Benning, Ga.

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