ING, IP and Soldiers Find Weapons Cache in Junkyard
Sadar City, Iraq -- The mission started with a local Iraqi who was concerned for the safety of his family and his neighbors and finished with the combined effort of the Iraqi Police, Iraqi National Guardsmen of the 306th Battalion and Multi-National Forces, discovering a weapons cache in an unlikely place, a junkyard.
The Iraqi Police acted on information given to them from a local Iraqi national. The concerned citizen stated that there could possibly be an improvised explosive device in the street near the junkyard on the outskirts of Sadr City. The Iraqi Security Forces reacted to the information from the police and together they met at the possible IED site near the junkyard on Dec. 15.
Staff Sgt. Lance Kirkham, 31, of Seguin, Texas was on site.
"We realized as soon as we arrived the police had already cordoned off the area and found the IED," he said.
When the Iraqi Police found the IED, they began to search nearby areas with the ING and two platoons from Warrior Company of Task Force 2-5 Cavalry. They found a cache in a nearby junkyard.
"Without the Iraqi Police and ING we would not have been able to identify all of the hidden weapon locations in the junkyard," Sgt. 1st Class Clifford Owens, 31, of Odessa, Texas said.
The group found four AK-47 rifles, a rocket-propelled-grenade launcher, 18 mortars, three bundles of TNT, five already made IEDs, three sets of body armor, 200 charging fuses and a rocket.
"The more weapon caches we find the better security we can provide for the people of Sadr City," Owens said. (Story by By 1st Lt. David Swanson, 2nd Battalion, 5th Cavalry Regiment Public Affairs)
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