4th Brigade Combat Team



IA, MND-B Soldiers Seize Weapons Cache
Multi-National Corps - Iraq
Press Release
Public Affairs Office, Camp Victory

FOB LOYALTY, Iraq, August 2, 2006 - Soldiers of 1st Battalion, 2nd Brigade, 6th Iraqi Army Division, and Multi-National Division - Baghdad Soldiers from Battery B, 4th Battalion, 320th Field Artillery Regiment, 4th Brigade Combat Team, 101st Airborne Division, located a munitions cache during a combined patrol in east Baghdad Monday.

A tip from an Iraqi citizen led the patrol to a location where they discovered 18 60mm mortar rounds in two separate ammunition boxes; the rounds had fuses already installed.

It took the MND-B soldiers less than 15 minutes from the time the tip was called in to locate the cache. The ordnance was collected and removed to a secured location in less than an hour.




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