Multi-National Force - Iraq - Citizen’s Tip Leads to Explosively-Formed Penetrator Weapons Cache

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Citizen’s Tip Leads to Explosively-Formed Penetrator Weapons Cache

Monday, 11 February 2008

3rd HBCT Public Affairs

Material seized by Soldiers from Troop C, 3rd Squadron, 1st Cavalry Regiment, in Jurf Nadaf, a town southeast of Baghdad, Feb. 8. Thirteen EFPs and 37 blocks of C4 explosive were in the cache. Photo courtesy of 3rd Squadron, 1st Cavalry Regiment.

FORWARD OPERATING BASE HAMMER — Soldiers from Troop C, 3rd Squadron, 1st Cavalry Regiment, seized an explosively-formed penetrator (EFP) cache in Jurf Nadaf, a town southeast of Baghdad, due to a tip from a ‘Sons of Iraq’ member, Feb. 8.

The ‘Sons of Iraq’ are a splinter group of the highly successful Concerned Local Citizens (CLC) program taking root throughout Iraq. The CLC are help to quell the insurgency by pointing out weapons cache locations as well as those intent on harming Coalition and Iraqi forces, and innocent Iraqi civilians.

This find consisted of 13 EFPs, one shape charge, 37 blocks of C4 explosive, 13 blasting caps, one 62 mm mortar tube and one 40 mm rocket-propelled grenade launcher.

The 3-1 Cav. Regt. is assigned to the 3rd Heavy Brigade Combat Team, 3rd Infantry Division from Fort Benning, Ga. and has been deployed in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom since March, 2007.