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

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
RELEASE No. 20080521-21
May 21, 2008

Tip leads MND-C Soldiers to huge cache
Multi-National Division – Center PAO

CAMP VICTORY, Iraq – A local sheik, informed by a Sons of Iraq member, gave a tip to Coalition forces, leading them to a huge munitions cache approximately 13 kilometers south of Baghdad May 21.

Soldiers from 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault), retrieved the cache containing 268, 57 mm mortar rounds; two, 82 mm mortars and four, 107 mm rocket casings.

None of the rounds were serviceable, but they could have been alternately used as improvised explosive devices.

The munitions were turned over to Iraqi Army personnel at a nearby compound.

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