I-15 Infantry Finds Bomb Making Materials

Multi-National Division - Center
Media Release
HQ, MND-Center
Baghdad, Iraq

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

1-15 Infantry Finds Bomb Making Materials
By Sgt. Natalie Rostek
3rd HBCT Public Affairs

FORWARD OPERATING BASE HAMMER, Iraq – Soldiers of Company A, 1st Battalion, 15th Infantry Regiment, 3rd Heavy Brigade Combat Team found a weapons cache Monday north of Salman Pak.

The unit located two barrels dug into the ground. One barrel contained various bomb making materials and weapons including one mortar, eight projectiles, a battery, two sticks of dynamite, a roll of crush wire, and detonation cord.

A bomb disposal unit destroyed the cache.