1-15 Finds Weapons

Soldiers of 1st Battalion, 15th Infantry Regiment confi scate weapons July 6 from a cache near Wahida, Iraq. Below, Soldiers from Company A, 97th Civil Affairs Battalion, attached to 1-15th Infantry, prepare to enter a suspected insurgent safe house.

SGT. NATALIE ROSTEK
3RD HBCT, 3RD INF. DIV. PAO
FOB HAMMER — Members of Company C, 1st Battalion, 15th Infantry Regiment and supporting elements conducted a patrol which uncovered a cache on July 6, near Wahida.

The unit searched two houses based on information from a local Iraqi that claimed the houses contained weapons caches. Inside the first house, Soldiers from Company C found eight rounds of ammunition, one Iraqi army uniform, two sets of body armor and two AK-47 rifl es. Soldiers also found paraphernalia associated with the Jaysh al-Mahdi, “mahdi Army.”

In the second house, Soldiers found one rocket propelled grenade,two charges, four anti-personnel rockets, two AK-47 rifl es, eight full magazines, six empty magazines and two grenades.

The 1-15 Inf. is assigned to the 3rd Heavy Brigade Combat Team, 3rd Infantry Division, from Fort Benning,Ga.