National Police Deliver Cache To Cavalry Unit (Tameem)

By Staff Sgt. Sean Riley, 3rd HBCT, 3rd Inf. Div.

Multi-National Division – Center PAO

FORWARD OPERATING BASE HAMMER, Iraq – Iraqi National Police responded to a tip that resulted in the seizure of a large cache of munitions near the city of Tameem, Iraq, Dec. 25.

The cache consisted of 20 projectile fuses, ten 60mm mortars, eight 122mm artillery shells, eight 82mm mortars and other unidentifiable explosives

The NP delivered the cache to a location in Jisr Diyala to elements of 3rd Squadron, 1st Cavalry Regiment, 3rd Heavy Brigade Combat Team, along with explosive ordnance disposal specialists from the 789th Ordnance Company from Fort Benning, Ga.

The EOD unit assessed the cached items as being severely degraded, but could have been used to construct improvised explosive devices.

The 3-1 Cav. Regt., and 789th Ordnance Co. (EOD), are assigned to the 3rd HBCT, 3rd Infantry Division, Fort Benning, Ga., and have been deployed in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom since March 2007.

Iraqi National Police collect munitions from a cache discovered Dec. 25 near the city of Tameem, Iraq.

The NP delivered the unusable, but still deadly, cache to the 3rd Squadron, 1st Cavalry Regiment, 3rd Heavy Brigade Combat Team to be catalogued and destroyed.

Policemen with the Iraqi National Police display collected munitions after a tip led to the discovery of an old cache near the city of Tameem, Iraq, Dec. 25.

The NP delivered the unusable, but still deadly, cache to the 3rd Squadron, 1st Cavalry Regiment, 3rd Heavy Brigade Combat Team to be catalogued and destroyed.