Scouts Recover Weapons Cache in Narwhan

Scouts from Troop B, 3rd Squadron,1st Cavalry Regiment, currently attached to 1st Battalion, 10th Field Artillery, search for an insurgent cache behind a high-value target’s house in Narhwan, Jan. 25. Two days earlier, Troop B arrested the individual who was wanted for smuggling weapons through Narhwan.

Weapons from a cache found by scouts from Troop B, 3rd Squadron, 1st Cavalry Regiment, currently attached to 1st Battalion, 10th Field Artillery, behind a high-value target’s house in Narhwan, Jan. 25. Two days earlier, Troop B arrested the individual who was wanted for smuggling weapons through Narhwan.

By Spc. Ben Hutto
3rd Brigade Combat Team Public Affairs

FORWARD OPERATING BASE HAMMER, Iraq – Scouts from Troop B, 3rd Squadron, 1st Cavalry Regiment uncovered a large cache near the home of a recently captured high-value target in Narhwan, Jan. 25.

Troop B, currently attached to the 1st Battalion, 10th Field Artillery, apprehended the high-value target two days earlier in a night-time raid. The individual was wanted for allegedly smuggling large amounts of weapons and ammunition through Narhwan.

“The suspect was connected to attacks on coalition forces and local citizens,” said Capt. Jared Albright, from Lancaster, Pa., commander of Troop B. “He has also bragged about having a sniper rifle and threatened local citizens with it.”

The cache was found buried in a black casket behind the home of the arrested suspect.

The cache contained eight rocket propelled grenades, 20 OG rounds, 30 RPG expellant charges, three RPG launchers, a tactical vest, three AK-47 magazines, 5,200 rounds of small arms ammunition and one PKC machine gun.

Soldiers from the 789th Ordnance Company (Explosive Ordnance Disposal), from Ft. Benning, Ga., recovered the enemy cache and transported it back to Forward Operating Base Hammer for analysis.

“It is great to finally put our hands on these weapons,” Albright said. “We have been working hard to get them and the insurgents in this area. We know that they are out there and feel it’s just a matter of time before we get them all. Getting these weapons out of insurgents’ hands and off the street has been a huge relief to the local community. Many have said they feel safer now that he is behind bars.”

The 1-10 FA and 3-1 Cav. Regt. are assigned to the 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 3rd Infantry Division, from Fort Benning, Ga., and have been deployed in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom since March, 2007.