Coalition Forces Destroy Suspected Insurgent Training Site

MULTI-NATIONAL DIVISION – NORTH
Release Number: 07-01-02PA

TIKRIT, Iraq – Iraqi Army and Coalition Forces Soldiers found and destroyed a suspected insurgent training site with explosives during a security patrol northwest of Samarra, Jan. 27.

Soldiers from Company D, 2nd Battalion, 505th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 82nd Airborne Division, and IA soldiers found 20 rocket-propelled grenade launchers, one 82 mm mortar tube with a base plate, four 60 mm mortar tubes with base plates, a car battery and more than 7,000 large caliber machine gun rounds at the site.

An explosive ordnance disposal team destroyed the discovered weapons and the buildings. The mission was in response to a report of a suspicious area seen by air crew members as they flew missions over the area.