January 26, 2007

Marines Find and Destroy IEDs, Caches


Story and photo by Cpl. Michael S. Cifuentes
Regimental Combat Team 2

AL ANBAR PROVINCE — U.S. Marines here recently spent nearly three weeks seeking and finding significant traces of insurgent activity in a stretch of 40 km. along the Euphrates River Valley.

Task Force 3rd Battalion, 4th Marine Regiment, a Twentynine Palms, Calif.,-based battalion, launched an 18-day battalion-level operation Dec. 29, 2006, in an effort to disrupt insurgent activity along the Euphrates River Valley in the eastern region of the battalion’s area of combat operations, several miles east of the Iraq-Syria border.

The battalion successfully completed the operation Jan 15, 2006. As a result, roughly 15 weapons and munitions caches were discovered and later destroyed by Explosive Ordnance Disposal Marines from the task force. Nine improvised explosive devices were also found and later rendered safe by EOD technicians during the operation.
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(Photo: Cpl. Lewis G. Richards IV looks into a possible weapons or munitions cache as Lance Cpl. Brandon M. Barnes provides security in Haffah.)

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