News Update from IRAQ

July 24_2, 2005 - IT IS FINALLY RELEASED, BUT NOT WHAT I EXPECTED
I WOULD HAVE THOUGHT THEY WOULD HAVE WRITTEN MORE ABOUT THIS, BUT OVER 100 INSURGENTS IN ONE SINGLE MISSION WASN'T THAT BAD WOULD YOU SAY? THE MOST THAT HAS BEEN TAKEN IN ANY ONE DAY IN A LONG TIME AND THE BOYS FROM MISSISSIPPI DID IT. I CAN'T GO INTO ANY MORE DETAIL THAT WHAT WAS RELEASED, BUT THIS WILL HAVE TO DO.
U.S. Soldiers capture insurgents, weapons and explosives

Blackanthem.com, FORWARD OPERATING BASE KALSU, Iraq, July 24, 2005

U.S. Soldiers captured over 100 insurgents as well as weapons and explosives during a recent operation in the vicinity of Owesat.

Items seized and subsequently destroyed include:
(173) 60mm mortar rounds
(13) 120mm mortar rounds
(3) 122mm artillery rounds
(13) rocket propelled grenades
(2) rocket propelled grenade launchers
(65) hand grenades
(8) cans of small arms ammunition
(500) lbs of explosives
(4) mortar sights
(2) sniper rifle scopes

The Soldiers are from the 150th Engineer Battalion, 155th Brigade Combat Team. The 155th BCT is a U.S. Army unit assigned to the II Marine Expeditionary Force (Fwd) in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom.

By MAJ Erby Montgomery, public affairs officer, 155th Brigade Combat Team