From MNF-I, MND-C Soldiers conduct air assault, destroy weapons cache.
BAGHDAD – Multi-National Division – Center soldiers from 1st Battalion, 15th Infantry Regiment, conducted an air assault mission near al-Lej to gain additional information on terrorist activity near the town, southeast of Baghdad, March 24.
Soldiers secured four buildings, finding two buried refrigerators and one large hole that may have been used by terrorists to store munitions. Company leadership directed attack aviation helicopters from 1st Battalion, 3rd Aviation Regiment, Combat Aviation Brigade, 3rd Infantry Division, to a possible cache site that could not be safely cleared by soldiers on the ground. Aviators then engaged and destroyed the potential cache site with no injuries to Coalition forces or civilians.
In the search, soldiers discovered Sunni terrorist training literature containing depictions of Coalition force vehicles and aircraft.
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