Operation Bone Breaker
Nice find by the Iraqi Army
The 5th Iraqi Army Division and Coalition Forces conducted Operation Bone Breaker in southeast Baqouba, capturing one large weapons cache containing assorted weapons and ammunition, as well as two smaller caches containing home-made explosives Oct. 15.
The larger weapons cache, found on a peninsula near the Diyala River known to local Iraqi citizens as “the Bone,” contained 20 propane tanks, 34 blasting caps, 500 feet of detonation cord, 21 assorted demolition charges, an 82mm mortar with equipment, three rocket-propelled grenade launchers with rockets and various small-arms ammunition.
The mission was planned by 4th Battalion, 2nd Brigade, 5th IA Division, and executed jointly with 1st Battalion, 38th Infantry Regiment and 4th Stryker Brigade Combat Team.
“This was a great mission, planned and executed with our partners from the 4-2-5 IA. It could not have been possible without the initiative of the IA,” said Maj. Matt Moore, operations officer, 1-38 Inf. Regt.
Two smaller caches were also found which contained a total of 35 pounds of home-made explosives potentially used to build IEDs.
The operation involved more than 450 IA and CF soldiers, who conducted the operation with no casualties reported.
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