“This was our biggest find to date,” said 1st Lt. Antonio Agnone, the combat engineer platoon leader for BLT 1/2. “We’ve uncovered numerous, and significant caches the insurgents have hidden in Hit in places where they thought they would have easy access to them.”
Agnone and his Marines unearthed nearly 500 rockets and artillery and mortar rounds, along with approx. 100 tank rounds and substantial quantities of rocket propellant, fuzes, and blasting caps. Such supplies are the components insurgents commonly use to make improvised explosive devices (IEDs), two of which were also found. Also discovered was a stockpile of assault rifles and ammunition of various caliber.
According to Agnone, what amazed many of his Marines was the lengths the insurgents would go to hide the caches, going so far as to defile a local cemetery.
Acting on a tip, the Marines carefully searched the cemetery and found caches in grave spots adorned with both head and foot markers.
And the locals are fighting al Qaeda.
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