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CAMP TAJI, Iraq – Cache search operations in the Taji Qada is an ongoing effort. This area, northwest of Baghdad, is dotted with occasional houses, farms, growing businesses, and vast amounts of barren land travelled by goat herders and the occasional terrorist.
It is those terrorists who bury caches that the Soldiers of Company B, 52nd Infantry Regiment, attached to 1st Battalion, 27th Infantry Regiment "Wolfhounds," 2nd Stryker Brigade Combat Team "Warrior," 25th Infantry Division, Multi-National Division – Baghdad, are working diligently to protect the local citizens against.
Operation Hammer Bonzai XI, conducted on July 22, focused on the tedious task of systematically clearing and either recovering or destroying weapons caches buried in the Taji Qada countryside using metal detectors and shovels.
"We have a high cache search rate in order to take weapons from (terrorist groups). It's about patience and dedication to the people of Iraq. We are more like them than we are different," said Capt. Darell Tran, a Brideport, Conn., native, and commander, Co. B, 52nd Inf. Regt.
A large cache consisting of ammunition, explosives, rockets, and improvised explosive device making materials was found.
"This shows that we are still needed here. There is less of a threat now, but all the weapons we find is evidence that there is still work to be done," said Spc. Thomas Bateman, a Fairborn, Ohio, native, and a combat medic assigned to Company A, 1st Bn., 27th Inf. Regt.
Tran said his Soldiers are using a multi-lateral approach to bring security to the area. The cache searches are used in conjunction with rebuilding of roads, schools, businesses, and building trust from the residents of the Taji Qada.
"We want to show them we are friends, cousins; whom we want to learn about, their culture, and their ways and get to know them," he said.
| Date Taken: | 07.26.2008 |
| Date Posted: | 07.26.2008 23:38 |
| Story ID: | 21871 |
| Location: | TAJI, IQ |
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