Posted on: Monday, May 24, 2004

Hawai'i troops find, destroy munitions in Iraq

Advertiser Staff

Hawai'i soldiers from the 65th Engineer Battalion recovered several caches of munitions near the Tal Ashtal airfield south of Kirkuk on Saturday at about 3 p.m., military officials in Iraq said yesterday.

The soldiers found more than 50 mortar, artillery and anti-aircraft rounds, six mortar fuses and two rocket-propelled grenades. Artillery rounds are commonly used by insurgents to build bombs.

The soldiers destroyed the caches.