4th Battalion 42nd Artillery
Straight Arrows Find Weapons Cache
June, 2008
FORWARD
OPERATING BASE FALCON, Iraq – Spc. Dallas Sampey, a combat
medic from Baton Rouge, La.,
assigned to 2nd Platoon, Battery A, 4th Battalion, 42nd Field
Artillery Regiment, attached to the 2nd Brigade Combat Team,
101st Airborne Division, Multi-National Division – Baghdad,
scans across the Tigris River for enemy activity June 3
in the Karkh neighborhood of Baghdad. The “Straight
Arrows” Battalion is part of the 1st Brigade Combat Team,
4th Infantry Division, serving a 15-month deployment in support
of Operation Iraqi Freedom
(U.S. Army photo by Spc. David Hodge, 1st BCT PAO, 4th Inf. Div., MND-B)
FORWARD
OPERATING BASE FALCON, Iraq – From the bottom of the Tigris
River to the shores of the Karkh community,
Soldiers from 2nd Platoon, Battery A, 4th Battalion, 42nd Field
Artillery Regiment, attached to the 2nd Brigade Combat Team,
101st Airborne Division, Multi-National Division – Baghdad,
discovered 340 37 mm high-explosive anti-aircraft rounds
in an underwater cache June 3. A concerned Iraqi citizen
approached the Soldiers of “Strong” Platoon
worried that the explosive material near his home was unstable.
The “Straight Arrows” Battalion is part of
the 1st Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division, serving a
15-month deployment in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom
(U.S. Army photo by Spc. David Hodge, 1st BCT PAO, 4th Inf. Div., MND-B)
FORWARD
OPERATING BASE FALCON, Iraq – Spc. Dallas Sampey, a combat
medic from Baton Rouge, La.,
assigned to 2nd Platoon, Battery A, 4th Battalion, 42nd Field
Artillery Regiment, attached to the 2nd Brigade Combat Team,
101st Airborne Division, Multi-National Division – Baghdad,
bandages a laceration on the foot of an Iraqi citizen June 3
in the Karkh community of Baghdad. The citizen cut his foot while
pulling munitions from an underwater cache in the Tigris River.
The “Straight Arrows” Battalion is part of the 1st
Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division,
serving a 15-month deployment in support of Operation Iraqi
Freedom
(U.S. Army photo by Spc. David Hodge, 1st BCT PAO, 4th Inf. Div., MND-B)
FORWARD
OPERATING BASE FALCON, Iraq – Three Iraqi Policemen haul a
blanket full of 37 mm high-explosive
anti-aircraft rounds up from the bank of the Tigris River June 3
in the Karkh neighborhood of Baghdad.
A concerned Iraqi citizen led Soldiers from 2nd Platoon,
“Strong” Platoon, Battery A, 4th Battalion, 42nd Field
Artillery Regiment,
attached to the 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 101st Airborne Division,
Multi-National Division – Baghdad,
to the underwater cache. The “Straight Arrows”
Battalion is part of the 1st Brigade Combat Team,
4th Infantry Division, serving in support of Operation Iraqi
Freedom.
(U.S. Army photo by Spc. David Hodge, 1st BCT PAO, 4th Inf. Div., MND-B)
FORWARD
OPERATING BASE FALCON, Iraq – 1st Lt. Kevin Smith, 2nd
Platoon Leader from Sacremento, Calif.,
assigned to Battery A, 4th Battalion, 42nd Field Artillery
Regiment, attached to the 2nd Brigade Combat Team,
101st Airborne Division, Multi-National Division – Baghdad,
passes 37 mm high-explosive anti-aircraft munitions
found in the Tigris River up a 70-foot embankment for proper
disposal June 3 in the Karkh neighborhood of Baghdad.
Five local citizens fished 340 rounds from the bottom of the
river in approximately 35 minutes.
Smith and the Soldiers of 2nd Plt., “Strong” Platoon
conduct daily dismounted patrols working with three local Iraqi
Police stations.
The “Straight Arrows” Battalion is part of the 1st
Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division,
serving a 15-month deployment in support of Operation Iraqi
Freedom.
(U.S. Army photo by Spc. David Hodge, 1st BCT PAO, 4th Inf. Div., MND-B)
FORWARD OPERATING BASE FALCON, Iraq -
Soldiers from 2nd Platoon, Battery A,
4th Battalion, 42nd Field Artillery Regiment, attached to the 2nd
Brigade Combat Team,
101st Airborne Division, Multi-National Division - Baghdad, form
a human chain
to pass munitions up a Tigris River embankment June 3 in the
Karkh district of Baghdad.
An Iraqi man showed Soldiers from 2nd Plt., "Strong"
Platoon the location of the cache
and produced one of the rounds from the water. The 4th Bn., 42nd
FA Regt.,
"Straight Arrows" Battalion, is part of the 1st Brigade
Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division,
serving a 15-month deployment in support of Operation Iraqi
Freedom.
(U.S. Army photo by Spc. David Hodge, 1st BCT
PAO, 4th Inf. Div., MND-B)
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