Sather Airmen Destroy Weapons Cache

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Sather Airmen Destroy Weapons Cache
December 23, 2008
Air Force Print News|by SMSgt. Trish Freeland

SATHER AIR BASE, Iraq -- Sather Air Base Airmen destroyed one of the larger enemy weapons caches to be collected at one time in the Iraq theater of operations.

Four three-person 447th Expeditionary Civil Engineer Squadron's Explosive Ordnance Disposal Flight teams destroyed the 13,000-pound weapons cache discovered by Iraqi army members.

"It was a six-day operation and we collected 13,000 pounds in explosive weight," said Airman 1st Class Derrick Torba of the 447th ECES EOD Flight. "My team destroyed 3,000 pounds of that cache. The other three teams destroyed the rest.

"The Iraqi army discovered it," said Airman Torba, deployed from the 99th Civil Engineer Squadron at Nellis Air Force Base, Nev. "There were two rival clans that were turning in each other's explosives and caches."

The Iraqi soldiers notified their American Army counterparts who contacted the Sather AB EOD flight.


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