IRAQI ARMY COORDINATES FOR AIR SUPPORT TO KILL TERRORISTS NEAR BALAD
TIKRIT, Iraq – Iraqi Army soldiers from 1st Battalion, 5th Iraqi Army Division, with support from Soldiers from 1st Battalion, 82nd Field Artillery Regiment, 1st Cavalry Division, called in an air strike on a house harboring eight terrorists after receiving small-arms fire from the house Thursday while they were on patrol east of Balad.
Coalition Forces called for air support after small-arms fire from the house wounded three Iraqi soldiers.
After receiving clearance, an F-15E dropped a guided bomb on the house, partially demolishing it. However, IA continued to receive small-arms fire. Terrorists were observed going into the house. An air weapons team was called to assist ground forces.
Terrorists engaged the IA and CF Soldiers from a second house. Ground forces engaged the second house killing eight terrorists.
The Iraqi soldiers secured the site after the house had been destroyed, discovering the bodies of the eight terrorists with AK47 semi-automatic machine guns. |