(FRIENDLY ACTION) CACHE FOUND/CLEARED RPT /// : %%% INJ/DAM

**USF REPORTED**\012**USF CONFIRMED**\012\012MND-%%% EVENT: %%%\012UNIT: -%%% IN, /%%% SBCT\012\012WHO: ///%%%\012\012EVENT TYPE: CACHE \012\012WHEN: 010950NOV09\012\012WHERE: %%%\012\012CLOSEST ISF/SOI CP(%%%): SOI\012CP NUMBER: BLUES %%% \012ISF/SOI UNIT: SOI\012GRID LOCATION: %%%\012DISTANCE AND DIRECTION FROM CACHE SITE: .%%% KM TO SW\012\012\012EOD ASSESSMENT:\012NONE\012\012SUMMARY:\012%%% NOV %%%, ACTING ON AN INFORMANTS TIP %%%/A/-%%% AND ///%%% MOVED TO A POSSIBLE CACHE SITE AT MC %%%. AT 011011NOV09 PATROL ARRIVED ON SITE. IA HAD THE %%% COME OUT OF THE HATCH TO CONFIRM THE LOCATION WAS CORRECT. HE POSITIVELY IDENTIFIED THE LOCATION. .%%%. AND IRAQI FORCES DISMOUNTED AND MOVED %%% TO THE POSSIBLE CACHE SITE. WHILE CLEARING THE REMAINING RUBBLE OF WHAT USED TO BE THE HOUSE %%% SQUAD MOVED TO PALM TREES TO THE REAR OF THE LOCATION. WHILE SEARCHING A PILE OF PALM LEAVES WE DISCOVERED THE CACHE. UNITS CONTINUED TO SEARCH THE AREA FOR OTHER POSSIBLE WEAPONS BUT DID NOT FIND ANYTHING. THE MORTAR SYSTEM WAS RUSTED, BUT OIL AND A WIRE BRUSH WHERE FOUND. THEY APPEARED TO BE USED ON THE TUBE. WITH LITTLE EFFORT THE TUBE WOULD MOST LIKELY BE FULLY MISSION CAPABLE IN SHORT TIME. MORTAR TUBE TAKEN BY IA UNIT.\012\012\012S2 ASSESSMENT:\012IT IS ASSESSED THAT THE IDF MATERIALS ARE PASSING THROUGH OE %%%. THIS WAS MOST LIKELY A JAM FSG IDF CACHE IN THE BUILDING. DUE TO THE CACHE HAVING VERY FEW MATERIALS, IT IS ASSESSED THAT IT WAS JUST THE BEGINNING OF AN IDF CACHE, THE INTERRUPTION -%%% WEEKS WHILE THEY SELECT ANOTHER SITE FOR THE CACHE. THEY MAY BELIEVE USF AND ISF WERE TIPPED OFF AND ATTEMPT TO RELOCATE.\012\012BDA: \012%%% X %%% MM MORTAR TUBE\012NO BDA\012\012//CLOSED// %%%\012\012