C 395 ENG COMBAT OPNS

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Subject = C 395 ENG  COMBAT OPNS                                          

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Folder Title = REQUEST FOR DECLASS AND UPLOADING OF DOCUMENTS 11 JUL 97                                        

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              DOT 18 '96 14:50 TO-170360IS321  FROH-H.C. BURNETT               T-137 P.ooil2 r-356



       demolitions and demilitarizing enemy equipment, CharUs Company
       moved away from TalUl to observe, from a safe distance, the ear
       shattering explosions of over 40 kilotons  of
       enemy muntuons.
        . Th6- very next day, Charlie Company was
       again ordered into actions Another huge
       cache of ammunition had been found; this one.
       totaling about I 0 kilotons of ammunition.
       Again, the soldiers of C Company met the
       challenge and in less than two days, rigged the
       entire facility for detonation, Early in the morning on 20 March, soldiers
       from C Company watched in awe is the completion of their last combat
       miston in -Iraq was marked with the earth shaking explosion of I 0
       kilotons of =munition being rendered unumble.
       Tha-t@en of C C=pany, 307th Enginw. BattsUon -left.Iraq on 21 March
                                                  .9 1. They felt good about
                                                  themselves bemuse they had
                                                  denied the still enthralled
                                                  dictator Saddam Hussein of a
                                                  great deal of. combat power,
                                                  Items demilitarized by Charne
                                                  Company included over 52
                                                  kilotons of munitions, the
                                                  support faciflues of a major air
                                                  base, over I 00 vehicles, a
                                                  major ==unications node,
                                                  more AAA guns than are
        asved to a br4pde stud air defense unit, countless small arms,
        rodets " shoulder fft-od n-Astos; a HIND helicopter and 23 MIG
        atradt. There was no doubt that ft soldiers, NCOs and officers of C
        Company had    made a steicant =LribuUon toward the war effort.
           The men felt good for another re= as well. Dnpite an the