Monday, January 07, 2008

New Year's Bang

A large explosion of confiscated mortar rounds, grenades, guns and other explosive devices set up by Army explosive ordnance disposal technicians on Contingency Operating Base Q-West, Iraq, Dec. 31. The controlled blast, which contained more than 1,500 pounds of explosives, was set off at midnight as a way to ring in the New Year from Iraq.


White phosphorous ignites and lights up the impact area after a large blast of confiscated mortar rounds, grenades, guns and other explosive devices set up by Army explosive ordnance disposal technicians on Contingency Operating Base Q-West, Iraq, Dec. 31. The controlled blast, which contained more than 1,500 pounds of explosives, was set off at midnight as a way to ring in the New Year from Iraq.

A stack of mortar rounds, grenades, guns and other explosive devices that were confiscated are set up by Army explosive ordnance disposal on Contingency Operating Base Q-West, Iraq, Dec. 31. The controlled blast, which contained more than 1,500 pounds of explosives, was set off at midnight as a way to ring in the New Year from Iraq.


Photos from Spc Eric Rutherford, 115th MPAD
How my friend, Eric, spent his New Year's Eve!

2 comments:

Cajun Tiger said...

They did that all over the country at the different bases. Right at midnight controlled dets went off here on Victory as well. It was pretty cool.

Sarge Charlie said...

this is just another victory