THE TENSION: Combat Camera: Clearing a Weapons Cache Near Patrol Base Assassin, Iraq

U.S. Army Staff Sgt. Brian Griggs from Troop A, 3rd Battalion,1st Cavalry Regiment, 3rd Heavy Brigade Combat Team, 3rd Infantry Division, arrives at a Concerned Local Citizens checkpoint, after receive word that a small weapons cache was found near the checkpoint just outside of Patrol Base Assassin, Iraq, Feb. 3. (Photographer: Sgt. Timothy Kingston, Joint Combat Camera Center.)

U.S. Army Staff Sgt. Brian Griggs from Troop A, 3rd Battalion,1st Cavalry Regiment, 3rd Heavy Brigade Combat Team, 3rd Infantry Division, follows a Concerned Local Citizen member to the location were a small weapons cache was found buried along a roadside near the CLC checkpoint just outside of Patrol Base Assassin, Iraq, Feb. 3. (Photographer: Sgt. Timothy Kingston, Joint Combat Camera Center.)

U.S. Army Sgt. 1st Class Victor Fontan from the 789th Explosive Ordnance Disposal attached to 3rd Heavy Brigade Combat Team, 3rd Infantry Division, carries a 125 mm high explosive round which was found buried and turned in by Concerned Local Citizen members along a roadside just outside of Patrol Base Assassin, Iraq, Feb. 3. (Photographer: Sgt. Timothy Kingston, Joint Combat Camera Center.)

U.S. Army 1st Lt. John Dickson from Troop A, 3rd Battalion,1st Cavalry Regiment, jokes around with Sgt. 1st Class Victor Fontan, right, from the 789th Explosive Ordnance Disposal attached to 3rd Heavy Brigade Combat Team, 3rd Infantry Division, as he carries a 125 mm high explosive round which was found buried and turned in by Concerned Local Citizen members along a roadside just outside of Patrol Base Assassin, Iraq, Feb. 3.(Photographer: Sgt. Timothy Kingston, Joint Combat Camera Center.)

U.S. Army Sgt. 1st Class Victor Fontan, right, from the 789th Explosive Ordnance Disposal attached to 3rd Heavy Brigade Combat Team, 3rd Infantry Division, carries a 125 mm high explosive round which was found buried and turned in by Concerned Local Citizen members along a roadside just outside of Patrol Base Assassin, Iraq, Feb. 3. (Photographer: Sgt. Timothy Kingston, Joint Combat Camera Center.)

U.S. Army Staff Sgt. Brian Griggs from Troop A, 3rd Battalion,1st Cavalry Regiment, 3rd Heavy Brigade Combat Team, 3rd Infantry Division, carries a 60 mm mortar which was found buried and turned in by Concerned Local Citizen members along a roadside just outside of Patrol Base Assassin, Iraq, Feb. 3. (Photographer: Sgt. Timothy Kingston, Joint Combat Camera Center.)

U.S. Army Sgt. 1st Class Victor Fontan, right, from the 789th Explosive Ordnance Disposal attached to 3rd Heavy Brigade Combat Team, 3rd Infantry Division, load a 125 mm high explosive round and a 60 mm mortar into a Cougar after they were found and turned in by Concerned Local Citizens members along a roadside just outside of Patrol Base Assassin, Iraq, Feb. 3. (Photographer: Sgt. Timothy Kingston, Joint Combat Camera Center.)