AR RAMADI, Iraq (April 26, 2005) - Private First Class Brandon H. Griffin,(left) Sgt. Miguel A. Cira(center) and Staff Sgt. Ray A. Valdez, combat engineers with 4th Platoon, Company A, 1st Combat Engineer Battalion, apply C-4 plosives on a pile illegal weapons they and other Marines with their platoon discovered buried on farmland on the southern outskirts of the city here. The engineers found 15 AK-47s; 12 bolt action rifles; three RPK machine guns; three rocket propelled grenade launchers; 200 60 mm shells, 100 82 mm shells; 20 120 mm shells; 10 155 mm shells; 40 pounds of P-C4 explosives; 30 hand grenades and 50 52 mm high explosive anti-tank missiles during their mission that had them trudging through the fields for more than 16 hours. The blast masters destroyed the weapons caches with controlled detonations so insurgents can no longer use them against coalition forces. Photo by Cpl. Tom Sloan