Fort Bragg Soldiers Confined In Search For Missing Item

POSTED: 11:27 am EST December 17, 2004

FORT BRAGG, N.C. -- It's described as a "sensitive item," and because no one can find it, about 130 82nd Airborne Division soldiers are being confined in their unit area for a week.

Military officials won't describe the item that's missing until the investigation is complete.

The soldiers are assigned to Company C of the Third Battalion of the 504th Parachute Infantry Regiment. They are scheduled to deploy to Afghanistan for a year this spring.

The Army confines soldiers to their unit areas to find missing items that have to be accounted for at all times, such as weapons or equipment that is expensive or secret. A division spokesman says each unit can determine what equipment is sensitive.

The spokesman says the lockdown is not punishment, but is designed to give investigators a controlled environment.

Family members are complaining that the restriction order has affected their holiday plans to be with the soldiers.
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was anything more ever found out about this?

Anybody ever hear anymore on this?
Dang I know them boys is P.O.ed if they're STILL locked down.

I have not heard anything past the first article and don't know what was lost, but locking down a company isn't a huge deal. I've been on a locked down post while they searched for a butter bar's missing M9.

I posted that story, and no I have not found any more of it. As we (miltypes) know if you are in lock down you stay that way till it is either found and recovered and there will not be to much more said about it.

damn.

and if there isn't anymore news..they have got to be in lockdown still...

i'll take a wild guess at this one..somebody brought home something of historical/archeological/political (either/or/and) significance and it hasn't been found yet.

Amy they are more than likely out of lock down now. If I had to quess what was reported missing then I would guess one of the following, CEOI, protective equipment, weapon(s)or some type of ammunition. But like I said it is my own guss's. I was locked down while in Germany due to the reported loss of a couple of M3A1 machine guns that later turned out to have not been shipped to my warehouse and again when 4 CID camera kits were stolen from the dock at the same warehouse. both times lasted less than 24 hours.