Nine Miles - Army Confines 100 Soldiers To Base Over Missing Equipment

Jan 8 (Reuters) - About 100 U.S. Army troopers are usually restricted into a Washington assert base once government bodies learned in which optics tools is missing, some sort of bottom spokesman explained with Sunday.

The infantry unit at Joint Base Lewis-McChord was located with lockdown Wednesday following a apparatus was observed missing from the supply area, claimed Major Chris Ophardt, some sort of spokesman for the U.S. Army's I Corps at the base. The apparatus involved weapon points of interest in addition to targeting lasers.

"There are numerous objects missing," Ophardt said, including which the gear has been "definitely stolen." He stated absolutely no items are missing, and there is no hazard for the public.

The base is situated concerning eleven miles southern region with Tacoma.

Lockdown usually means your militia tend to be limited to the barracks and also business areas of your unit, so that they won't be able to proceed dwelling whenever they have families outside involving barracks. On Saturday, lockdown was changed in order to restriction, which often means the soldiers' individuals might visit them, Ophardt said.

A arrest exploration have been launched, plus a $10,000 pay back offered.

The component may be home from Iraq given that September 2010. (Reporting by Mary Wisniewski; Editing simply by Colleen Jenkins)