FORT CARSON — Despite a wild report on a website dedicated to conspiracy theories, local soldiers haven’t lost a low-yield nuclear weapon.
As the lockdown of soldiers in a Fort Carson battalion dragged into its fifth day Monday, the site reported that a nuclear artillery shell was missing. But that item hasn’t been in the Army inventory for 22 years. That story was translated into several languages, including Russian, and spread rapidly on the Internet.
Sources at the post told The Gazette that the lockdown involving 100 soldiers from the 1st Battalion of the 66th Armor Regiment is actually for something more mundane: a 9mm pistol. The Army hasn’t released details on what spurred the lockdown and search, calling it “missing government property.”
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