Fayetteville (N.C.) Observer August 15, 2002 Bragg Ends Confinement Of Soldiers By Henry Cuningham, Staff writer Fort Bragg has released hundreds of soldiers who had been forbidden to go home because of a missing piece of equipment. The 82nd Airborne Division soldiers were released at 6:30 a.m. Wednesday because the commanders decided to turn the search into a criminal investigation, a spokesman said. Officials will not say what is missing, only that it is a "sensitive item." "We have searched everywhere the sensitive item could be," said Maj. Rich Patterson, a spokesman for the division. "Once that search is exhausted,...