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North Carolina police search for missing Fort Bragg soldier

By Susan McFarland

March 27 (UPI) -- Police are searching for a missing U.S. Army soldier whose car turned up at a North Carolina shopping center.

Officials said Sgt. Carl Seeman, a paratrooper with the Army's 82nd Airborne Division, was reported missing Sunday by another soldier at Fort Bragg who'd last spoken with him a day earlier.

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Seeman, 25, of New York, has been in the Army since 2011 and with the 82nd Airborne since December 2015. Authorities said his phone was found inside his car at a Walmart in Fayetteville, N.C., 10 miles southeast of Fort Bragg.

"All we know is they found the truck with his possessions in it," grandfather Jim Maloney told WTVD-TV. "That's the last communications that i know of. His telephone and all that was in it."

Maloney said family members:last spoke to him Thursday when he was preparing to travel to Louisiana with his unit for training.

"He's done his part for his country," Maloney said. "And now, I guess we're asking his country for their help to find him."

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