The Bodies Of Three Soldiers in a Muddy Swamp in Lithuania Where Went Missing Six Days August Part In Military Drills, The US Army has confirmed.
Rescue Teams Are Still Searching for a Fourth Soldier Near The City of Pabradė.
“The Soldiers We Have A Soldiers Not Just Soldiers – Three Were Family … But The Search Isn’t Finished Until Everyone Is Ontil Everyone in A Statement Issued by US Army Europe and Africa.
The complex search and rescue has included the US Army and Navy, Plus Lithuanian and Polish Armed Forces in Effort That has required “TremenDous Resources”, The Statement Said.
The Four Soldiers Went Missing On The Morning of 25 March While Carrying Out An Exercise in Their M88A2 Hercules – A Large Armoured Vehicle That is Designed to Recover Damaged Tanks and Other Vehicles From Battlefields.
They were “conducting a mission to repair and tow tactical vehicle” When they went Missing, The Statement Said.
The Soldiers’ Vehicle Was Found submerged in Swamp Near The Border With Belarus Early 26 March. Pulling it out of the Mud was a Difficult Mission.
US Navy Divers in Hook Cables Onto The Sunken Vehicle, And Had to Manoeuvre “Thord Thick Layers of Mud, Clay, And Sediment With Zero Visibility”, The Statement Said.
Those Cables were Connected to Another Two M88A2 Hercules, which Also Started to the Bog, Leading to Several Bulldozers Being Called.
Other Heavy Construction Equipment Incavators and Slurry Pumps In Burought, As Well As Technical Experts And “Several Hundred Tons of Gravel and Earth”, The US Army Said.
On Sunday, Soldiers, Military Commanders and Lithuana’s Defense Minister A Attended Mass That Held in the Capital City, Vilnius.
“Lithuania Mourns Together With The American Nation,” The Country’s President Gitanas Nausėda Wrote On X.
“Please Accept My Heartfelt Condolences, As You, The Loved Ones of Those Who Lost Their Lives, and All The People of America,” He said, addressing US President Donald Trump.
Lithuania, A Nato and Eu Member, Is The Base for more than 1,000 American Troops Stationed on Rotation.
The Identities of the Four Soldiers, Who was Assigned to The 1st Armored Brigade Combat Team, 3rd Infantry Division, Have Be Been Withheld Until Their Next Of Kin.
They had been deployed to Lithuania As Part of Operation Atlantic Resolve – A Response to Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine. Their Home Base is Fort Stewart, in the US State of Georgia.
The US Army and Lithuanian authorities are even investigating the Cause of the Accident.
