The body of the fourth soldier of the US Army was found on Tuesday in Lithuania, a week after the soldier and three others were announced when an armored vehicle was running in the swamp, the US Army said.
The army immediately did not release the name of the fourth soldier whose body was found the day after three other soldiers were found dead for extensive international search efforts, which included hundreds of Lithuania staff, the United States, Poland and Estonia.
Four American soldiers from the 1st armored brigade team, 3 Infantry Division, were reported that they disappeared early on March, when they did not return from the training mission in the M88A2 Hercules, a 70 -ton vehicle that is basically a huge military car.
They were sent to extract another military vehicle, the army said. However, the soldiers could leave the road and to the deep peat bog, and according to the military official in Europe, they were trapped inside the vehicle sank. The US Army is investigating the cause of the accident.
Rescue staff located the vehicle 26 March, but the extraction of the mud proved to be a skiing engineering challenge. Heavy equipment and divers, dogs and drones were very much brought by the fact that it is equipped with a radar of stretching ground, they were deployed in the effort to recover.
The US Army did not say where the body of the fourth soldier was found. The soldiers trained near Pabrade, the city in Eastern Lithuania near the border with Belarus.
“I can’t say enough about the support that our Lithuanian allies provided us with,” Gen provided. Christopher Donahue, Commander of the US Army of Europe and Africa, said in a statement. “We leaned on them and they, besides our Polish and Estonian allies – and our own sailors, airmen and experts from the engineers’ choir – allowed us to find and bring our soldiers home.”
Lithuanian leaders pointed to international recovery efforts to emphasize the value of NATO allies who cooperate in a growing alarm in Lithuania and other Baltic countries that President Trump is weakening the NATO Alliance.
On Tuesday, President Gitanas Naused of Lithuania, who visited the accident site, said “sincere condolences to our American allies and their people”.
“Lithuania prayed for all four missing soldiers and now, from all of our hearts, we stand with their families,” he said on social media. “We are deeply grateful to anyone who has devoted immense efforts to finding the remaining soldier still missing under such demanding conditions.”
