Three U.S. Army soldiers were found dead on Monday, and the search for a fourth is ongoing after their vehicle sank in a peat bog during a training exercise in Lithuania last week.
Four soldiers assigned to the 1st Armored Brigade Combat Team, 3rd Infantry Division, went missing “in the early morning hours” last Tuesday while driving an M88A2 Hercules armored recovery vehicle during a training mission. They were on a mission to repair and tow an immobilized tactical vehicle, according to a statement from U.S. Army Europe and Africa. The identities of the three deceased soldiers are being withheld until their families are notified as “search and recovery operations continue for the remaining fourth Soldier.”
U.S. Navy divers found the armored vehicle “four meters below the water’s surface and encased in about two meters of mud.” The recovery effort lasted six days and…
