Army identifies 4th soldier killed in Lithuania
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"Although we are relieved to have found all our Dogface Soldiers, it does not make the pain of their loss any less," Maj. Gen. Christopher Norrie, 3rd Infantry Division commander, said in a statement...
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A fourth U.S. Army soldier, who together with three others went missing in Lithuania last week when their vehicle sank in a peat bog, has been found dead, U.S. and Lithuanian officials said on Tuesda...
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The soldiers disappeared on March 25 in their M88A2 Hercules armored recovery vehicle while conducting a mission to repair and tow an immobilized tactical vehicle in the town of PabradÄ—, Lithuania.
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A Michigan man was killed during a training accident in Lithuania, the U.S. Army said while confirming his identity on Wednesday, April 2.
The U.S. soldiers had been at the center of a recovery mission in Lithuania for nearly a week after their armored vehicle sank near the country's border with Belarus.
The fourth and final missing U.S. soldier whose armored vehicle sank in a swamp in Lithuania last week was found deceased Tuesday, military officials say.
The soldier and three others had gone on a training mission in a 70-ton vehicle that sank in a bog near the border with Belarus.
Fourth U.S. Army soldier who went missing in Lithuania last week during a training exercise has been found dead.
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Staff Sgt. Troy S. Knutson-Collins, 28, was the final soldier recovered from an M88A2 Hercules recovery vehicle that sank in a Lithuanian swamp on March 25. Hundreds of U.S. and Lithuanian soldiers, sailors and civilians worked around the clock to retrieve the four missing in the crash.
The four soldiers disappeared during a training exercise last week when their armored vehicle became submerged in a peat bog.