Search for Missing US Soldiers in Lithuania Continues as Crews Work to Extract Vehicle - The New York Times
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Via: jbb • 5 days ago • 6 commentsBy: Andrew Higgins and Tomas Dapkus (nytimes)
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The search in dense, muddy swampland came after the U.S. Army vehicle disappeared in a waterlogged area on Tuesday.
Recovery efforts continued on Friday for four missing U.S. soldiers who were training near Pabrade, a city in eastern Lithuania near the border with Belarus.Credit...Mindaugas Kulbis/Associated Press
By Andrew Higgins and Tomas Dapkus
March 28, 2025
The president of Lithuania on Friday visited swampland near his country's border with Belarus, saying he was "hoping for a miracle" as rescue crews worked frantically to extract a heavy United States Army vehicle carrying four American soldiers that disappeared in the waterlogged forest.
The American vehicle, an M88 Hercules, went missing during a military training exercise and was found on Wednesday submerged in a muddy bog. The soldiers have not been found, and efforts to reach the vehicle have been hampered by deep mud and water from a nearby lake.
A Lithuanian official involved in the rescue mission who was not authorized to speak publicly about the matter said tracks in the ground indicated that the American vehicle had veered off a sandy path toward a small pond and then turned abruptly into a wooded area that ended up being a swamp. It seemed to have sunk quickly, the person said, but it was unclear what happened to the crew.
"Although many skeptics would probably say that there is nothing to hope for in these circumstances, I want to hope," President Gitanas Nauseda of Lithuania said during a visit to the site on Friday. "I am still hoping for a miracle," he added.
The missing soldiers, from the First Brigade, Third Infantry Division, were training near Pabrade, a city in eastern Lithuania near the border with Belarus, a close ally of Russia and a stalwart supporter of Moscow's war in Ukraine.
ImageThe U.S. ambassador to Lithuania, Kara C. McDonald, speaking to the news media next to Lithuania's president, Gitanas Nauseda, at the site of a rescue operation on Friday.Credit...Janis Laizans/Reuters
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Has Trump been briefed yet? Does anyone in his White House care?
Only hours after it occurred?
Brandon's Secretary of Defense disappeared for weeks and he wasn't the wiser for it.
Get back to us when you clean up your own damn party's people who are unfit to serve.
Funny meme of a hysterical progressive overreaction. Thanks.
Trump said he is unaware they were missing.
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