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US Marine divers. They have successfully attached two lines to raise the points in a armored recovery vehicle M88 Holcados that transported four soldiers of the US Army. UU. Which disappeared early Tuesday during a training exercise near Pabradė, Lithuania.
The soldiers, based in Fort Stewart in GeorgiaThey were traveling in the vehicle in a programmed maintenance mission to recover another US army vehicle in the training area when they disappeared.
After the second line joined a polypest point in the Hercules on Sunday, the army said the vehicle could be anchored to prevent it from sinking more into the swamp where it was.
“Engineers hope to start caressing early this morning,” The US Army. Uu. Europe and Africa He said in a publication on X. “It is projected that the process takes a significant amount of time and effort, since the land surrounding the peat swamp is still challenging, but rescue workers will not be dissuaded.”
The teams continue to seek the lack of Hercules team that disappeared in Lithuania. (US Army)
Early in the day, the divers had chained the first line to a polypest point in the Hercules, although Winching efforts were expected to take longer than expected with both united lines due to the amount of pressure and suction of the mud, the army said.
United States Army Operations for Europe And Africa said in a press release that the Hercules had continued to sink into the swamp. It was estimated that the vehicle was about four meters below the surface of the water and is locked in approximately two meters of mud.
To help with excavation and pumping operations, the quickly available interface was expected for the Trans Load System (Riel) to reach the scene later in the day.
A US recovery land vehicle. UU. It is closer to being recovered from a peat swamp in Lithuania, after the US Marine divers attached two lines to raise the points in the vehicle on Sunday. (US Army)
The rail system is traditionally used to help rail and load rail networks in challenging land, although engineers believed that it could help stabilize the land around the recovery site.
“It is very complex to try to reach the vehicle itself with the terrain here and where the M88 is sitting in a swamp area like a swamp, under the flotation line. Therefore, we are not only dealing with the land, a lot of mud that is on the top of the vehicle, but also the fact that there are 70 tons that we are trying to recover from a swamp or swamp,” Brig. General John Lloyd, commander of the US Army Engineers. UU. Division of the North Atlantic of the Atlantic.
In an interview with Fox News Digital on Thursday afternoon, the Lithuanian Defense Minister, Dovilė Šakalienė, said from the moment the country learned of the incident, had “given everything” that has, both of its institutions of the Ministry of Armed Forces and internal affairs, to find the soldiers.
US Army. M88 Hercules armored vehicle March 27 near Pabradė, Lithuania. The Lithuanians from the entire national and local government of the country have helped the soldiers of the US Army. In the search for four missing American soldiers of the first brigade, the third infantry division and the subsequent recovery efforts of their armored vehicle M88 Hercules found on March 26 submerged near the last known location of the soldiers. (Lithuanian Armed Forces)
“From helicopters with thermal vision to forces on the ground, we continue very intensely,” said Šakalien.
Šakalienė said it is unknown if the soldiers could have escaped from the vehicle before sinking, but reiterated that “there was no evidence” that confirmed the death of the disappeared soldiers from Thursday afternoon.
The area surrounding the site is a wooded area with swamps and swamps, similar to an environment that is located in Alaska. Climate conditions are also similar, which makes it a challenging training area for army personnel.
“Maybe they were lost, confused, wounded or in hypothermic conditions, and we haven’t found them yet,” said Šakalien. “But we are not losing hope until the last moment. These are strong soldiers, strong men and adults. All scenarios are possible.”
Find ‘ongoing’ for 4 American soldiers missing in the training area in Lithuania: NATO
The military and application personnel of the Lithuanian Law observe the recovery efforts when an excavator collects the soil for a berma on March 26 near Pabradė, Lithuania. The Lithuanians from the entire national and local government of the country have helped the soldiers of the US Army. In the search for four missing American soldiers of the first brigade, the third infantry division and the recovery efforts of their armored vehicle M88 Hercules found on March 26 submerged near the last known location of the soldiers. (Lithuanian Armed Forces)
She added Lithuania, a NATO member, Consider US soldiers their own and will not leave them behind.
Despite continuous efforts, soldiers have not yet been located.
The Third Infantry Division of the US Army.
“This tragic situation weighs all of us, and we keep the families, friends and teammates of our team of soldiers and recovery in our thoughts and prayers,” wrote last week, wrote the greatest general of the United States Army Army, the general domain of the 1st armored division. “We want everyone to know that we do not stop until they are at our soldiers.”
President Donald Trump They told the journalists on Wednesday that he had not been informed about the missing soldiers.
The training site is less than 6 miles from Belarus, a Russian ally since its independence from the Soviet Union in 1990.
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Lithuania, a Catholic country, organized a joint prayer on Sunday in its main church, the Capital Cathedral, and organized a mass for the missing soldiers.
Alexandra Koch and Landon Mion of Fox News Digital contributed to this report.
