{"id":271548,"date":"2025-04-01T17:00:08","date_gmt":"2025-04-01T17:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/01\/fourth-u-s-soldier-is-found-dead-in-lithuania\/"},"modified":"2025-04-01T17:00:08","modified_gmt":"2025-04-01T17:00:08","slug":"fourth-u-s-soldier-is-found-dead-in-lithuania","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/01\/fourth-u-s-soldier-is-found-dead-in-lithuania\/","title":{"rendered":"Fourth U.S. Soldier Is Found Dead in Lithuania"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The body of a fourth U.S. Army soldier was found on Tuesday in Lithuania, a week after the soldier and three others were reported missing when the armored vehicle they were riding in sank in a bog, the U.S. military said.<\/p>\n

The Army did not immediately release the name of the fourth soldier, whose body was found a day after the three other soldiers were found dead following an extensive international search effort that has involved hundreds of personnel from Lithuania, the United States, Poland and Estonia.<\/p>\n

The four U.S. soldiers, from the 1st Armored Brigade Combat Team, 3rd Infantry Division, were reported missing early on March 25, when they did not return from a training mission in an M88A2 Hercules, a 70-ton vehicle that is essentially a giant military tow truck.<\/p>\n

They had been sent out to extract another Army vehicle, the military said. But the soldiers may have driven off the road and into a deep bog, and they appeared to have been trapped inside as the vehicle sank, according to an Army official in Europe. The U.S. Army is investigating the cause of the accident.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n