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The Polish military has established a group to assist the Lithuanian Army and U.S. Army in a recovery operation for four U.S. Army soldiers who disappeared early Tuesday during a training exercise ne...
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Georgia Franco shared the final texts she received before the U.S. Army discovered her husband's remains in a Lithuania peat bog after he went missing during a training mission near the border of Bela...
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The soldiers’ armored vehicle sank in an area of wetlands a week ago.
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Only three of the four of the soldiers were identified on Tuesday. All four of the soldiers' bodies have been recovered from the bog.
Sgt. Jose Duenez, Jr., 25, was one of four Fort Stewart soldiers killed during a training mission in Lithuania. Watch the above video as friends and family in Duenez's hometown remember him. He leaves behind a wife and young child.
The four soldiers were based out of Georgia's Fort Stewart with the 3rd Infantry Division. VILNIUS COUNTY, Lithuania — Three of the four soldiers who were operating in an armored vehicle that sank into a mud sinkhole in a bog in Lithuania have been found dead, the Secretary of the Army announced Monday.
A procession will be streamed live at 5 a.m. Eastern Time for the four deceased soldiers who went missing on March 25 in Pabradė, Lithuania.
According to GoFundMe, several fundraisers were set up in the wake of the soldiers' disappearance. The military has not released the names of the deceased. However, fundraisers identify the soldiers as Sgt. Edvin Franco, SPC Dante Taitano, Troy Knutson-Collins and Jose Duenez Jr.
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