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Three U.S. Army soldiers were found dead in Lithuania on Monday, nearly a week after the armored vehicle they had been using during a training mission became stuck in a deep and muddy bog, the Army sa...
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“This loss is simply devastating,” Maj. Gen. Christopher Norrie, the commanding general of the Third Infantry Division, said in a statement.
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The soldiers were aboard an M88A2 Hercules, a hulking armored recovery vehicle designed to tow tanks and other heavy machinery, when it became submerged in a bog last Tuesday, military officials said.
Three American soldiers were declared deceased on Monday after crews in Lithuania retrieved the M88 Hercules armored recovery vehicle they were traveling in, which sank in a swamp last week.
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