The body of a fourth U.S. Army soldier was found in Lithuania Tuesday, a week after he and his crew mates went missing during a training exercise.
The discovery came a day after the bodies of three other soldiers who were members of an M88A2 Hercules armored recovery vehicle crew were located in a forest near the city of Pabrade, close to the Lithuanian border with Russian ally Belarus.
All four men are believed to have drowned in the peat bog in which their armored vehicle got stuck, but the cause of the accident remains under investigation, the Army said in a news release.
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M88A2s weigh about 70 tons and are used to tow tanks and other disabled armored vehicles.
The crew had been deployed
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