Specialized team of the US Navy diving, the engineers join the search for the search for 4 soldiers who disappeared in Lithuania

A specialized team from the US Navy and a group of Polish engineers joined the recovery operation for the four American soldiers who went Missing in Lithuania During a training exercise, officials said on Saturday.

The new reinforcements will work to recover the armored vehicle M88A2 Hercules, which was found on Wednesday March 26. The armored vehicle remains submerged under at least 15 feet of water, mud and clay -shaped silt, US military officials said on Saturday in a statement.

“We are going to use all the resources available in all our countries to find our missing soldiers,” said major-general Curtis Taylor, 1st armored Division Commander General, in the press release.

Recovery efforts will focus on removing water and mud from the area, up the soil around the site to support heavy equipment and prepare the site for diving operations, officials said.

The withdrawal of the armored vehicle and the recovery of missing soldiers will be a long and difficult operation, US officials said. To help navigate the difficult field, specialized divers of the American Navy commander, the Task 68 force, which comes from Rota, in Spain, will focus on the search for lift points on the M88A2 and will provide highly specialized equipment and training which will allow them to navigate the difficult environment around Hercules.

The troops have disappeared in a training zone near Pabrade, near the extreme eastern border of Lithuania with Belarus, a nation closely combined with RussiaThe United States Embassy in Vilnius said in a statement published on social networks.

The American army later says it heavyArmored recovery vehicle of 70 tonnes that the missing American soldiers led “was found overwhelmed at around 15 feet under a body of water and mud in a swampy” “bonded at a neighboring lake.

“We are going to start by putting our defender (vehicle at a distance from a distance) in the water to paint a clear image of what we can expect there, as well as our arte on the Sona plan,” said the principal Master Carlos Hernandez in a press release.

They were joined by 55 Polish engineers and recovery experts, they brought 13 vehicles, four engineering / tool workshop trucks, a fuel with 10 tonnes of fuel and three recovery vehicles followed by WZT-3, said officials.

“We will not rest until our soldiers are found,” said Taylor.

The Associated Press

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