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The Army has identified the fourth soldier who died during a training in Lithuania as a 28-year-old man from Battle Creek.
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Lithuania’s political and religious leaders joined thousands of people on Thursday to bid farewell to four American soldiers who died during a training exercise in the Baltic nation.
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The U.S. soldiers had been at the center of a recovery mission in Lithuania for nearly a week after their armored vehicle sank near the country's border with Belarus.
The recovery operation for the bodies and the M88 was an intricate and arduous weeklong process, enlisting the expertise of roughly 200 personnel from the U.S., Polish, Estonian and Lithuanian armed forces.
The Army released the identities of the three soldiers recovered Monday: Sgt. Jose Duenez Jr., of Joliet, Illinois; Sgt. Edvin F. Franco, of Glendale, California; and Pfc. Dante D. Taitano, of Dededo,
The soldiers were in a vehicle that became trapped in a bog during a training mission last week. A fourth soldier was still missing.
The fourth and final missing U.S. soldier whose armored vehicle sank in a swamp in Lithuania last week was found deceased Tuesday, military officials say.
A vigil in Chicago Thursday night honored the four soldiers, including Sgt. Jose Duenez, Jr. of Joliet, who died in Lithuania during a training exercise.
The four soldiers disappeared during a training exercise last week when their armored vehicle became submerged in a peat bog.
Three of the U.S. Army soldiers who went missing in Lithuania have been found dead in their armored vehicle that was pulled from a swampy area.
Still grieving from the immense loss, 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 Belarus.
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