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(54,814 posts) Mon Mar 31, 2025, 09:52 AM Monday

Lithuania Recovers Vehicle That Carried 4 Missing U.S. Soldiers

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/31/world/europe/lithuania-us-army-soldiers-swamp.html

https://www.archivebuttons.com/articles?article=https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/31/world/europe/lithuania-us-army-soldiers-swamp.html

Lithuania’s Defense Ministry said on Monday that it had pulled a U.S. military vehicle out of a deep and muddy bog, nearly a week after the four American soldiers riding it went missing.

The vehicle was pulled out of the bog on Sunday night, the Defense Ministry said on social media. It did not provide an update on the missing soldiers.

To lift the vehicle out, U.S. Navy divers swam into the bog to attach two cables to the sunken vehicle, the U.S. Army said on social media. The divers had difficulty reaching the vehicle because of the dense mud, and rescue crews excavated and pumped water out of the bog, the army said.

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Lithuania Recovers Vehicle That Carried 4 Missing U.S. Soldiers (Original Post) sinkingfeeling Monday OP

Sounds like murder or kidnapping. harumph Monday #1

Could also be defection, why I couldn't know, just enumerating possibilities. Bernardo de La Paz Monday #2

It's absolutely crazy you would write this. Melon Monday #11

If there are any bodies inside, they may have felt a sinking feeling. . . . nt Bernardo de La Paz Monday #3

funny, not funny WhiteTara Monday #4

Yes, and tRump doesn't know or care. . . . nt Bernardo de La Paz Monday #5

Monty Python meets Stephen King in our world. WhiteTara Monday #6

In those conditions it would probably mean they were trapped, unable to escape. nt ImNotGod Monday #7

I'm guessing they are still in it alarimer Monday #8

Benghazi Johnny2X2X Monday #9

Direct link from Ben Gazzhi to LithoBog, some people are saying BoRaGard Monday #10

harumph

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1. Sounds like murder or kidnapping.

Reply to sinkingfeeling (Original post)

Mon Mar 31, 2025, 09:57 AM

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Bernardo de La Paz

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2. Could also be defection, why I couldn't know, just enumerating possibilities.

Reply to harumph (Reply #1)

Mon Mar 31, 2025, 10:11 AM

Monday

They may have jammed the controls and jumped off before it went in. Or somebody may have.

Melon

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11. It's absolutely crazy you would write this.

Reply to harumph (Reply #1)

Mon Mar 31, 2025, 11:58 AM

Monday

Not everything is a conspiracy. There is video out of the recovery effort. We lose more soldiers to training accidents these days than to conflict. Four American service men lost their lives to an accident in a bog.