In the Lithuanian Podbrodzie training field, a search and rescue operation of four American soldiers has been carried out. A armored recovery vehicle Hercules and its crew of four people disappeared during a shooting field exercise, which was located at the bottom of the swamp, as reported by the Polish channel .
The search participated, among others, Polish soldiers, to whom the US army thanked the aid in “the complex operation.” The Polish medium emphasizes that “efforts are being made to recover the vehicle”, but the search “develops in very unfavorable conditions, since the terrain is muddy and it is difficult to drive there heavy machinery.”
Late in Saturday afternoon, the divers tried to reach the sunk M88. However, they were not successful because the vehicle was buried under a layer of compacted mud, the Lithuanian army reported in a statement.
Lithuanians report that sludge pumping continued during the night from Saturday to Sunday. Wetlands have also been cleaned and the number of machinery in operation has been increased.
The Vice Prime Minister and Minister of National Defense of Poland, Władysław Kosiniak-Kamysz, announced last Thursday that a working group formed by several tens of soldiers with heavy team and frog men urgently left Poland to Lithuania to help find the missing American soldiers there and recover their combat vehicle.
“The cold, the rain, the mud, the water … none of this will prevent us from bringing our soldiers home. Together with our Lithuanian and Poles allies, we will achieve it,” said the US army in a statement on social networks.
