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Ulfh3dnar<p>The body of the fourth and final U.S. Army soldier who went missing during exercises near Pabradė has been found in Lithuania.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/USA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USA</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Lithuania" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Lithuania</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Pabrade" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Pabrade</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Soldiers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Soldiers</span></a></p>
kravietz 🦇<p>The US <a class="hashtag" href="https://agora.echelon.pl/tag/m88" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#M88</a> vehicle sunk into bog on <a class="hashtag" href="https://agora.echelon.pl/tag/pabrade" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Pabrade</a> military training ground in <a class="hashtag" href="https://agora.echelon.pl/tag/lithuania" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Lithuania</a> has been recovered last night.</p><p>Please note there’s now <em>only</em> confirmation of recovery of the vehicle but no videos and photos, and, most importantly, no information about the crew. It’s not because “it’s not there”, as some social media are speculating, but because of US embargo on information about the fate of <em>their</em> crew that will be only only published by US MOD likely after families are notified, which likely means mid-day US time.</p><p>Realistically, I think chances of crew evacuating from the vehicle after sinking are zero because at depth of 5 m the pressure on the hatches would be equivalent to 5 tons if it was just water.</p><p>The recovery operation was very challenging technically due to the weight of the vehicle (70 tons) multiplied by the density of the bog - not just water, but highly viscous mud. From what I’ve seen they’ve used two separate multiple pulley systems attached to two bulldozers which acted as anchors, plus two other M88 working as winches.</p><p>P.S. some channels are posting a historic video of recovery of some WW2 tanks from a swamp, which are unrelated to the M88 incident</p><p>Likely geolocation <a href="https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=12/55.024350/25.918087" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=12/55.024350/25.918087</a></p>
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