{"id":11218,"date":"2025-03-26T18:00:59","date_gmt":"2025-03-26T18:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/investingsstrategist.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/26\/4-us-army-soldiers-go-missing-during-lithuanian-training-mission\/"},"modified":"2025-03-26T18:00:59","modified_gmt":"2025-03-26T18:00:59","slug":"4-us-army-soldiers-go-missing-during-lithuanian-training-mission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/investingsstrategist.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/26\/4-us-army-soldiers-go-missing-during-lithuanian-training-mission\/","title":{"rendered":"4 US Army soldiers go missing during Lithuanian training mission"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\">            Four US Army soldiers went missing during a training mission close to Lithuania\u2019s border with Belarus, military officials said Wednesday, and a search is underway.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\">            The soldiers were reported missing on Tuesday in a training area near the city of Pabrade at approximately 4:45 p.m. (10:45 a.m. ET), the Lithuanian Armed Forces said in a Wednesday statement.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\">            \u201cThe soldiers, all from 1st Brigade, 3rd Infantry Division, were conducting scheduled tactical training at the time of the incident,\u201d the US Army Europe and Africa said in a statement.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\">            Search and recovery efforts involve the US Army, Lithuanian Armed Forces, Lithuanian law enforcement and others, the US Army added.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\">            According to the Lithuanian Armed Forces, helicopters and members of the country\u2019s border guard are also involved in the search.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\">            The US has maintained a presence in Eastern Europe and the Baltic region since 2014, in an operation called \u201cAtlantic Resolve,\u201d following Russia\u2019s invasion of Crimea.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\">            Lithuania, a member of both NATO and the European Union, hosts hundreds of American troops, who are stationed on a rotational basis.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\">            A US military camp named Camp Herkus was established in Pabrade in August 2021, Lithuania\u2019s Ministry of National Defence announced in a statement at the time. It is equipped to house up to 700 soldiers, or 1000 on a short-term basis, according to the Lithuanian Armed Forces.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\">            <em>This is a developing story and will be updated.<\/em>    <\/p>\n<\/p>\n<div>This post appeared first on cnn.com<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Four US Army soldiers went missing during a training mission close to Lithuania\u2019s border with Belarus, military officials said Wednesday, and a search is underway. The soldiers were reported missing on Tuesday in a training area near the city of Pabrade at approximately 4:45 p.m. (10:45 a.m. ET), the Lithuanian Armed Forces said in a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":11219,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11218","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/investingsstrategist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11218","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/investingsstrategist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/investingsstrategist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/investingsstrategist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11218"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/investingsstrategist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11218\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/investingsstrategist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11219"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/investingsstrategist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/investingsstrategist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/investingsstrategist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}