It is one of the tragic facts of the military life that the soldier must often die Before anyone noticed Where are the soldiers and what they do there. This was the case last week in Lithuania when four soldiers from the first armored brigade of the third infantry squad disappeared after the M88 armored vehicle disappeared in what was described as a chicking quagmire during a training exercise near the border with Belarus, a close ally of Russia.
The bodies of three of the four soldiers were recovered on Monday after an effort for a week to withdraw the M88 from the swamp of the swamp. The army did not announce their names, and its efforts are still finding the body of the fourth soldier who is still missing. President Trump was asked during the availability of the White House press last week whether he was informed of the disappearance of soldiers in Lithuania. He answered that he did not, and the interrogation is from Journalists moved to other topics.
We have now learned that four soldiers have lost their lives defending European countries that are neither Trump nor the vice president nor his defense secretary. It is a tragedy and scandal.
Unfortunately, this is a typical thing when the soldiers are lost in training accidents, which occur all the time. When the soldiers are not in war, they are training, and much of what they do is dangerous. The M88 is up to a 40,000 -pound cloud truck, equipped to withdraw other armored vehicles such as M1A1 tanks and armored Bradley tankers that have been broken or stumbled in one way or another in clay, snow or in a trench. The army did not announce what the task was the soldiers, other than saying that they had been sent to restore another vehicle that had collapsed. It is not clear after what happened to send the M88 to the church of peat, but it is suspected that the car was moving on the road and somehow slipped into the swamp water. If you have guessed, I say that the M88 was lost at night when the vision was bad, and the road was through a dense forest.
The thing in armored vehicles is that, protected with their thick adhesive, you feel safe until something wrong occurs. After that, apparently happened with the accident in Lithuania, when the car is held and drowned in the swamp, the crew is unable to escape.
Here what happened. The M88 and its crew were detained and sent on the recovery mission when the news appeared on the radio that another vehicle was in trouble. Using a powerful Winch, the M88 recovery can withdraw something weighing up to 140,000 pounds of trouble or raising a vehicle up to 35,000 pounds using a crane similar mutation. The M88 usually contains a three crew: a vehicle driver, a driver and a third soldier to help extract. The three bodies that were recovered inside the car are found. It is not known to what happened to the fourth body, but he might have been the driver of the vehicle and was standing in the dome of the commander while the M88 slipped from the road to the swamp and was able to jump for free, only to absorb the swamp with the M88.
I don’t know how long was the third pedestrian department in Lithuania, but I know what they are doing there. They deterred Vladimir Putin from any idea that he and his head of brides in Belarus may be rolled over the Baltic and Poland countries when Russia is going through Ukraine, none of this will appear at this stage in the three -year Ukraine war in order to remain.
Soldiers go to where they are asked to go. They have no voice in their mission policy or in the basis of the logical one. We also recently learned from the exchange of views between Trump’s national security team to implement the signal where they planned to attack Yemen, there is little love between people such as Vice Vice President JD Vance and the Defense Secretary of Defense to our European allies who find themselves on the front lines of what has quickly become a new cold war between the civilized world and Russia. Trump has issued noise on the withdrawal of our military forces completely from Europe and allowing NATO and the European Union to go alone when it comes to defending themselves against any Russian aggression that might lie in their future.
But at the present time, there are American soldiers and members of the Air Force stationed on European soil, with sailors on the Harse Road outside in the Baltic Sea, the north and red. They did not ask to send them there. They were requested. Sea and sailors are launched on the daily by the Houthi rebels in Yemen. Although the third infantry department soldiers do not participate in the fighting in Lithuania, the job they do is not without danger, as we learned last week with the death of four soldiers.
Training incidents are a fact in life in the army. In the first Gulf War, more soldiers were killed or injured in training incidents during the period before the war when they were in Saudi Arabia more than they were killed when they crossed the border to Kuwait and participated in the Iraqi army. Almost everything that soldiers do is dangerous. They carry fatal weapons. They shoot them in training. They wander around heavy armored vehicles such as tanks, armored personnel carriers, and mine -resistant vehicles. If one of these things extends over you, then you are dead. It is sometimes transported in combat helicopters such as Blackhawk, which participated in air accidents with each other and with Earth’s obstacles. Blackhawk, who recently crashed near Washington, was with DC, when it collided with a commercial plane working in a training exercise.
Just as soldiers kill wars, they can also die in training for war.
We sit here in our homes in the United States, ask for pizza, watch Netflix, put children in bed, and prepare to go to work in the morning, soldiers, sailors, pilots and marine infantry in the way to harm as soon as they do. We have about 140 military sites around the world. People who wear uniforms are concentrated in each of them. We do not know who they are or where they are or what they do until they make news, and the way they usually make news through injury or killing either in training or participation with an enemy that we do not even know.
The loss of four soldiers from the Third Infantry Division is a tragedy. The President of the United States did not hear about him even a day after he occurred, unfortunately, especially this president, who has repeatedly expressed his contempt for the army members under his leadership.
Trump’s national security team did not care about the pilots who sent him to the fight against the Houthis to the point that they used the unsafe civil signal application to plan the task. Now we have learned that four soldiers have lost their lives defending European countries that are neither Trump nor the vice president nor his defense secretary. It is a tragedy and scandal.
Unfortunately, the soldiers learn that even losing their lives has sparked the lives of the hollow Donald Trump and his men.
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