Daily SumUp

Equipment, resources, and personnel continue to flow to the recovery site as operations are ongoing to find four U.S. Soldiers missing since the morning of March 25. The M88A2 Hercules they were operating has continued to sink into the bog, and is assessed to be around four meters below the water’s surface and encased in about two meters of mud. Digging and pumping operations are continuing. A Rapidly Available Interface for Trans-loading (RAIL) system is expected to arrive this afternoon to enable the use of heavier equipment around the site.

The RAIL system is an expeditionary platform used to provide a rapidly constructed and scalable capability platform. Traditionally used to facilitate offloading and onloading railroad networks in challenging terrain, engineers requested the system to help stabilize the ground around the recovery site. U.S. Army Soldiers assigned to the U.S. Army 21st Theater Sustainment Command (TSC) are transporting the system from Kaiserslautern, Germany.