The U.S. Army has identified Staff Sgt. Troy S. Knutson-Collins, 28, of Battle Creek, Michigan, as the fourth soldier who died in a training accident in Lithuania.
Knutson-Collins’s body was recovered Tuesday after a weeklong search involving hundreds of military personnel and rescue workers from three countries, according to an Army statement on Wednesday.
The three other soldiers who died in the accident were identified earlier as Sgt. Jose Duenez Jr., 25, of Joliet, Illinois; Sgt. Edvin F. Franco, 25, of Glendale, California, and Pfc. Dante D. Taitano, 21, of Dededo, Guam.
Knutson-Collins, Duenez, and Franco were all posthumously promoted to the rank of staff sergeant, the Army said….