The M88 Heavy Equipment Recovery Combat Utility Lifting Extraction ... It's a beast of a full-tracked armored vehicle that weighs 70 tons, designed to help out every type of main battle tank ...

Three American soldiers were declared deceased on Monday after crews in Lithuania retrieved the M88 Hercules armored recovery vehicle they were traveling in, which sank in a swamp last week.

Battlefield recovery and maintenance So what is the M88 that sank? The M88 recovery vehicle has been a vital asset to the US military since the Vietnam War. The recovery vehicle's primary role is ...

"Not only are we dealing with the terrain, a lot of mud that is over top of the vehicle, but also the fact that it's 70 tons that we're trying to recover out of a swamp or bog," Brig. Gen. John Lloyd, ...

A U.S. M88 Hercules armored recovery vehicle that was carrying four American soldiers was retrieved in Pabradė, Lithuania, early Monday after sinking in a swamp last week. The fate of the four ...

The soldiers, who were discovered in an M88 armored vehicle that sank into ... the Advanced Leaders Course, the Tracked Vehicle Recovery Operations course and the Combat Lifesaver course, he ...