{"id":116599,"date":"2026-05-04T22:13:57","date_gmt":"2026-05-05T03:13:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=116599"},"modified":"2026-05-04T22:13:57","modified_gmt":"2026-05-05T03:13:57","slug":"116599","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=116599","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/townhall.com\/tipsheet\/josephchalfant\/2026\/05\/04\/heres-the-background-on-the-two-american-soldiers-who-went-missing-over-the-weekend-n2675527\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Here&#8217;s the Background on the Two American Soldiers Who Went Missing Over the Weekend<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Two American service members went missing over the weekend while participating in a joint military exercise with partner nations in North Africa. Search and rescue efforts are still underway.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Two U.S. service members have been reported missing while participating in exercise African Lion 2026 in Morocco, according to a release from U.S. Africa Command. The service members were last known to be in the area of Cap Draa Training Area, near the city of Tan Tan, Morocco\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/oCWkIHVlYt\">pic.twitter.com\/oCWkIHVlYt<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; OSINTdefender (@sentdefender) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/sentdefender\/status\/2050915642576896053?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 3, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>CBS has reported that the two soldiers were off-duty and had decided to go on a hike to observe the sunset when one fell off of a cliff and into the water below. A number of soldiers then attempted to form a human chain to rescue their comrade in the water, but failed to pull them up. The second soldier then jumped into the water for a rescue attempt, but failed. A third soldier also attempted a rescue, but returned to shore after likewise failing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s the Background on the Two American Soldiers Who Went Missing Over the Weekend Two American service members went missing over the weekend while participating in a joint military exercise with partner nations in North Africa. Search and rescue efforts are still underway. Two U.S. service members have been reported missing while participating in exercise &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=116599\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[97,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-116599","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-international","category-military"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116599","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=116599"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116599\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":116600,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116599\/revisions\/116600"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=116599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=116599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=116599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}