The U.S. soldiers had been at the center of a recovery mission in Lithuania for nearly a week after their armored vehicle sank near the country's border with Belarus.

NATO is clarifying comments that Secretary-General Mark Rutte made when he suggested that four U.S. soldiers who went missing while training in Lithuania had died, even though the U.S. Army said their

There will be a formal, dignified departure ceremony for the four Army soldiers on Thursday in Lithuania's capital, Vilnius.

The Army has released the identity of the fourth soldier who died in a training accident in Lithuania, a day after his body was recovered during a weeklong search that took hundreds of troops and other rescue workers from three nations.

The four soldiers disappeared during a training exercise last week when their armored vehicle became submerged in a peat bog.

Thousands stood in respect on Vilnius' streets as hearses carried the bodies of the four soldiers to the airport before being flown to the U.S. for burial.

The M88A2 Hercules was recovered from a swamp during a recovery operation for four US Army soldiers who went missing during a training exercise.

Knutson-Collins, 28, was the final soldier recovered from an M88A2 Hercules recovery vehicle that sank in a Lithuanian swamp on March 25. Hundreds of U.S. and Lithuanian soldiers, sailors and civilians worked around the clock to retrieve the four missing in the crash.

On Thursday, Lithuanian television network LRT aired the procession ceremony of the four U.S. soldiers who died during training in March. Members of the U.S. and Lithuanian military, along with Lithuanian citizens — many of them holding American flags — lined the streets of Vilnius to pay their respects.