GONE INTO THE SEA: The Tragic Final Hours of Two American Soldiers in Morocco
A week-long search across 8,200 square miles ends in a coastal cave — and a C-130 bound for home CAP DRAA TRAINING AREA, Morocco — The Atlantic swallowed them without a sound. No explosion. No enemy fire. Just a cliff, a cruel coastline, and the indifferent roar of the sea. One week after two US soldiers vanished during the massive African Lion 2026 military exercises, the United States Army confirmed Wednesday that both bodies have been recovered. The second soldier’s remains were found — joining 19-year-old Specialist Mariyah Collington , whose body was discovered Tuesday inside a coastal cave, trapped between rock and tide. “Search and rescue operations have concluded,” the Army said in a terse statement. “With both Soldiers accounted for, the focus shifts to recovery and repatriation.” The two bodies were transferred to a Moroccan military hospital, then solemnly loaded aboard a US Air Force C-130 transport plane . By late Wednesday, they were already ...