U.S. Soldier Missing in Morocco Training Exercise Found Dead; Search Continues for Second Troop

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BREAKING: The body of a U.S. Army soldier who went missing during a training exercise in Morocco has been recovered, the Army announced Sunday. The soldier was identified as First Lieutenant Lamont Key Jr., one of two American service members who disappeared off Morocco’s southern coast during the African Lion exercise on May 2.

A Moroccan military search team recovered Key’s body along the shoreline about a mile from where the two soldiers vanished. The second soldier remains missing.