{"id":24037,"date":"2026-05-03T15:11:40","date_gmt":"2026-05-03T15:11:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/2026\/05\/03\/u-s-troops-missing-after-war-games-exercise-massive-manhunt-underway\/"},"modified":"2026-05-03T15:11:40","modified_gmt":"2026-05-03T15:11:40","slug":"u-s-troops-missing-after-war-games-exercise-massive-manhunt-underway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/2026\/05\/03\/u-s-troops-missing-after-war-games-exercise-massive-manhunt-underway\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. Troops Missing After \u2018War Games\u2019 Exercise, Massive Manhunt Underway"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div style=\"position:relative\" data-narration-container=\"true\">\n<p>Two United States service members are missing in Morocco after a massive war games exercise involving multiple nations.<\/p>\n<p>The United States Africa Command (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.africom.mil\/pressrelease\/36450\/search-and-rescue-ongoing-at-african-lion-2026\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">AFRICOM<\/a>) released a statement indicating that the two had gone missing somewhere near the Cap Draa Training Area \u2014 which lies just under 20 miles from the Atlantic Ocean near the city of Tan Tan. AFRICOM did not reveal which branch of service was involved.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTwo U.S. service members participating in African Lion 2026 were reported missing near the Cap Draa Training Area, near the city of Tan Tan, Morocco, May 2, 2026,\u201d the command posted via X.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Two U.S. service members participating in African Lion 2026 were reported missing near the Cap Draa Training Area, near the city of Tan Tan, Morocco, May 2, 2026.<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/7zxpKQRHfB\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/t.co\/7zxpKQRHfB<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 U.S. Africa Command (AFRICOM) (@USAfricaCommand) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/USAfricaCommand\/status\/2050898946659094702?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">May 3, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cU.S., Moroccan and other assets from African Lion immediately initiated coordinated search and rescue operations, including ground, air, and maritime assets,\u201d the linked statement continued. \u201cThe incident remains under investigation and the search is on-going.\u00a0Our focus is on the service members involved and their families.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAdditional information will be provided as it becomes available,\u201d the command promised, but no other details were given as to what may have been then nature of the \u201cincident.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The war games exercise, referred to as African Lion, includes more than 7,000 troops from at least 30 nations, and was set to conclude in early May. The exercise was to play out across the four African nations of Morocco, Ghana, Senegal, and Tunisia.<\/p>\n<p>The annual war games exercise \u2014 which was first launched in 2004 \u2014 includes American service members from the United States Marine Corps, Air Force, Army Reserve, and Army National Guard \u2014 and is touted as a chance to bring together senior leadership from several allied nations in cooperation and strategic development.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/u-s-troops-missing-after-war-games-exercise-massive-manhunt-underway\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two United States service members are missing in Morocco after a massive war games exercise involving multiple nations. The United States Africa Command (AFRICOM) released a statement indicating that the two had gone missing somewhere near the Cap Draa Training Area \u2014 which lies just under 20 miles from the Atlantic Ocean near the city [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":24038,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-24037","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-current-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24037","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24037"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24037\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24038"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}