The remains of 1st Lt. Kendrick Lamont Key Jr., 27, were recovered from the Atlantic Ocean on May 9 after he went missing during a recreational hike in Morocco a week earlier. Key and a second soldier fell off a cliff near the Cap Draa Training Area while off duty during the African Lion military exercise. A Moroccan military search team found his remains in the water approximately one mile from where both soldiers entered the ocean.
- 🪖 Key was “a 14A Air Defense Artillery officer” assigned to “Charlie Battery, 5th Battalion, 4th Air Defense Artillery Regiment, 10th Army Air and Missile Defense Command.”
- 🔍 The search-and-rescue operation involved “more than 600 personnel from the United States, Morocco and other military partners” and deployed “frigates, vessels, helicopters and drones.”
- ⚔️ African Lion 26 is “a U.S.-led exercise launched in April across four countries – Morocco, Tunisia, Ghana and Senegal – with more than 7,000 personnel from over 30 nations” and has been the largest U.S. joint military exercise in Africa since 2004.
Source: Associated Press – Read the full article →
