Body of US Army Lieutenant Found after Morocco exercise disappearance

The body of 1st Lt Kendrick Lamont Key Jr., a 27-year-old U.S. Army artillery officer from Richmond, Virginia, was recovered by a Moroccan search team along the shoreline about a mile from where two soldiers disappeared during African Lion 2026 training in Morocco. The second missing soldier remains unaccounted for as US and Moroccan forces continue ground, air, and maritime searches. Key, who entered service in 2023 after studying marketing and business at Methodist University, earned an Army Achievement Medal and Army Service Ribbon. The Army grieves his loss and will repatriate his remains; it remains unclear whether Key was the first or second to fall into the ocean during the sunset-viewing hike that preceded the incident.