One of the two U.S. soldiers missing off the coast of Morocco leapt into the Atlantic to try to save the other’s life, defense officials said. The two soldiers were in the country to participate in a multinational training exercise known as African Lion, which takes place every year and is overseen by United States Africa Command (AFRICOM). The pair are understood to have been part of a group who used their recreation time Saturday to leave the Cap Draa Training Area, near the desert city of Tan-Tan, to scale some nearby clifftops to watch the sun setting to the west. One of the soldiers, who was unable to swim, fell into the ocean around 9 p.m. local time. This prompted the rest of the group to form a human chain using their belts to try to pull them out of the water, but this proved unsuccessful, according to CBS News . It was at this point the second soldier jumped in to try to save their colleague, only to be hit by a wave.…