U.S Army Sgt. Claire Laput (left) Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) recovery team non-commissioned officer augmentee, screens soil during a recovery mission, Nghệ An Province, Socialist Republic of Vietnam, March 19, 2023. The DPAA tasks volunteers of all military branch job backgrounds to serve in an all encompassing recovery non-commissioned officer (NCO) capacity. The tasks of a recovery NCO can range from excavating soil and screening soil, to using their job specific background to improve working procedures on site. (Since 1973, the remains of more than 1,000 Americans killed during the Vietnam War have been identified and returned to their families for burial with full military honors. The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency tirelessly continues the search for the remaining 1,581 missing in action service-members from the Vietnam War, in order to provide the fullest possible accounting for our missing and unaccounted-for U.S. personnel to their families and the nation. (U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Cole Yardley)
| Date Taken: | 03.19.2023 |
| Date Posted: | 03.27.2023 10:47 |
| Photo ID: | 7701262 |
| VIRIN: | 230319-F-FU430-118 |
| Resolution: | 4622x3081 |
| Size: | 6.28 MB |
| Location: | VN |
| Web Views: | 35 |
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