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From left to right, U.S. Marine Corps Staff Sgt. Matthew K. Sponagle, Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) explosive ordnance disposal technician, Hugh Tuller, DPAA scientific recovery expert (SRE), and Freddie Smith, DPAA life support investigator, review flags showing metal detector hits during recovery operations in England, Aug. 13, 2024. The daily recovery operations that each member cycles through for the 24-1GB team include loading material into buckets, utilizing the low-pressure water system, wet screening material, and collecting possible osseous material and life support equipment under the guidance of the Scientific Recovery Expert and Life Support Investigator. DPAA personnel and the STIA’s from U.S. Army and Air Force units from the 1st and 10th Cavalry Regiment, 91st Brigade Engineer Battalion, 786th Civil Engineering Squadron, 86th Dental Squadron, 606th Air Control Squadron, 86th Airlift Wing Public Affairs, 52nd Medical Group combine their knowledge and skills to propel progress in achieving the fullest possible accounting during the recovery mission. There are currently 72,042 U.S. personnel unaccounted-for from World War II in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland and the surrounding European and Mediterranean area. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Sgt. Morgan L. R. Burgess)
| Date Taken: | 08.13.2024 |
| Date Posted: | 08.14.2024 18:59 |
| Photo ID: | 8587430 |
| VIRIN: | 240813-M-UN760-1047 |
| Resolution: | 8655x2144 |
| Size: | 8.11 MB |
| Location: | GB |
| Web Views: | 45 |
| Downloads: | 2 |
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