Members of the 25-3VN underwater recovery team for the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency, Vietnam Detachment 2, and Vietnamese workers load equipment into trucks to be used for an underwater recovery mission in Dang Nang Province, Vietnam, May 26, 2025. DPAA’s mission is to provide the fullest possible accounting for our missing personnel to their families and the nation; there are currently 1,571 missing U.S. personnel from the Vietnam War. (U.S. Air Force video by Staff Sgt. Taylor Crul)
U.S. Army personnel assigned to the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency celebrated their branch’s 250th birthday at the DPAA Daniel K. Inouye Center for Excellence in Hawaii, June 13, 2025.
In the dense, rain-soaked jungles of Southeast Asia, the mission endures. Beneath the canopy of Dak Man, Laos, a dedicated team of U.S. service members and civilians press forward through thick mud and relentless monsoons—not for victory, but for remembrance. They are part of a recovery operation led by the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency, working to recover and identify missing U.S. personnel who never returned from the war in Vietnam.
An Explosive Ordnance Disposal technician assigned as a Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency short term individual augmentee, deployed with a small team of military and civilian members to A Loui, Vietnam, from March 1 to April 17, 2025, as part of a DPAA mission to recover and identify remains of missing U.S. personnel from past conflicts.
