A timelapse b-roll package of Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) recovery teams loading gear onto pallets in preparation for an upcoming recovery mission, Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, Hawaii, May 8, 2024. DPAA’s Logistics Directorate is responsible for supplying and shipping all the necessary equipment needed for recovery operations. This includes everything from contico boxes which hold personal items, to the stakes and rope used to map out site grids. (U.S. Air Force video by Staff Sgt. Blake Gonzales)
As she scanned the area, she found that there were drastic changes to the landscape since the previous excavation and her plan had to compensate for those changes. It was on Jan 21, 2023, that she, along with the service members and civilians of recovery team one with the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA), reached a possible site of a pilot lost during the Vietnam War.
