Marine Corps Staff Sgt. Chaz West and Army Capt. Christian Petersen (DENTAC) assigned to the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA), sifts through soil at the water screening station as part of DPAA's recovery mission near Ban Chanon village, Khammouon Province, Lao People’s Democratic Republic, Mar. 13, 2017. DPAA team members deployed to the area in hopes of recovering the remains of a pilot unaccounted-for from the Vietnam Conflict. The mission of DPAA is to provide the fullest possible accounting for our missing personnel to their families and the nation.

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