Local Lao workers move sandbags at an excavation site manned by a Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) recovery team, Xiangkouang province, Lao People's Democratic Republic, Nov. 17, 2017. DPAA personnel and augmentees spend their days digging and screening during excavation operations, in hopes of finding missing service members lost during the Vietnam War. The mission of DPAA is to provide the fullest possible accounting for our missing personnel to their families and the nation. ( Marine Corps

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