Air Force Airmen with the Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson Base Honor Guard prepare for an honorable movement of a service member recovered during Operation Colony Glacier at JBER, Alaska, June 25, 2022. The transfer cases will go to Dover Air Force Base, Delaware, for identification of remains and personal effects before being returned to families. Operation Colony Glacier is an effort to recover the remains of service members and wreckage from a 1952 flight which had 52 military members on board. As of June 2022, 47 of the 52 service members’ remains have been recovered and identified.

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