Service members with the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) wait to off-load cases from an Air Force C-17 Globemaster III during a solemn movement of probable remains of unidentified military personnel from the Battle of Tarawa at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, Hawaii, July 24, 2017. The contents of the transfer cases will be examined by forensic anthropologists at DPAA’s skeletal identification laboratory. DPAA’s mission is to provide the fullest possible accounting for our missing personnel, their families and our nation. (DPAA

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