Air Force Capt. Son Nguyen, augmented as a linguist by the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA), left, moves screened dirt with local workers as Marine Corps Sgt. Bradley Schwartz, DPAA augmented recovery noncommissioned officer, right, looks on at an excavation site in Tay Ninh province, Vietnam, Mar. 19, 2016. Nguyen, is an academic advisor and executive officer registrar stationed at the Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, Colo. Schwartz is a comptroller stationed at Camp Smith. Both are deployed as part of a recovery team deployed in search of two Service members lost in a

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Air Force Capt. Son Nguyen, augmented as a linguist by the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA), left, moves screened dirt with local workers as Marine Corps Sgt. Bradley Schwartz, DPAA augmented recovery noncommissioned officer, right, looks on at an excavation site in Tay Ninh province, Vietnam, Mar. 19, 2016. Nguyen, is an academic advisor and executive officer registrar stationed at the Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, Colo. Schwartz is a comptroller stationed at Camp Smith. Both are deployed as part of a recovery team deployed in search of two Service members lost in an L-19 aircraft crash in 1967. The DPAA mission is to provide the fullest possible accounting for our missing personnel to their families and the nation. (DoD photo by Tech. Sgt. Kathrine Dodd, USAF/RELEASED)

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