Blake Ayala, scientific recovery expert, Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA), records data during a recovery mission in an excavation site in the Lao People’s Democratic Republic, Feb. 12, 2023. Since 1985 the United States and Lao governments have worked together to find and recover unaccounted-for American service members. Through unified work, both countries work to identify the 286 missing Americans in Laos from the Vietnam War. DPAA’s mission is to achieve the fullest possible accounting for missing and unaccounted-for personnel to their families and the nation.

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Keywords: 23-2la, accounting, agency, defense, dpaa, laos, pow/mia, unknown