Navy Petty Officer 1st Class Shane Stutenville, an augmentee deployed by Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA), breaks compacted soil into smaller pieces at an excavation unit during a DPAA recovery mission Khammouon province, Lao People’s Democratic Republic, March 23, 2017. DPAA team members deployed to the area in hopes of recovering the remains of a pilot unaccounted-for from the Vietnam Conflict. The mission of DPAA is to provide the fullest possible accounting for our missing personnel to their families and the nation. ( Army photo by Staff Sgt. Richard DeWitt)

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Keywords: 17-3la, accounting, agency, defense, dpaa, laos, missing, pow/mia, recovery, servicemember