Army Staff Sgt. Joel Vaccaro, an augment with Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) assigned to 716th Ordnance Company (Explosive Ordnance Disposal), checks for metal material at an excavation unit as part of a DPAA recovery mission, Guadalcanal province, Solomon Islands, Nov. 18, 2016. DPAA team members deployed to the area in hopes of recovering the remains of a pilot unaccounted for from the Battle of Guadalcanal during World War II. The mission of DPAA is to provide the fullest possible accounting for our missing personnel to their families and the nation.

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Keywords: accounting, agency, archive, armed, defence, defense, dpaa, forces, guadalcanal, islands, military, pow/mia, recovery, reportage, servicemen, solomon, usa, wwii