A local villager strips the bark off of a tree with a machete during the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency's (DPAA) recovery operations in Khammounan Province, People’s Democratic Republic of Laos, March 15, 2017. DPAA team members deployed to the area in hopes of recovering the remains of two pilots 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.

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