Service members, deployed as a recovery team for the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA), excavate for remains in Lak Xao Province, Laos, March 15, 2016. Their efforts are focused on the search for personnel who went down in a Sikorsky HH-3E helicopter during a reconnaissance mission. DPAA's mission is to provide the fullest possible accounting for our missing personnel to their families and the nation. (DoD photo by Cpl. John Tran/RELEASED)

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Keywords: 16-3la, dpaa, excavations, laos, operations, recovery