Local workers sit on a hill during a break during a recovery mission led by Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) personnel and augmentees, Xiangkouang province, Lao People's Democratic Republic, Nov. 1, 2017. DPAA personnel and augmentees spend their days digging and screening during excavation operations, in hopes of finding missing service members lost during the Vietnam War. 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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