Army Sgt. 1st Class Nathan Fair, right, Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) team sergeant, and local workers push excavated soil and debris through a wet screening station, Xiangkouang province, Lao People's Democratic Republic, Oct. 31, 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. ( Marine Corps

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