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    23-2LA Mountainside Recovery Mission Operations [Image 6 of 12]

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    23-2LA Mountainside Recovery Mission Operations

    LAO PEOPLE'S DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC

    02.01.2023

    Photo by Sgt. Morgan Burgess 

    Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency

    U.S. Air Force MSgt Kevin Christensen, life support investigator, Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA), poses for a photo with a Lao worker at the wet screen station during a recovery mission in the Lao People’s Democratic Republic, Feb. 1, 2023.

    Each recovery mission can involve up to 65 U.S. personnel plus Lao counterparts. Both countries work together on investigations and excavations throughout the country between 30 – 45 days per mission. Recovered remains believed to be those of Americans are transferred to DPAA’s laboratory in Hawaii for further analysis and identification by forensic anthropologists.

    Since 1985 the United States and Lao governments have worked closely together to find and recover unaccounted-for American service members. There are still 286 missing Americans in Laos from the Vietnam War. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Sgt. Morgan L. R. Burgess)

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    Date Taken: 02.01.2023
    Date Posted: 02.06.2023 13:13
    Photo ID: 7616557
    VIRIN: 230201-M-UN760-0254
    Resolution: 3779x6016
    Size: 15.62 MB
    Location: LA

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