U.S. Navy Chief Petty Officer Alexander Greenspan, a Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) explosive ordnance technician in the Expeditionary Support Directorate, sits in the conference room of the largest forensic laboratory in the world, a Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) facility located on Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam (JBPHH) during an interview where he described the scope of his duties and past missions in Vietnam, Korea, Poland, and Malaysia. On a DPAA recovery mission, two EOD technicians deploy with about 10 to 15 personnel and can clear tens of square meters of dirt each day looking for unexploded ordnance and the work is dangerous and sometimes EOD technicians encounter cluster bombs. DPAA has been described as an organization that keeps one inviolable promise – that the fallen will never be forgotten. After more than 75 years, this promise was kept for another service member and his family. In December 2024, U.S. Navy Seaman 2nd Class John C. Auld, a Sailor who perished aboard the USS Oklahoma (BB 37) during the Dec. 7, 1941, attack on Pearl Harbor was honored and buried in Albuquerque, New Mexico, fulfilling DPAA’s mission to provide the fullest possible accounting for service members’ families and the nation. (U.S. Navy photo by Melvin J. Gonzalvo)
| Date Taken: | 02.04.2025 |
| Date Posted: | 03.03.2025 20:19 |
| Photo ID: | 8896110 |
| VIRIN: | 250204-N-KN989-1003 |
| Resolution: | 1920x1080 |
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| Location: | HONOLULU, HAWAII, US |
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