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North South Polar’s safety team leader, John Bradley,

North South Polar’s safety team leader, John Bradley,

North South Polar’s safety team leader, John Bradley, boards an Air Greenland A-Star helicopter that is heading to our fuel cache on a remote island near Koge Bay, Greenland, Aug. 7, 2013. Bradley along with NS... More

U.S. Army Staff Sgt. Matthew Weaver, a mountaineering

U.S. Army Staff Sgt. Matthew Weaver, a mountaineering

U.S. Army Staff Sgt. Matthew Weaver, a mountaineering specialist from the Northern Warfare Training Center in Alaska, treks through mountainous terrain while assisting with a Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command re... More

Staff Sgt. Thomas H. Nguyen, explosive ordnance disposal

Staff Sgt. Thomas H. Nguyen, explosive ordnance disposal

Staff Sgt. Thomas H. Nguyen, explosive ordnance disposal technician, 1st Explosive Ordnance Disposal Company, 7th Engineer Support Battalion, Combat Logistics Regiment 1, 1st Marine Logistics Group, sweeps for ... More

XIENLU, THE PEOPLE’S REPUBLIC OF LAOS (Mar. 10, 2013)

XIENLU, THE PEOPLE’S REPUBLIC OF LAOS (Mar. 10, 2013)

XIENLU, THE PEOPLE’S REPUBLIC OF LAOS (Mar. 10, 2013) Some boys from the local village rest in some shade as members of an Investigation Team from the Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command (JPAC) conduct interviews ... More

U.S. Navy Petty Officer 2nd Class Luis Valladaresmartinez,

U.S. Navy Petty Officer 2nd Class Luis Valladaresmartinez,

U.S. Navy Petty Officer 2nd Class Luis Valladaresmartinez, an augment working with the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA), screens soil while conducting an excavation in Laos, Nov.3, 2018. The team was se... More

U.S. Army Maj. Gen. Stephen D. Tom, the commander of

U.S. Army Maj. Gen. Stephen D. Tom, the commander of

U.S. Army Maj. Gen. Stephen D. Tom, the commander of the Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command (JPAC), salutes during the playing of the National Anthem at the start of the National POW/MIA Recognition Day ceremony ... More

JPAC Investigates Possible Leads in Philippines

JPAC Investigates Possible Leads in Philippines

NFANTA, QUEZON PROVINCE, PHILIPPINES (January 25, 2014) – Members of an Investigation Team excavate a possible site in search of possible evidence in accordance with their mission deployed by the Joint POW/MIA ... More

U.S. Army Staff Sgt. Denetra Reilly, with the Joint

U.S. Army Staff Sgt. Denetra Reilly, with the Joint

U.S. Army Staff Sgt. Denetra Reilly, with the Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command, digs in an established excavation grid in Thua Thien-Hue province, Vietnam. The 13-person team searched for physical evidence of t... More

Airman First Class Joseph Doria, 374th Airlift Wing

Airman First Class Joseph Doria, 374th Airlift Wing

Airman First Class Joseph Doria, 374th Airlift Wing loadmaster, guides a driver as he backs the truck to a C-130 in order to unload equipment after arriving at Tarawa, Reupublic of Kiribati, Aug. 6. Doria's cre... More

Service members assigned to the Joint POW/MIA Accounting

Service members assigned to the Joint POW/MIA Accounting

Service members assigned to the Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command build a platform for a sleeping shelter they will use during recovery operations on the island of Espiritu Santo in the Independent Republic of V... More

Dr. Alec Christensen, a forensic anthropologist with

Dr. Alec Christensen, a forensic anthropologist with

Dr. Alec Christensen, a forensic anthropologist with the Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command, inspects recovered evidence during a recovery operation in the Savannakhet province of Lao People's Democratic Republi... More

Gunnery Sgt. Bryon Bebout sweeps and area with a metal

Gunnery Sgt. Bryon Bebout sweeps and area with a metal

Gunnery Sgt. Bryon Bebout sweeps and area with a metal detector excavation operations in Madang Province. Bebout was part of a JPAC recovery team that excavated an aircraft crash site searching for nine America... More

U.S. Navy Senior Chief Petty Officer Dutch Rosario,

U.S. Navy Senior Chief Petty Officer Dutch Rosario,

U.S. Navy Senior Chief Petty Officer Dutch Rosario, background, cleans a Laotian man's ankle after he suffered a laceration to it in the Savannakhet province, June 1, 2011. Rosario is the medic with a Joint POW... More

Marine Corps Master Sgt. Floyde Rhoades, Marine Corps

Marine Corps Master Sgt. Floyde Rhoades, Marine Corps

Marine Corps Master Sgt. Floyde Rhoades, Marine Corps Sgt. Daniel Burgess, and retired Gunnery Sgt. Toby Tobas celebrate the 237th birthday of the United States Marine Corps on the beaches of Tarawa, the site o... More

Dr. Alec Christensen draws a wall profile for his notes

Dr. Alec Christensen draws a wall profile for his notes

Dr. Alec Christensen draws a wall profile for his notes during a recovery mission in the Savannakhet province, Laos People's Democratic Republic, June 6, 2011. Christensen is the recovery leader for a Joint POW... More

A child holds medication after seeing a U.S. Army doctor

A child holds medication after seeing a U.S. Army doctor

A child holds medication after seeing a U.S. Army doctor assigned to the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) during a recovery operation in Laos, Nov. 8, 2018. As part of the humanitarian mission, DPAA con... More

A local Laotian worker assisting members of the Defense

A local Laotian worker assisting members of the Defense

A local Laotian worker assisting members of the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) takes a break from assisting on excavation while looking for a U.S. service member considered missing-in-action from the ... More

U.S. military personnel from the Joint POW/ MIA Command (JPAC) Mortuary Affairs team prepare to board a U.S. Air Force C-130 Hercules cargo aircraft during Operation Unified Assistance at Utapao Air Base, Thailand, on Jan. 3, 2005. The team is heading for Bangkok, Thailand. More than 18,000 U.S. military personnel are providing humanitarian assistance in Southwest Asia after a 9.0 magnitude earthquake on Dec. 26, 2004, triggered devastating tsunamis that killed over 250,000 people in the region. (USAF PHOTO by TECH. SGT. Cohen A. Young) (Released)

U.S. military personnel from the Joint POW/ MIA Command (JPAC) Mortuar...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Base: Utapao Air Base Country: Thailand (THA) Scene Camera Operator: SSGT Cohen A. Young, USAF Release Status: Released to Public Combined Military Ser... More

US service members from the Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command (JPAC) struggle to execute an overhead press their Zodiac raft during Zodiac training at Hickam Harbor, Hickam Air Force Base (AFB), Hawaii (HI). US Army's (USA) 7th Dive Detachment from Fort Schafter, HI, is conducting the training to increase the unit's readiness for water recovery missions. JPAC's mission is to achieve the fullest possible accounting of all Americans missing as a result of our nation's previous conflicts

US service members from the Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command (JPAC) st...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Base: Hickam Air Force Base State: Hawaii (HI) Country: United States Of America (USA) Scene Camera Operator: SSGT Derrick C. Goode, USAF Release Stat... More

Three teams of service members from the Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command (JPAC) paddle their Zodiac rafts to the shore during Zodiac training at Hickam Harbor, Hickam Air Force Base (AFB), Hawaii (HI). The US Army (USA) 7th Engineer Detachment (Heavy Dive), Fort Shafter, HI, conducts the training for JPAC to increase the unit's readiness for water recovery missions. JPAC's mission is to achieve the fullest possible accounting of all Americans missing as a result of our nation's previous conflicts. In the background is a Los Angeles Class submarine not part of the exercise

Three teams of service members from the Joint POW/MIA Accounting Comma...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Base: Hickam Air Force Base State: Hawaii (HI) Country: United States Of America (USA) Scene Camera Operator: SSGT Derrick C. Goode, USAF Release Stat... More

Marine Corps Capt. Jared Sprunk stands ready to command

Marine Corps Capt. Jared Sprunk stands ready to command

Marine Corps Capt. Jared Sprunk stands ready to command the troops during an arrival ceremony hosted by the Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command to honor fallen U.S. personnel whose identifies remain unknown. The r... More

Senior Chief Petty Officer Matthew Clark transports

Senior Chief Petty Officer Matthew Clark transports

Senior Chief Petty Officer Matthew Clark transports buckets while conducting recovery operations in the Thua Thien Hue province of Vietnam. Clark is augmented to an Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command team. The Co... More

Vietnamese locals assist the Defense POW/MIA Accounting

Vietnamese locals assist the Defense POW/MIA Accounting

Vietnamese locals assist the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) during a recovery mission in Nghe An province, Vietnam, Nov. 20, 2017. The mission of DPAA is to provide the fullest possible accounting for... More

U.S. Marine Corps Sgt. Wayne Hansen, a Joint POW/MIA

U.S. Marine Corps Sgt. Wayne Hansen, a Joint POW/MIA

U.S. Marine Corps Sgt. Wayne Hansen, a Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command photographer, practices administering intravenous fluid to U.S. Navy Chief Petty Officer Patrick Gallaher, a Special Operations Independen... More

The Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command hosts an arrival

The Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command hosts an arrival

The Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command hosts an arrival ceremony to honor fallen U.S. personnel whose identifies remain unknown. The remains receiving full military honors represent losses associated with the Vie... More

A detail of Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA)

A detail of Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA)

A detail of Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) personnel transport a casket during a disinterment ceremony at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific, Honolulu, Hawaii, July 10, 2017. The remains wi... More

Military service members look on as the unidentified

Military service members look on as the unidentified

Military service members look on as the unidentified remains of a fallen American service member returns to U.S. soil during the Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command arrival ceremony Dec. 9, at Joint Base Pearl Har... More

U.S. Air Force Tech. Sgt. Tiffany Le, a linguist with

U.S. Air Force Tech. Sgt. Tiffany Le, a linguist with

U.S. Air Force Tech. Sgt. Tiffany Le, a linguist with the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA), salutes a casket carrying the remains of an unknown service member during a disinterment ceremony at the Natio... More

Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) augmentees,

Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) augmentees,

Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) augmentees, U.S. Air Force Staff Sgt. Randall Jackson, left, and U.S. Army Maj. Mohamad Umar, break up clumps of soil at an excavation site in Quang Binh province, Vietn... More

Members of the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA)

Members of the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA)

Members of the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) and U.S. Coast Guardsmen, assigned to the Coast Guard Cutter Joseph Gerczak (WPC 1126), carry a medical dummy to the designated evacuation point during a ... More

U.S. Army Capt. Brett Wheeler digs as Dr. Alec Christensen

U.S. Army Capt. Brett Wheeler digs as Dr. Alec Christensen

U.S. Army Capt. Brett Wheeler digs as Dr. Alec Christensen sets buckets of sand on a ledge to be sifted through in search of life support items, human remains and material evidence during a recovery mission in ... More

Divers, assigned to Mobile Diving and Salvage Unit

Divers, assigned to Mobile Diving and Salvage Unit

Divers, assigned to Mobile Diving and Salvage Unit 2, and the Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command, verify surface checks before conducting a recovery dive in the Gulf of the St. Lawrence. A 50-person recovery team... More

U.S. Navy Petty Officer 2nd Class Luis Valladaresmartinez,

U.S. Navy Petty Officer 2nd Class Luis Valladaresmartinez,

U.S. Navy Petty Officer 2nd Class Luis Valladaresmartinez, an augment working with the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA), screens soil while conducting an excavation in Laos, Nov. 13, 2018. The team was ... More

U.S. Marine Corps Gunnery Sgt. Carlos Villarreal, an

U.S. Marine Corps Gunnery Sgt. Carlos Villarreal, an

U.S. Marine Corps Gunnery Sgt. Carlos Villarreal, an explosive ordinance disposal (EOD) technician, temporarily assigned to the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA), digs in a rice paddy while conducting an... More

U.S. Army Capt. Jose Murillo, Defense POW/MIA Accounting

U.S. Army Capt. Jose Murillo, Defense POW/MIA Accounting

U.S. Army Capt. Jose Murillo, Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA), fills a bucket with dirt, June 11, 2016 in Xiangkhoang Province, Laos during search and recovery efforts to retrieve a U.S. Air Force pilo... More

A diver with Lam Hong Diving prepares to conduct a

A diver with Lam Hong Diving prepares to conduct a

A diver with Lam Hong Diving prepares to conduct a dive while supporting the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) on an underwater investigation of a potential aircraft crash site in the South China Sea nea... More

Service members, assigned to Mobile Diving and Salvage

Service members, assigned to Mobile Diving and Salvage

Service members, assigned to Mobile Diving and Salvage Unit 2, and the Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command, prepare to conduct an underwater recovery operation in the Gulf of the St. Lawrence. A 50-person recovery... More

Service members, assigned to Mobile Diving and Salvage

Service members, assigned to Mobile Diving and Salvage

Service members, assigned to Mobile Diving and Salvage Unit 2, and the Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command, prepare to conduct an underwater recovery operation in the Gulf of the St. Lawrence. A 50-person recovery... More

US Air Force STAFF Sergeant Jill Murphy (left foreground) and SSGT Collen Byerly (Center) from Mountain Home Air Force Base, Idaho, assist incoming military members at the Joint Processing Accountability Center (JPAC) area for the JOINT EXPEDITIONARY FORCE EXPERIMENT (JEFX) Exercise. Everyone involved in the exercise must inprocess threw the JPAC. Over a 1000 military and civilian members will be processed during the JEFX exercise at Nellis AFB, Nevada

US Air Force STAFF Sergeant Jill Murphy (left foreground) and SSGT Col...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Subject Operation/Series: JOINT EXPEDITIONARY FORCE EXPERIMENT (JEFX) Base: Nellis Air Force Base State: Nevada (NV) Country: United States Of America ... More

Forensic Anthropologist Elias Kontanis (white lab coat), Joint Prisoner of War/Missing in Action (POW/MIA) Accounting Command (JPAC), briefs international visitors from the U.S. Army War College on Feb. 15, 2007, at the JPAC Central Identification Laboratory (CIL), Hickam Air Force Base, Hawaii.  Mr. Kontanis is one of the scientists tasked with identifying the remains of Americans recovered from sites around the world.  The JPAC CIL is the largest forensic anthropology laboratory in the world.  (U.S. Army photo by CPL. Arthur Lagrimus) (Released)

Forensic Anthropologist Elias Kontanis (white lab coat), Joint Prisone...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Base: Hickam Air Force Base State: Hawaii (HI) Country: United States Of America (USA) Scene Camera Operator: CPL Arthur Lagrimus, USA Release Status:... More

A local worker clears a field while assisting the Defense

A local worker clears a field while assisting the Defense

A local worker clears a field while assisting the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) during a recovery mission in Nghe An province, Vietnam, Nov. 29, 2017. The mission of DPAA is to provide the fullest po... More

Robert "WeeGee" Smith, North South Polar's master mechanic,

Robert "WeeGee" Smith, North South Polar's master mechanic,

Robert "WeeGee" Smith, North South Polar's master mechanic, tests a hose fitting at the "hardware store" an area set aside for machinery parts and supplies at the dig site on a glacier near Koge Bay, Greenland,... More

U.S. Army Pfc. Shantilla Robinson (left front), U.S.

U.S. Army Pfc. Shantilla Robinson (left front), U.S.

U.S. Army Pfc. Shantilla Robinson (left front), U.S. Air Force Chief Master Sgt. Laura Noel (right front), U.S. Navy Petty Officer 3rd Class India Davis (back left) and U.S. Marine Cassie McDole (back right) es... More

Members of the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA)

Members of the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA)

Members of the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) excavate during a recovery mission to locate a missing Navy pilot. DPAA conducts global search, recovery and laboratory operations to identify unaccounted... More

U.S Marine Col. Michael Gann speaks during the Marine’s

U.S Marine Col. Michael Gann speaks during the Marine’s

U.S Marine Col. Michael Gann speaks during the Marine’s cake cutting ceremony for the 240th birthday of the Marine Corps at the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) Nov. 10, 2015 at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-... More

U.S. Air Force Staff Sgt. Chase McFeron, Defense POW/MIA

U.S. Air Force Staff Sgt. Chase McFeron, Defense POW/MIA

U.S. Air Force Staff Sgt. Chase McFeron, Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) explosive ordnance disposal technician augmentee, examines debris while searching for the remains of a lost U.S. service member ... More

U.S. Army Col. Ronald Wells, a physician assigned to

U.S. Army Col. Ronald Wells, a physician assigned to

U.S. Army Col. Ronald Wells, a physician assigned to the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA), examines patients during a recovery mission in the country of Laos, Nov. 8, 2018. Wells conducted humanitarian ... More

Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command recovery team members

Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command recovery team members

Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command recovery team members and Laotion workers dig and remove dirt from excavation site in Xepon, Lao People's Democratic Republic, Nov. 12, 2011. The team is searching for human rem... More

A joint honor detail carries a flag-draped transfer

A joint honor detail carries a flag-draped transfer

A joint honor detail carries a flag-draped transfer case from a C-17 to a bus during a Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command arrival ceremony at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, Hawaii. The transfer cases, which repr... More

A local worker from Nghe An province, Vietnam, takes

A local worker from Nghe An province, Vietnam, takes

A local worker from Nghe An province, Vietnam, takes a smoke break while assisting the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) during a recovery operation, Nov. 29, 2017. The mission of DPAA is to provide the ... More

More than 300 members of the 15th Wing, Pacific Air

More than 300 members of the 15th Wing, Pacific Air

More than 300 members of the 15th Wing, Pacific Air Forces Headquarters and Joint Prisoner of War/Missing in Action Accounting Command (JPAC) gathered for a ceremony marking the 40th anniversary of Operation Ho... More

Divers, assigned to Mobile Diving and Salvage Unit

Divers, assigned to Mobile Diving and Salvage Unit

Divers, assigned to Mobile Diving and Salvage Unit (MDSU) 2, and the Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command (JPAC), are lowered into the water to conduct a recovery dive in the Gulf of the St. Lawrence. A 50-person r... More

Divers, assigned to Mobile Diving and Salvage Unit

Divers, assigned to Mobile Diving and Salvage Unit

Divers, assigned to Mobile Diving and Salvage Unit 2, and the Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command, conduct underwater checks during a recovery operation in the Gulf of the St. Lawrence. A 50-person recovery team f... More

Navy Diver 1st Class Rob Roloff, assigned to Mobile

Navy Diver 1st Class Rob Roloff, assigned to Mobile

Navy Diver 1st Class Rob Roloff, assigned to Mobile Diving and Salvage Unit 2 prepares to conduct an underwater recovery dive in the Gulf of St. Lawrence. A 50-person recovery team from JPAC, MDSU 2, and civili... More

U.S. Army Staff Sgt. Kyle Goree, a communications specialist

U.S. Army Staff Sgt. Kyle Goree, a communications specialist

U.S. Army Staff Sgt. Kyle Goree, a communications specialist assigned to the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA), assists with screening operations during a recovery mission to find aircrew members of a U.... More

U.S. Army Sgt. Eric Dean, a combat engineer, and Army

U.S. Army Sgt. Eric Dean, a combat engineer, and Army

U.S. Army Sgt. Eric Dean, a combat engineer, and Army medic Sgt. 1st. Class Joshua Evans, both assigned to the Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command excavate a plane crash on a remote mountain site in the Independen... More

AIRMAN First Class Dave Garcia, Dyess Air Force Base, Texas, checks security clearances of incoming Temporary duty (TDY) personnel arriving at the Joint Processing Accountability Center (JPAC) during the Joint Expeditionary Force Experiment (JEFX) exercise at Nellis Air Force Base, Nevada

AIRMAN First Class Dave Garcia, Dyess Air Force Base, Texas, checks se...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Base: Nellis Air Force Base State: Nevada (NV) Country: United States Of America (USA) Scene Camera Operator: SSGT Wayne Clark, USAF Release Status: R... More

During a commemorative ceremony at Hickam Air Force Base (AFB) Hangar 35, inside a US Air Force (USAF) C-17A Globemaster III, members of a joint honor guard prepare to carry the remains believed to be of unaccounted-for Americans, recovered in Vietnam and Papua New Guinea. The remains will be taken to the Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command's Central Identification Laboratory (JPAC CIL) where they will attempt to positively identify the remains so they can be returned to their families

During a commemorative ceremony at Hickam Air Force Base (AFB) Hangar ...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Base: Hickam Air Force Base State: Hawaii (HI) Country: United States Of America (USA) Scene Camera Operator: Jerry "Monk" Banks, CIV, USAF Release St... More

U.S. military personnel from the Joint POW/ MIA Command (JPAC) Mortuary Affairs team Thai military personnel unload supplies from a C-130 Hercules cargo aircraft during Operation Unified Assistance at Phuket, Thailand, on Jan. 3, 2005. The JPAC team, that include doctors and forensic specialists, will help identify the bodies of westerners that were killed by the tsunami here. More than 18,000 U.S. military personnel are providing humanitarian assistance in Southwest Asia after a 9.0 magnitude earthquake on Dec. 26, 2004, triggered devastating tsunamis that killed over 250,000 people in the region. (USAF PHOTO by TECH. SGT. Cohen A. Young) (Released)

U.S. military personnel from the Joint POW/ MIA Command (JPAC) Mortuar...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Base: Phuket Country: Thailand (THA) Scene Camera Operator: SSGT Cohen A. Young, USAF Release Status: Released to Public Combined Military Service Digi... More

Hawaii - JPAC operations

Hawaii - JPAC operations

Gunnery Sgt. Bryon Bebout, assigned to the Joint Prisoner of War/Missing in Action Accounting Command (JPAC), observes wreckage from a B-24 Liberator aircraft during excavation operations in Madang Province. Be... More

Members of the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA)

Members of the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA)

Members of the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) march down the ramp of a C-17 Globemaster III at the airport in Mandalay, Myanmar to conduct a repatriation ceremony for the remains of a service member m... More

U.S. Navy Divers assigned to Mobile Diving and Salvage

U.S. Navy Divers assigned to Mobile Diving and Salvage

U.S. Navy Divers assigned to Mobile Diving and Salvage Unit (MDSU) 1 prepare for a dive while conducting underwater recovery operations with the Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command (JPAC). Both JPAC and MDSU-1 are... More

Members of Lam Hong Diving brief local officials and

Members of Lam Hong Diving brief local officials and

Members of Lam Hong Diving brief local officials and members of the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) on current operations being conducted in the South China Sea near Da Nang, Vietnam, Aug. 16, 2017. Fo... More

Tea cups wait till be filled for a recovery team prior

Tea cups wait till be filled for a recovery team prior

Tea cups wait till be filled for a recovery team prior to departing to a Joint POW/ MIA Accounting Command excavation site in Guangdong province, People's Republic of China. The mission of JPAC is to achieve th... More

U.S. Marine Corps Gunnery Sgt. Carlos Villarreal, an

U.S. Marine Corps Gunnery Sgt. Carlos Villarreal, an

U.S. Marine Corps Gunnery Sgt. Carlos Villarreal, an explosive ordinance disposal (EOD) technician temporarily assigned to the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA), scans soil for metal content while conduc... More

Local workers assist the Defense POW/MIA Accounting

Local workers assist the Defense POW/MIA Accounting

Local workers assist the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) with screening operations during a recovery mission to find aircrew members of a U.S. Army Air Corps B-25G which crashed in Myanmar during WWII.... More

During a commemorative ceremony at Hickam Air Force Base (AFB) Hangar 35, inside a US Air Force (USAF) C-17A Globemaster III, members of a joint honor guard prepare to carry the remains believed to be of unaccounted-for Americans, recovered in Vietnam and Papua New Guinea. The remains will be taken to the Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command's Central Identification Laboratory (JPAC CIL) where they will attempt to positively identify the remains so they can be returned to their families

During a commemorative ceremony at Hickam Air Force Base (AFB) Hangar ...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Base: Hickam Air Force Base State: Hawaii (HI) Country: United States Of America (USA) Scene Camera Operator: Jerry "Monk" Banks, CIV, USAF Release St... More

During a commemorative ceremony at Hickam Air Force Base (AFB) Hangar 35, inside a US Air Force (USAF) C-17A Globemaster III, members of a joint honor guard prepare to carry the remains believed to be of unaccounted-for Americans, recovered in Vietnam and Papua New Guinea. The remains will be taken to the Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command's Central Identification Laboratory (JPAC CIL) where they will attempt to positively identify the remains so they can be returned to their families

During a commemorative ceremony at Hickam Air Force Base (AFB) Hangar ...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Base: Hickam Air Force Base State: Hawaii (HI) Country: United States Of America (USA) Scene Camera Operator: Jerry "Monk" Banks, CIV, USAF Release St... More

US Army (USA) SPECIALIST Fourth Class (SPC) Eric D. Gould, crewchief, UH-60 Black Hawk (Blackhawk) helicopter, performs a pre-flight check before winch/hoist training at Wheeler Army Airfield (AAF), Hawaii (HI). Soldiers from the 68th Medical Company (Air Ambulance) (MED CO (AA)), 25th Infantry Division (ID) (Light), are helping guide members of JPAC (Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command) through hoist training and familiarization before their next recovery mission to Laos. The JPAC mission is to achieve the fullest possible accounting of all Americans missing as a result of our nation's previous conflicts

US Army (USA) SPECIALIST Fourth Class (SPC) Eric D. Gould, crewchief, ...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Base: Wheeler Army Air Field State: Hawaii (HI) Country: United States Of America (USA) Scene Camera Operator: SSGT Derrick C. Goode, USAF Release Sta... More

Members of the U.S. Navy Honor Guard conduct a repatriation

Members of the U.S. Navy Honor Guard conduct a repatriation

Members of the U.S. Navy Honor Guard conduct a repatriation ceremony for Fireman First Class Charles Casto at the National Memorial of the Pacific, Honolulu, Hawaii, Sept. 14, 2017. Casto, recently identified b... More

Gilbert Camp District, The Commonwealth of the Solomon

Gilbert Camp District, The Commonwealth of the Solomon

Gilbert Camp District, The Commonwealth of the Solomon Islands (Nov. 28, 2013) – A broken piece of wing from a crashed World War II aircraft lies exposed from the efforts of a recovery team from the Joint POW/M... More

Lucio Sada Sanico (right), an Army veteran of World

Lucio Sada Sanico (right), an Army veteran of World

Lucio Sada Sanico (right), an Army veteran of World War II and the Korean War, from Honolulu, converses with a fellow visitor following a National Prisoner of War and Missing in Action Recognition Day ceremony ... More

Divers with Lam Hong Diving descend into the South

Divers with Lam Hong Diving descend into the South

Divers with Lam Hong Diving descend into the South China Sea near Da Nang, Vietnam while conducting underwater investigations with the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA), Aug. 22, 2017. For the first time... More

United States Marine Corps Brigadier General Richard

United States Marine Corps Brigadier General Richard

United States Marine Corps Brigadier General Richard L. Simcock II, Deputy Commanding General, U.S. Marine Forces, Pacific, speaks with service members from various units under U.S. Pacific Command after a Join... More

Divers, assigned to Mobile Diving and Salvage Unit

Divers, assigned to Mobile Diving and Salvage Unit

Divers, assigned to Mobile Diving and Salvage Unit (MDSU) 2, and the Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command (JPAC), prepare to conduct a recovery dive in the Gulf of the St. Lawrence. A 50-person recovery team from J... More

Hugh Tuller, an anthropologist with the Defense POW/MIA

Hugh Tuller, an anthropologist with the Defense POW/MIA

Hugh Tuller, an anthropologist with the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA), examines soil for possible aircraft wreckage during a recovery mission in Nghe An province, Vietnam, Nov. 29, 2017. The mission ... More

STAFF Sergeant William Spencer, Non-Comissioned Officer in Charge (NCOIC) of the Joint Processing Accountability Center (JPAC) from Nellis Air Force Base, Nevada, conducts Web-based Environment Manning Document On Line Accountability (WEMDOLA) training to Temporary Duty (TDY) Information Management personnel during a Joint Expeditionary Force Experiment (JEFX) at Nellis Air Force Base, Nevada

STAFF Sergeant William Spencer, Non-Comissioned Officer in Charge (NCO...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Base: Nellis Air Force Base State: Nevada (NV) Country: United States Of America (USA) Scene Camera Operator: SSGT Wayne Clark, USAF Release Status: R... More

During a commemorative ceremony at Hickam Air Force Base (AFB) Hangar 35, inside a US Air Force (USAF) C-17A Globemaster III, members of a joint honor guard prepare to carry the remains believed to be of unaccounted-for Americans, recovered in Vietnam and Papua New Guinea. The remains will be taken to the Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command's Central Identification Laboratory (JPAC CIL) where they will attempt to positively identify the remains so they can be returned to their families

During a commemorative ceremony at Hickam Air Force Base (AFB) Hangar ...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Base: Hickam Air Force Base State: Hawaii (HI) Country: United States Of America (USA) Scene Camera Operator: Jerry "Monk" Banks, CIV, USAF Release St... More

Zac Brown, lead vocalist of the Zac Brown Band performs

Zac Brown, lead vocalist of the Zac Brown Band performs

Zac Brown, lead vocalist of the Zac Brown Band performs live in Washington, Nov. 11, 2014. Brown and other entertainers perform live at the Concert for Valor to celebrate Veterans Day. (U.S. Marine Corps photo... More

Navy Diver 3rd Class James Lindley (right) and ND2

Navy Diver 3rd Class James Lindley (right) and ND2

Navy Diver 3rd Class James Lindley (right) and ND2 Octavio Alvarez with Mobile Diving and Salvage Unit 2, descend from rescue and salvage ship USNS Grasp (T-ARS 51) to a Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency excava... More

Marine Staff Sgt. Kurt Witt, explosive ordinance device

Marine Staff Sgt. Kurt Witt, explosive ordinance device

Marine Staff Sgt. Kurt Witt, explosive ordinance device technician, of the Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command looks throught a strainer to see if he can find remains of a service member from WWII believed to have... More

BAN NAHAN, THE PEOPLE’S REPUBLIC OF LAOS (March 16,

BAN NAHAN, THE PEOPLE’S REPUBLIC OF LAOS (March 16,

BAN NAHAN, THE PEOPLE’S REPUBLIC OF LAOS (March 16, 2013) U.S. Air Force Master Sgt. James Jack, medic for an investigation team with the Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command (JPAC), administers some medical aid to... More

Members of the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA)

Members of the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA)

Members of the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) screen for possible evidence during a recovery mission to locate a missing Navy pilot. DPAA conducts global search, recovery and laboratory operations to ... More

SON THUY, VIETNAM (Aug. 24, 2013) – A Vietnamese woman

SON THUY, VIETNAM (Aug. 24, 2013) – A Vietnamese woman

SON THUY, VIETNAM (Aug. 24, 2013) – A Vietnamese woman laughs as she assists members of the Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command (JPAC) in their mission to locate the remains of fallen Americans. Though a somber mi... More

Army Sgt. 1st Class Darwin Delarna digs in a  steeply

Army Sgt. 1st Class Darwin Delarna digs in a steeply

Army Sgt. 1st Class Darwin Delarna digs in a steeply sloped 4-by-4 meter unit of a Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) excavation site looking for evidence of American Service Members missing in action at... More

United States Air Force Major General Kelly K. McKeague,

United States Air Force Major General Kelly K. McKeague,

United States Air Force Major General Kelly K. McKeague, Commander, Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command speaks with service members from various units under U.S. Pacific Command after a repatriation ceremony on No... More

A Vietnamese local assists the Defense POW/MIA Accounting

A Vietnamese local assists the Defense POW/MIA Accounting

A Vietnamese local assists the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) during a recovery mission in Nghe An province, Vietnam, Nov. 27, 2017. The mission of DPAA is to provide the fullest possible accounting f... More

Local workers assist the Defense POW/MIA Accounting

Local workers assist the Defense POW/MIA Accounting

Local workers assist the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) with screening operations during a recovery mission to find aircrew members of a U.S. Army Air Corps B-25G which crashed in Myanmar during WWII.... More

United States Marines salute during the National Anthem

United States Marines salute during the National Anthem

United States Marines salute during the National Anthem at the Marine’s cake cutting ceremony for the 240th birthday of the Marine Corps at the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) Nov. 10, 2015 at Joint Ba... More

A detail of personnel assigned to the Defense POW/MIA

A detail of personnel assigned to the Defense POW/MIA

A detail of personnel assigned to the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) conduct a dignified transfer for what may be the remains of U.S. Service members that have been classified as missing in action fro... More

Navy divers assigned to Mobile Diving and Salvage Unit

Navy divers assigned to Mobile Diving and Salvage Unit

Navy divers assigned to Mobile Diving and Salvage Unit 2, Company 4, prepare to be lowered into the water as they conduct an underwater recovery operation in the Mediterranean Sea in search of an unaccounted-fo... More

U.S. Navy Hospital Corpsman 2nd Class Thomas Jorgensen,

U.S. Navy Hospital Corpsman 2nd Class Thomas Jorgensen,

U.S. Navy Hospital Corpsman 2nd Class Thomas Jorgensen, Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) recovery team augmentee, grabs a bucket of soil at an excavation site in Quang Binh province, Vietnam, Aug. 12, 2... More

Joint POW/MIA Personnel Accounting Command forensic

Joint POW/MIA Personnel Accounting Command forensic

Joint POW/MIA Personnel Accounting Command forensic anthropologist Mindy Simonson uses a hand-held compass to mark radial lines from a datum marker to determine where a series of flags will be placed, on a glac... More

Local Vietnamese men and team members from the Joint

Local Vietnamese men and team members from the Joint

Local Vietnamese men and team members from the Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command use their hands to remove sediment from a stream bed in Binh Dinh province, Vietnam, March 14, 2012. The sediment will be screened... More

U.S. Army Sgt. Nicholas Cazel, (left) and U.S. Navy

U.S. Army Sgt. Nicholas Cazel, (left) and U.S. Navy

U.S. Army Sgt. Nicholas Cazel, (left) and U.S. Navy Petty Officer 2nd Class Tyler Nilsson, members of a recovery team of the Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command, discover a second possible turbine while excavating... More

Divers, assigned to Mobile Diving and Salvage Unit

Divers, assigned to Mobile Diving and Salvage Unit

Divers, assigned to Mobile Diving and Salvage Unit 2, and the Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command, are lowered into the water to conduct a recovery dive in the Gulf of the St. Lawrence. A 50-person recovery team f... More

COLONY GLACIER, Alaska (June 30, 2013) – U.S. Army

COLONY GLACIER, Alaska (June 30, 2013) – U.S. Army

COLONY GLACIER, Alaska (June 30, 2013) – U.S. Army Staff Sgt. Alfonso Gacusan leads the way as members of a specialized recovery team with the Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command disembark a UH-60 Black Hawk so th... More

U.S Marine Col. Michael Gann speaks during the Marine’s

U.S Marine Col. Michael Gann speaks during the Marine’s

U.S Marine Col. Michael Gann speaks during the Marine’s cake cutting ceremony for the 240th birthday of the Marine Corps at Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) Nov. 10, 2015 at Joint Base Pearl Harbor- Hic... More

Expedition team members Nick Bratton, back row, Joe

Expedition team members Nick Bratton, back row, Joe

Expedition team members Nick Bratton, back row, Joe Tuttle, Laurel Freas, Mindy Simonson, Frank Marley, 2nd row, Mitch Zuckoff, Jaana Gustafsson, WeeGee Smith, John Bradley, Lt. Cmdr. Rob Tucker, front row, Isa... More

Local Vietnamese men assisting the Joint POW/MIA Accounting

Local Vietnamese men assisting the Joint POW/MIA Accounting

Local Vietnamese men assisting the Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command and the Vietnam Office for Seeking Missing Persons, use shovels to remove sediment from a stream bed in Binh Dinh province, Vietnam, March 15,... More

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