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U.S. service members assigned to a Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) recovery team performs excavation operations in Houaphan province, Laos, Feb. 23, 2019. The team deployed to the area in support of DPAA's mission to provide the fullest possible accounting of our missing personnel to their families and the nation by searching for the remains of service members lost during the Vietnam War.