Chief Petty Officer Jerrad Monagan, assigned to the

Chief Petty Officer Jerrad Monagan, assigned to the Joint Prisoner of War/Missing in Action Accounting Command, screens excavated dirt for evidence with a local Laos worker in Khammouan, Laos. Monagan is part of an 11-person team from Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, Hawaii, on a 35-day mission to search for evidence of two Americans lost in the Vietnam War. The mission of JPAC is to achieve the fullest possible accounting of all Americans missing as a result of our nation's past conflicts. (U.S. Navy photo by Petty Officer 3rd Class Nina Hughes)