US Navy 110628-N-HG891-002 Chief Petty Officer Jerrad Monagan, assigned to the Joint Prisoner of War-Missing in Action Accounting Command (JPAC)

KHAMMOUAN PROVINCE, Laos (June 28, 2011) Chief Petty Officer Jerrad Monagan, assigned to the Joint Prisoner of War/Missing in Action Accounting Command (JPAC), 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 Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Nina Hughes/Released)