U.S. Marine Corps Sgt. Wayne Hansen, a photographer
U.S. Marine Corps Sgt. Wayne Hansen, a photographer and communication technician with Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command, sets up a communications system at a remote location in Xepon, Lao People's Democratic Rep... More
A Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command recovery team outlines
A Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command recovery team outlines an excavated crash site with white engineer tape in preparation to take final site photos. The specialized 9-man team conducted operations on site for 3... More
U.S. Army Captain Brett Wheeler (left), a team leader
U.S. Army Captain Brett Wheeler (left), a team leader for the Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command, has help from U.S. Navy Chief Petty Officer Patrick Gallaher, a Special Operations Independent Duty Corpsman, to p... More
Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command team members conduct
Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command team members conduct recovery operations at a remote mountain location with the help of local villagers. The ultimate mission of JPAC, and all the agencies involved, is to achie... More
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
Ambassador to the Lao People's Democratic Republic
Ambassador to the Lao People's Democratic Republic Karen B. Stewart, (left) is briefed by Recovery Leader Kelley Esh during a visit to a Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command recovery site in southern Laos. Stewart ... More
Dr. Alec Christensen, a Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command
Dr. Alec Christensen, a Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command anthropologist and recovery leader, takes measurements while drawing a soil profile during a recovery mission in Xepon, Lao People's Democratic Republic,... More
U.S. Navy Petty Officer 2nd Class Tyler Nilsson, an
U.S. Navy Petty Officer 2nd Class Tyler Nilsson, an Explosives Ordnance Disposal technician temporarily assigned to the Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command, examines a large piece of wreckage discovered during the... More
U.S. Army Sgt. 1st Class Borys Tsybulin, an explosive
U.S. Army Sgt. 1st Class Borys Tsybulin, an explosive ordnance technician augmented to the Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command, loads a wheelbarrow with dirt to be taken and sifted through in search of human remai... More
Recovery team members assigned to the Joint POW/MIA
Recovery team members assigned to the Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command, and a pilot with Helicopters New Zealand examine a possible turbine discovered during the day's excavation. The ultimate mission of JPAC, ... More
U.S. Navy Chief Petty Officer Patrick Gallaher, a Special
U.S. Navy Chief Petty Officer Patrick Gallaher, a Special Operations Independent Duty Corpsman, sifts through dirt at a wet-screening station while looking for human remains, material evidence and life support ... More
Recovery team members assigned to the Joint POW/MIA
Recovery team members assigned to the Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command, discover a second possible turbine while excavating the site of an aircraft crash. The ultimate mission of JPAC, and all the agencies invo... More
U.S. Air Force Tech. Sgt. Daniel Rosas, a Joint POW/MIA
U.S. Air Force Tech. Sgt. Daniel Rosas, a Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command life support investigator, and a Laotion worker sift through soil in search of human remains, life support items and material evidence ... More
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
A Laoation worker watches as Joint POW/MIA Accounting
A Laoation worker watches as Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command recovery team members sift through dirt. JPAC is excavating three different sites in Laos in search of Americans missing as a result of our nations ... More
U.S. Navy Petty Officer 2nd Class Tyler Nilsson, an
U.S. Navy Petty Officer 2nd Class Tyler Nilsson, an Explosives Ordnance Disposal technician augmented to a small but specialized Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command recovery team, takes the GPS coordinates of the ... More
A local villager and her child observe a Joint POW/MIA
A local villager and her child observe a Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command recovery site as team members excavate a remote mountainous site. The specialized recovery team deployed out of Joint Base Pearl Harbor-... More
Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command recovery team members
Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command recovery team members and Laotion workers sift through soil in search of material evidence, life support items and human remains to help identify service members lost during the... More
U.S. Army Sgt. 1st Class Domingo Chavez and Staff Sgt.
U.S. Army Sgt. 1st Class Domingo Chavez and Staff Sgt. Richard DeArmas, both assigned to recovery team at Detachment Four, Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command, take a moment to fold a POW/MIA flag on the recovery ... More
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
Dr. Alec Christensen, an anthropologist with the Joint
Dr. Alec Christensen, an anthropologist with the Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command, studies the dirt wall of a unit dug in efforts to find human remains, life support items and material evidence during a recover... More
U.S. Navy Chief Petty Officer Patrick Gallaher, a special
U.S. Navy Chief Petty Officer Patrick Gallaher, a special operations independent duty corpsman, loads a bucket with sand for U.S. Air Force Tech. Sgt. Daniel Rosas, a life support investigator, to lift out of t... More
Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command recovery team members
Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command recovery team members and Laotion workers dig and remove dirt from a two meter deep hole in Xepon, Lao People's Democratic Republic, Nov. 12, 2011. The team is searching for hum... More
U.S. Navy Chief Petty Officer Pat Gallaher, a special
U.S. Navy Chief Petty Officer Pat Gallaher, a special oOperations independent duty corpsman, loads a bucket up with dirt to be sifted through for human remains, material evidence and life support items during a... More
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
Dr. Alec Christensen, a Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command
Dr. Alec Christensen, a Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command recovery leader/anthropologist, cleans the floor of a four meter deep hole so it can be photographically documented in Xepon, Lao People's Democratic Rep... More
U.S. Army Sgt. 1st Class Borys Tsybulin, an explosive
U.S. Army Sgt. 1st Class Borys Tsybulin, an explosive ordnance technician augmented to the Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command, uses a metal detector to scan the Nam Kok river bed for possible unexploded ordnance,... More
U.S. Army Sgt. 1st Class Borys Tsybulin, an explosive
U.S. Army Sgt. 1st Class Borys Tsybulin, an explosive ordnance technician augmented to the Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command, searches a river bed for possible unexploded ordnance, material evidence, human remai... More